Content Detection Engineer III

Summary

Join Agile Defense as a Content Detection Engineer III and contribute to our mission of bringing adaptive innovation to national security. This remote position requires an active DoD Top Secret SCI clearance and offers a salary range of $98,000-$147,000. You will proactively search for threats, analyze logs, and develop custom content within the SIEM. The role demands experience in incident detection and response, malware analysis, or forensics, along with specific skills in using various security tools. Agile Defense prioritizes its employees and fosters a positive and supportive work environment.

Requirements

• Relevant BS degree plus 8+ years of experience in incident detection & response, malware analysis, or forensics or Bachelors degree in related field
• Must have at least one of the following certifications: SANS GIAC: GCIA, GCIH, GCFA, GPEN, GWAPT, GCFE, GREM, GXPN, GMON, GISF, or GCIH; EC Council: CEH, CHFI, LPT, ECSA; ISC2: CCFP, CCSP, CISSP CERT CSIH; Offensive Security: OSCP, OSCE, OSWP and OSEE
• Experience with creating and implementing custom IOCs and IOAs in Crowdstrike
• Experience with triaging and investigating hosts using Crowdstrike
• Experienced with updating McAfee AV signatures
• Experience with creating and maintain custom Tanium packages for collecting artifacts for continuous monitoring
• Provide recommendations for tuning and/or triaging notable events
• Perform critical thinking and analysis to investigate cyber security alerts
• Analyze network traffic using enterprise tools (e.g. Full PCAP, Firewall, Proxy logs, IDS logs, etc)
• Collaborate with team members to analyze an alert or a threat
• Stay up to date with latest threats and familiar with APT and common TTPs
• Utilize OSINT to extrapolate data to pivot and identify malicious activity
• Have experience with dynamic malware analysis
• Have experience performing analysis of network traffic and correlating diverse security logs to perform recommendations for response
• Utilize the Cyber Kill Chain and synthesize the entire attack life cycle
• Review and provide feedback to junior analysts’ investigation
• Participate in discussions to make recommendations on improving SOC visibility or process
• Contribute to SOP development and updating
• Provide expert guidance and mentorship to junior analysts

Responsibilities

• Proactively search for threats
• Inspect traffic for anomalies and new malware patterns
• Investigate and analyze logs
• Provide analysis and response to alerts when escalated from junior analysts, and document activity in SOC investigations and Security Event Notifications (SENs)
• Develop custom content within the SIEM using advanced SPL language and data models) or other network security tools to detect threats and attacks against the department
• Participate in briefings to provide expert guidance on new threats and will act as an escalation point for M&A analysts
• Author reports and/or interface with customers for ad-hoc requests
• Participate in discussions to make recommendations on improving SOC visibility or process

Preferred Qualifications

• Provide expert content development in Splunk Enterprise Security using tstats and datamodels
• Utilize knowledge of latest threats and attack vectors to develop Splunk correlation rules for continuous monitoring
• Review logs to determine if relevant data is present to accelerate against datamodels to work with existing use cases
• Capture use cases from subscribers or other team members and develop correlation rules
• The ideal candidate is a self-motivated individual in pursuit of a career in cyber security
• Experienced with developing advanced correlation rules utilizing tstats and datamodels for cyber threat detection
• Experienced with creating and maintaining Splunk knowledge objects
• Experienced managing and maintaining Splunk data models
• Expertise in developing custom SPL using macros, lookups, etc and network security signatures such as SNORT and YARA
• Experience creating regex for pattern matching
• Implemented security methodologies and SOC processes
• Extensive knowledge about network ports and protocols (e.g. TCP/UDP, HTTP, ICMP, DNS, SMTP, etc)
• Experienced with network topologies and network security devices (e.g. Firewall, IDS/IPS, Proxy, DNS, WAF, etc)
• Hands-on experience utilizing network security tools (e.g. Sourcefire, Suricata, Netwitness, o365, FireEye, etc) and SIEM
• Experience in a scripting language (e.g. Python, Powershell, etc) and automating SOC processes/workflow
• Experience training and mentoring junior analysts
• Extensive knowledge of common end user and web application attacks and countermeasures against attacks
• Experience developing custom workflows within Splunk to streamline SOC processes
• Experience creating SOPs and providing guidance to junior analysts
• Ability to analyze new attacks and provide guidance to watch floor analysts on detection and response
• Knowledgeable of the various Intel Frameworks (e.g. Cyber Kill Chain, Diamond Model, MITRE ATT&CK, etc) and able to utilize it in their analysis workflow
• Experience with cloud (e.g. o365, Azure, AWS, etc) security monitoring and familiar with cloud threat landscape
• Knowledgeable of APT capabilities and be able to implement appropriate countermeasures

Benefits

Remote work