What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Cyber Incident and Threat Analyst position at Omniscius Consulting?
The Senior Cyber Incident and Threat Analyst will lead, manage, and provide expert-level cyber threat intelligence (CTI) and cybersecurity triage and analysis to support incident response and vulnerability management operations. This role demands a seasoned professional with a minimum of 10 years of experience in the field, capable of conducting high-quality cybersecurity incident triage and assessments.
What you will do as a Senior Cyber Incident and Threat Analyst:
- Perform cyber defense incident triage and recommend incident remediation strategies.
- Determine the scope, urgency, and impact of cyber defense incidents.
- Correlate threat assessment and incident data.
- Conduct comprehensive adversary research and analysis to determine technologies used by given adversaries.
- Identify and characterize intrusion activities against victims or targets, and profile targets and their activities.
- Develop cybersecurity indicators to maintain awareness of the dynamic operating environment.
- Identify near-term changes in adversary tactics, techniques, procedures, and technology.
- Report changes in patterns and trends within cybersecurity incidents in correlation with changing environmental factors.
- Provide descriptive and predictive analysis by fusing information from multiple reports.
- Demonstrate experience with Mitre ATT&CK and other analytic frameworks.
- Develop and document repeatable and effective processes for SOPs and WIs.
- Correlate incident data to identify patterns and trends within cybersecurity incidents.
- Generate requests for information and identify information essential to fill information gaps.
Qualifications:
- US Citizen (the nature of our contract requires employees be US citizens).
- Top Secret clearance required.
- At least 10 years of experience.
- Bachelor’s degree preferred.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to conduct in-depth triage and support research and analysis.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, for reporting and stakeholder engagement.
- Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment and manage multiple tasks simultaneously.
- Familiarity with emerging technologies and trends in cybersecurity.
- Strong understanding of network security principles and intrusion detection methodologies.
- Ability to identify and mitigate cybersecurity threats and vulnerabilities effectively.
- Relevant certifications such as Security , CISM, CEH, or GIAC.
- Experience in the energy sector or other critical infrastructure industries.
- Proven ability to develop and document repeatable and effective processes for SOPs and WIs.
- Demonstrated expertise in identifying and mitigating cybersecurity threats and vulnerabilities.
- Ability to be on site in Arlington, VA.
