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Cyber Countermeasures Engineer

By Light Professional IT Services
By Light Professional IT Services Salary
Scott, IL Full Time
POSTED ON 1/15/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 3/25/2025

Cyber Countermeasures Engineer

Job Locations

US-IL-Scott AFB

2024-9940

of Openings

Category

Cyber

Clearance

Tier 3 - Secret / ADP II

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
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