JOB DESCRIPTION:

Zachary Piper Solutions is seeking a SOC Analyst to join our team on-site in New Carrollton, MD to support the Cyber Threat Fusion Center (CFTC.) The role is focused on building and maintaining the back-end of the organizations’ security tools.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• 1-6+ Years of Cyber Security Experience
• Incident Handling Experience working in SOC/CIRT Environment
• Experience with Splunk Search Processing Language (SPL) to run queries
• Packet Capture (PCAP) Analysis
• Strong IT Fundamentals
• Strong Communication and Presentation Skills with the ability to follow policies, processes and procedures
• Ability to obtain IRS Public Trust

• Establishing normalized traffic and data flow baselines to identify anomalies; as well as developing technical theories based on threat intelligence.
• Identify techniques, tactics and procedures used by adversaries, and based on the behavior patterns identified by findings. Demonstrate detailed knowledge of threat vectors and how they translate to cyber security risks for federal government.
• Develop alerting criteria to improve the Incident Response capability. Identify and articulate events, configuration, and security bypass techniques for Windows and Linux.
• Utilize programming/scripting languages and log analysis/correlation techniques to identify existing threats that have made it through the network undetected. Given the massive amounts of data that the IRS houses, there is plenty of malicious code/persistent threats to hunt down.