Cyber Security Operations Specialist III - CSOC Tier 3

Time Type: Full time, Exempt

Minimum Clearance Required to Start: Top Secret/SCI

Employee Type: Regular

Percentage of Travel Required: 0%

Type of Travel: None

Position Overview

As the Senior Cyber Security Operations Specialist, you will be providing CSOC Tier 3 services. This involves 24x7x365 coordination, execution, and implementation of all actions required for the containment, eradication, and recovery measures for events and incidents. CSOC Tier 3 services include malware and implant analysis and forensic artifact handling and analysis.

More About the Role

Coordinate and implement tasks, performing analysis, and building/documenting response activities required during cyber security incident response, including but not limited to actions such as implementing containment measures, IP blocks, domain blocks, and disabling user accounts on the direction of the Government.

Coordinate with the Security and Installations Directorate (SI) Office of Counterintelligence (SIC), and Insider Threat Office, in addition to other law enforcement and counterintelligence personnel as required to perform advanced investigation and triage of incidents.

Collaborate with appropriate authorities in the production of security incident reports; categorize incidents and events.

Coordinate with other contracts, organizations, activities, and other services as appropriate to ensure incidents are properly reported, contained, and eradicated.

Coordinate with other contracts, organizations, activities, and other services to de-conflict blue/red team activity with open incidents/events.

Coordinate with other contracts, organizations, activities, and services to ensure customer recovers from an incident/event.

Build timelines, documents, briefings, and other products as required to inform stakeholders of incident response actions, analysis, and the impact of both adversary activity and blue force response actions.

Document actions taken and analysis in the authorized ticketing system to a level of detail where the actions taken and analysis are capable of being systematically reconstructed.

With approval from the Government – Develop, generate and update reports in the Joint Incident Management System (JIMS), Incident Case Management System (ICMS), and/or other authorized reporting systems as directed.

You’ll Bring These Qualifications

TS/SCI clearance (current). Selected candidates must be able to successfully pass and maintain a Government polygraph (post-hire requirement).

IAT Level II Certification (current) that is compliant with DoD 8140.01 and DoD 8570.01-M.

Within Six (6) months of the hire date, the employee must be able to obtain CSSP Incident Responder certification compliant with DoD 8140.01 and DoD 8570.01-M.

Bachelor's degree (Engineering, Computer Science or related field) and Six (6) years of relative work experience. Additional experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.

Work Environment

Professional Office Environment: Must be able to sit at a desktop or laptop computer for extended periods of time.

Physical Demands

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, talk, hear, and use hands and fingers to operate a computer and telephone.

Must be able to communicate regularly via telephone and verbally present information to employees, customers, and outside vendors.

Expected Hours of Work

40 hours per week based on the customer’s core operating hours.

About RISA

In this time of rapid change, as technologies expand at lightning speed, RISA seeks to remain at the forefront - applying them in unique ways to address our customers’ challenges and providing our employees with engaging career opportunities. We seek professionals excited by a challenge and focused on assisting our customers to reach their goals. At RISA, our success comes from the talent and commitment of our employees. As a team, we share the challenges and rewards of providing valuable services to our customers. Come along for the journey and be part of our growth and success.

Benefits

RISA offers a comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental, and vision insurance; company-paid disability; life insurance; retirement savings plans: 401(k) and Roth; Paid Time Off; and 11 paid Federal Holidays.

RISA is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Full-Time