Cyber Operations Analyst

at  SAIC

Job ID: 2414790
Location: BELTSVILLE, MD, US
Date Posted: 2024-11-15
Category: Cyber
Subcategory: Cybersecurity Ops
Schedule: Full-time
Shift: Day Job
Travel: Yes, 25 % of the Time
Minimum Clearance Required: Secret
Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: Top Secret
Potential for Remote Work: No
Description
SAIC is seeking a highly motivated Cyber Operations Analyst. The successful candidate will provide support to the Cybersecurity Integrity Center (CIC) in the Department of State Bureau of Diplomatic Technology (DT). Duties are in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area (30% in downtown D.C; 70% in Beltsville, MD). The CIC supports cybersecurity monitoring, threat analysis, incident response, and infrastructure remediation within and across all of the State Department’s information technology (IT) infrastructure. The CIC coordinates and collaborates with other State Department bureaus as well as other organizations within the Federal Government, and commercial partners.

REQUIRED EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE:

• Bachelors and one (1) years or more experience; may accept addition experience in lieu of degree.
• Expertise in identifying, capturing, containing, and reporting on malware infections.
• Previously designed incident response for cloud service models.
• Experience with performing damage assessments.
• Ability to recognize and categorize types of vulnerabilities and associated attacks.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Utilize in-depth knowledge of cyber capabilities and the Cybersecurity Integrity Center (CIC) process to identify, track, and resolve issues affecting training, exercises, and daily operations.
• May provide crisis action and deliberate planning support for offensive and defensive operations.
• Ensure exercise activities adhere to customer exercise plans, policies, and procedures to establish overall objectives, priorities and plans for the joint exercise program, assuring focus on issues and challenges critical to pursuit of cyberspace operations.
• Extensive experience with Life Cycle and Operational Planning process is required to ensure appropriate recommendations to Cybersecurity Integrity Center (CIC) authorities and resources for applicable staff elements.
• Other duties may include:
• Synchronizing plans and requirements with major exercises;
• Reviewing and evaluating cyber policy directives/documents and issue papers;
• Assisting customers with identifying and developing requirements;
• Providing the technical research analysis and recommendations to develop cyberspace courses of actions, tactics, techniques and procedures in order to support cyberspace operations.
• In addition, planners must apply analytical methodologies to assess measures of performance for operation scenarios, develop documents such as after action reports, lessons observed and learned, as well as results and conclusions.
• Frequent use and application of technical standards, principles, theories, concepts and techniques.
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