Cyber Data and Applications Lead

Huntsville, AL (ON-SITE/OFFICE)

ManTech is seeking a highly skilled and knowledgeable Cyber Data and Applications Lead. This position is located on customer site in Huntsville, AL.

The Cyber Data and Applications Lead is responsible for developing, operating, maintaining, and enhancing a suite of cybersecurity tools deployed across secure enclaves to support incident response, threat detection, and event monitoring, as well as integrating data from centralized and local system sources.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Create new applications, algorithms, and automation to optimize workflows and improve data analysis - responsible for program design, coding, testing, debugging, and documentation.
• Design, develop, deliver, and sustain new and existing cybersecurity technologies in support of the SOC and cyber intelligence groups.
• Ensure that security-related data is appropriately formatted and ingested into the SIEM for analysis.
• Maintain data ingestion configurations to collect and parse log and event data from various sources and various threat intelligence data and feeds into the SIEM.
• Create and optimize queries and rules to detect suspicious activities or patterns in the data in the SIEM platform.
• Maintain playbooks and automated responses within the SIEM.
• Develop reports and dashboards for compliance monitoring and reporting from SIEM data.
• Ensure that cyber tools and infrastructure remain operational, resilient, and adaptable to evolving threats.
• Collaborate to integrate security requirements into technical solutions and conduct ongoing research to incorporate emerging technologies, enhancing the organization's overall cybersecurity posture.
• Support Government personnel in the creation, modification, and documentation of all enhancements efforts, to include system design documents, standard operating procedures, operations and maintenance manuals/procedures, software development plans, and related documentation.
• Recommend and utilize the appropriate programming language for each component or workload based upon performance requirements, supportability, integration with existing components, maintainability, and other selection criteria deemed applicable.
• Ensure DevSecOps and CI/CD processes and SOPs for Agile (SAFe, Scrum, Kanban) and DevSecOps methods are documented and maintained.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree, preferably in IT, Cybersecurity, Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, or related discipline.
• 7 years of IT experience.
• 2 years of experience leading a team using DevSecOps methods.
• 3 years of experience in Linux administration.
• 3 years of experience testing, implementing, deploying, maintaining, and administering infrastructure hardware and software for a cybersecurity/SOC environment.
• Experience developing, creating, modifying, and maintaining computer applications, software, or specialized utility programs for a cybersecurity/SOC environment.
• In-depth experience with design and development of complex server based, client/server, service oriented, micro-service, and/or n-tiered applications in a hybrid environment (on premise and AWS cloud).
• 3 years of experience with Splunk.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience integrating third-party components, introducing new custom capabilities, modifying existing code, recommending process improvements, and automating operations and maintenance tasks for applications and tools for a SOC environment.
• 2 years of experience with Oracle and MS SQL based platforms.
• 2 years of experience with Python and other scripting languages.
• Preferred certifications: Red Hat Certified Systems Administrator (RHCSA), AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Associate

Security Clearance Requirements:

• Must possess an active Top Secret security clearance