SOC Analyst

Summary

Join UltraViolet Cyber's Federal Delivery Team as a SOC Analyst and contribute to a leading platform-enabled unified security operations company. Monitor, analyze, and respond to threats across a large-scale network infrastructure. Correlate and triage security alerts, hunt threats, manage custom alert rules, and produce incident response documentation. Support firewall, Active Directory, and Sentinel-based monitoring, with escalation responsibilities during emergencies. This is a remote position with monthly in-person meetings in Washington, DC. A Public Trust eligibility clearance is required.

Requirements

• Require 3–5 years of SOC analyst experience
• Proficiency in SIEM and EDR technologies, and practical knowledge of Microsoft Defender, Sentinel, Trellix, RSA NetWitness, and incident response playbooks
• Experience demonstrating strong analytical, troubleshooting and problem-solving skills for security information and event management
• Excellent communication skills, both written and oral
• Operational knowledge with types of vulnerability assessors that shall include vulnerability assessment tools, wireless network detection, and non-signature based discovery and case handling tools
• Experience with the following technologies: Intrusion Detection and Preventions Systems (IDS/IPS)
• Monitoring network security events in an Enterprise Environment
• Producing security event reports for management
• Producing security metric reports for management
• Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) systems
• Able to attend monthly in-person meetings in Washington, DC
• Clearance: Must be Public Trust eligible
• Hours: Full-time (40 hrs/week), standard eight-hour business schedule between the hours of 6:00am and 5:30pm, EST, Monday through Friday

Responsibilities

• Support with host and network analysis to determine compromise extent and provide mitigation support on compromised systems
• Validate and confirm critical security events and assess impact of the event
• Research and maintain information on current security threats and applying knowledge to the security capability
• Author intrusion detection signatures as well as other detection mechanisms and coordinate with Security Engineering to implement
• Collect information from digital devices as part of legal investigations. Create and report on program tasks
• Interface with the intelligence community in order to better develop and identify malicious activities and events that connect over time to form a pattern of attack
• Recover data like documents, photos and e-mails from computer hard drives and other data storage devices that have been deleted, damaged or otherwise manipulated
• Find evidence of illegal activity involving cybercrime offenses and examine computers that may have been involved in other types of crime
• Use expertise to protect computers from infiltration, determine how a computer was broken in to or recover lost files
• Use forensic tools and investigative methods to find specific electronic data, including Internet use history, word processing documents, images and other files
• Automate workflow processes via scripting with Python or similar
• Work with Cyber Threat Intel Team and maintaining threat indicator feeds
• Build and maintain client and stakeholder relationships
• Formulate and enforce work standards
• Complete projects/deliverables on time and with quality

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ YOE in general IT and Cybersecurity preferred
• Certified Forensic Computer Examiner (CFCE)
• Certified Hacking Forensic Investigator (CHFI)
• CompTIA Cybersecurity Analyst (CySA+)
• Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH)

Benefits

• 401(k), including an employer match of 100% of the first 3% contributed and 50% of the next 2% contributed
• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance (available on the 1st day of the month following your first day of employment)
• Group Term Life, Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability
• Voluntary Life, Hospital Indemnity, Accident, and/or Critical Illness
• Participation in the Discretionary Time Off (DTO) Program
• 11 Paid Holidays Annually