What are the responsibilities and job description for the Cyber Countermeasures Engineer position at By Light Professional IT Services LLC?
Company Overview
By Light is seeking a Cyber Countermeasures Engineer who's primary duty location is DISA Global Field Command (DGFC), Scott AFB, IL.
Responsibilities
- Provide direct mission support to government customers at Scott AFB, IL.
- Serve as the cyber countermeasure Subject Matter Expert for a new cyber capability.
- Work directly with customer and commercial vendor cyber fusion/threat analyst teams to develop effective countermeasures addressing a wide range of priority and/or emerging cyber threats.
- Ensure countermeasures are effective in supporting desired mission outcomes.
- Provide critical integration between customer and commercial vendors teams
- Analyze signatures (ex. YARA, Snort) in Cyber Threat Intelligence or DoD orders and assess new capability coverage for these threats
Required Experience/Qualifications
- 2 years of experience in cyber analyst role
- Experience conducting malware analysis
- Experience developing behavioral threat signatures, such as YARA rules
- Experience with cyber operations and cyber operation planning processes
- Understands malicious cyber actor TTPs to include initial access and command-and-control
- Understands how to use cyber security tools and data to conduct defensive cyber operations
- Understands cyber threats and cyber threat frameworks such as Cyber Kill Chain and MITRE ATT&CK framework
- Understands Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) and how to integrate CTI into defensive cyber operations
Preferred Experience/Qualifications
- Hands on SIEM experience, preferably with Splunk, to include configuration, query development, log review/analysis, and correlation of event data
- 5 years of experience in cyber analyst role, preferably supporting DGFC or JFHQ
- Experience with regex and signature development
- Experience with coding/scripting
- Cybersecurity certifications such as CISSP and/or GIAC certifications
- Splunk certifications
Special Requirements/Security Clearance
- Minimum Active Secret Clearance.
- Active TS and TS/SCI clearances are preferred
