CND Countermeasures Specialist
Company: Leidos Inc
Location: Alexandria
Posted on: May 26, 2023
Job Description:
Description Job Description:At Leidos, we deliver innovative
solutions through the efforts of our diverse and talented people
who are dedicated to our customers' success. We empower our teams,
contribute to our communities, and operate sustainable practices.
Everything we do is built on a commitment to do the right thing for
our customers, our people, and our community. Our Mission, Vision,
and Values guide the way we do business. Employees enjoy career
enrichment opportunities available through mobility and development
and experience rewarding relationships with supportive supervisors
and talented colleagues and customers. Your most important work is
ahead.If this sounds like the kind of environment where you can
thrive, keep reading!The CND Countermeasures Specialist will be a
multi-functional individual with strong technical skills including
but not limited to the following core countermeasure concepts and
capabilities: attended/unattended isolation and containment of
detected/signaled cyber threats; defensive configurations which
delay, deflect, re-direct, block or limit lateral movement,
privilege escalation, data or system compromise.Work hours are
flexible though need to be within the customer's core business
hours of 0600-1800. On-call support/hours may be required.Primary
Responsibilities
- Serve as a technical advisor for CND Countermeasure
services.
- Work in a team of cyber professionals responsible for
enterprise-wide cybersecurity countermeasures capability for
customer information systems and networks on all security
domains.
- Serve as part of a team in the design, implementation,
integration and operational support of cybersecurity
countermeasures capabilities
- Contribute to the operational design and architecture to
integrate countermeasures with the object of identifying defending,
deflecting, delaying and responding to adversarial activities
- Collaborate with security architecture and engineering to
implement and optimize countermeasure capabilities
- Guide defensive countermeasures (aligned with Detect and IR
workflows) to detect and contain malicious actors/activities
present in the enterprise service fabric and/or during incident
response
- Design and implement innovative countermeasure approaches and
tactics
- Integrate countermeasure signals and telemetry into Continuous
Diagnostics and Monitoring activities of the Security Operations
Center (SOC)
- Respond to identified network cyber incidents; provides
analysis, isolation and containment through countermeasure
protocols
- Assist in the operations and management of design, test,
implement, deploy, maintain, and administer the infrastructure
systems supporting countermeasure functions, integrations and
capabilities
- Utilize countermeasure telemetry to develop adversarial pattern
recognition to derive predictive indicators of compromise in
support of defensive cyber operations
- Model offensive cyber patterns in the design and testing of
countermeasure effectivenessBasic Qualifications
- Established technical knowledge with the utilization,
configuration, and implementation of industry standard cyber
defense capabilities including but not limited to web content
filters, email security capabilities, IDS, IPS, HBSS, SEIM, DNS
security practices, advanced log analysis, network monitoring,
network flow analysis, packet capture analysis, network proxies,
firewalls, anti-virus capabilities, Linux/UNIX command line, and
access control lists.
- Demonstrated understanding of the life cycle of network
threats, attacks, attack vectors and methods of exploitation with
an understanding of intrusion set tactics, techniques and
procedures (TTPs)
- Experience in cybersecurity incident response, including
applying lessons learned to implementing improved
countermeasures.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills. Ability to
communicate and work effectively with other contractors and
Government civilians.
- Ability to train and mentor junior staff members.
- Highly organized with strong troubleshooting and
problem-solving skills
- Ability to work independently and as a team member under tight
deadlines with changing priorities.Security Clearance
- TS/SCI with CI Poly required for Position or TS/SCI and
willingness to get a poly.
- US Citizenship is required due to the nature of the government
contracts we support.Certifications
- DoD 8570 IAT Level II equivalent certification (with continuing
education where applicable) (Security+, CCNA Security, CSA+, GICSP,
GSEC, SSCP) or higher
- DoDD 8140/DoD 8570.01M Computing Environment certification
- GIAC Defending Advanced Threats (GDAT) or equivalent [GIAC
Certified Incident Handler (GCIH), GIAC Network Forensic Analyst
(GNFA), GIAC Defensible Security Architecture (GDSA), GIAC Exploit
Researcher and Advanced Penetration Tester (GXPN), GIAC Penetration
Tester (GPEN)] within 180 days of contract start
- DoD 8570 CND- Infrastructure Support/CSSP Infrastructure
Support equivalent certification (CEH, CSA+, GICSP, SSCP) within
180 days of contract startEducation/Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information
Technology, Cybersecurity, or related field. Additional experience
may be considered in lieu of degree.
- A minimum of 12+ years of relevant professional
experience.Preferred Qualifications:
- Scripting and programming experience
- Knowledge of cyber defense and vulnerability assessment tools
and their capabilities
- Familiarity or experience in Intelligence Driven Defense, Cyber
Kill Chain methodology, and/or MITRE ATT&CK framework.
- Advanced Splunk CertificationsPay Range:Pay Range $118,300.00 -
$182,000.00 - $245,700.00The Leidos pay range for this job level is
a general guideline onlyand not a guarantee of compensation or
salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include
(but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education,
experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal
equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement
(if any), or other law.
Keywords: Leidos Inc, Alexandria , CND Countermeasures Specialist, Other , Alexandria, Virginia
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