Visual Soft, Inc is seeking qualified candidates to work on our efforts with a Prime for their end customer, a federal agency.
Position: Lead SOC - Security Analyst - (US Citizenship is a MUST) - (4 days ONSITE and 1 day REMOTE at Present, however, it may go 100% ONSITE in the near future)
Location: Washington, DC, next to Union Station metro
Compensation: Based on certifications, education and experience, very competitive

JOB DESCRIPTION:

The Lead SOC Analyst has the primary responsibility of aggressively monitoring and responding to alerts triggered in the SIEM tool or requests for assistance from customers. The Lead SOC Analyst will use a variety of tools to investigate incidents and take immediate action or recommend a course of action to safeguard the U.S. Courts systems. The SOC Analyst works as Tier 2/3 support and will monitor Junior analyst’s requests for review before completing event notation to assure correctness in reviews. Events that require over 15 minutes of analysis are to be escalated to the Seniors on shift for analysis.

*PRIOR OR ONGOING EXPERIENCE (4 YRS) OF WORKING IN A SOC ENVIRONMENT IS A MUST.*

Please do ’not; apply if you do ’NOT’ have above professional experience.
A minimum of Four (4)+ years of network intrusion detection experience. Contractor must have the following skills: The ability to investigate and evaluate network traffic, and the ability to read and interpret log and sniffer packets, Wireshark. The ability to analyze data from a variety of sources over time and create a logical narrative of observed behavior, and the ability to communicate clearly both orally and in writing.

SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE:

Candidate will have a total IT experience of six (6) years and 4+ years in performing intrusion detection analytics working with the examination of logs and console events in the following working experience areas of; Splunk, examining Snort based IDS events, PCAP, web server log review, and working in a SIEM environment.
Years of Experience:5+ years
Education Requirement: High School diploma preferred, industry certifications are desired such as CEH or CISSP etc.,
Clearance requirement: U.S. Citizenship is required.

Please refer the Job description for details