Req ID: 36409
Summary
CSSP SOC Analyst - Tier 1
Arlington, VA
Are you ready to enhance your skills and build your career in a rapidly evolving business climate? Are you looking for a career where professional development is embedded in your employer's core culture? If so, Chenega Military, Intelligence & Operations Support (MIOS) could be the place for you! Join our team of professionals who support large-scale government operations by leveraging cutting-edge technology and take your career to the next level!
The CSSP SOC Analyst - Tier 1 entails working in a Network Operations and Security Center NOSC where the team is responsible for monitoring security and health alerts for systems on 14 different networks. To be successful in this position, you need to be collaborative and willing to work within a team. While you will need to be a self-starter, completing tasks on your own, working together is critical in this role. You will be interfacing with the government and senior staff. Therefore, you should be articulate in your communications because your opinion matters. You will need to explain technical intricacies in a way that is easily understood.
Responsibilities
Security Monitoring & Alert Management: Continuously monitor system health and security alerts to detect potential threats in real time.
Incident Response & Forensic Analysis: Conduct forensic analysis of digital evidence to identify intrusion patterns, malicious actors, and attack vectors.
Threat Intelligence & Correlation: Correlate data from multiple sources (logs, threat feeds, network traffic) to identify emerging threats and attack trends.
Risk Assessment & Mitigation: Identify security risks, vulnerabilities, and exposures; recommend remediation strategies to prevent future incidents.
Interpret, analyze, and report all events and anomalies in accordance with computer network directives, including initiating, responding, and reporting discovered events.
Reporting & Compliance: Generate detailed incident reports and briefings for stakeholders, including executive summaries and technical deep dives.
Collaborate with federal agencies (CYBERCOM, NSA, FBI, DOJ, DHS) to review cybersecurity intelligence and align with national security protocols.
Process Improvement: Continuously refine SOC workflows, playbooks, and detection logic to adapt to evolving threats.
Responsible for performing correlation activities and trend analysis to discover attack patterns and assess the risks and potential exposure of assets, and develop and enhance correlation rules, logic, and analysis techniques for associating data.
Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
Associate degree from an accredited institution in cybersecurity, or 2+ years in cybersecurity roles demonstrating equivalent knowledge.
2+ years of overall demonstrated experience in cybersecurity, information assurance, or computer science.
1+ year of SOC-related experience.
Proficient in network traffic analysis using PCAP examination techniques.
Skilled in security monitoring using Splunk, including advanced search query development.
Experience investigating security alerts and participating in incident response procedures.
DoD Top Secret Clearance with SCI/ SAP eligibility is required.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
Strong customer service experience, as this position will require the candidate to engage with government leadership.
Ability to present ideas clearly through briefings, meetings, and interaction with leadership of different skill sets.
Ability to work under time constraints and adapt to changes in requirements and new projects.
Ability to assimilate information rapidly, motivated to self-study new requirements.
Demonstrated ability to analyze security alerts and make informed incident response decisions independently
Excellent communication and documentation skills, with strong organizational and collaborative skills.
Strong teamwork and engagement as a project team member.
How you'll grow
At Chenega MIOS, our professional development plan focuses on helping our team members at every level of their careers to identify and use their strengths to do their best work every day. From entry-level employees to senior leaders, we believe there's always room to learn.
We offer opportunities to help sharpen skills in addition to hands-on experience in the global, fast-changing business world. From on-the-job learning experiences to formal development programs, our professionals have a variety of opportunities to continue to grow throughout their careers.
Benefits
At Chenega MIOS, we know that great people make a great organization. We value our team members and offer them a broad range of benefits.
Learn more about what working at Chenega MIOS can mean for you.
Chenega MIOS's culture
Our positive and supportive culture encourages our team members to do their best work every day. We celebrate individuals by recognizing their uniqueness and offering them the flexibility to make daily choices that can help them be healthy, centered, confident, and aware. We offer well-being programs and continuously look for new ways to maintain a culture where we excel and lead healthy, happy lives.
Corporate citizenship
Chenega MIOS is led by a purpose to make an impact that matters. This purpose defines who we are and extends to relationships with our clients, our team members, and our communities. We believe that business has the power to inspire and transform. We focus on education, giving, skill-based volunteerism, and leadership to help drive positive social impact in our communities.
Learn more about Chenega's impact on the world.
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Tips from your Talent Acquisition Team
We want job seekers exploring opportunities at Chenega MIOS to feel prepared and confident. To help you with your research, we suggest you review the following links:
Chenega MIOS web site - www.chenegamios.com
Glassdoor - https://www.glassdoor.com/Overview/Working-at-Chenega-MIOS-EI_IE369514.11,23.htm
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/1472684/
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/chenegamios/
Chenega Corporation and family of companies is an EOE.
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