Senior Cybersecurity Analyst

Who we are and why you should join us:

As a consultant at Partner Forces, you will serve as a trusted advisor to our clients’ day in and day out. You will have the opportunity to collaborate with your colleagues, our partners, and our clients to ideate, initiate and complete tasks, projects, and initiatives. You will work on mission-oriented projects, where you will bring forward actionable insights, solve complex problems, and thrive on delivering meaningful solutions.

Partner Forces is grounded in our core values of integrity, diversity, positivity, candor, determination, and teamwork. Our culture is a reflection of this, ensuring that we:

• Apply solution-oriented thinking to challenges and opportunities.
• Thrive by remaining agile and embracing change.
• Work to create an environment where everyone feels welcome and valued as teammates and contributors.
• Bring out the best in others by applying sound judgment and exuding principled genuineness.
• Embrace a continuous learning and growth mindset.
• Encourage an open dialogue even when it is hard.
• Continuously promoting teamwork and collaboration to achieve the best outcomes for our clients and teams.

As an employee at Partner Forces, you’ll join a diverse team of consultants who share a passion for prioritizing collaboration, crafting solutions to mitigate risk, protecting critical infrastructure and helping our national security and industry partner tackle their most pressing challenges. At Partner Forces, we take our employees’ well-being and growth as seriously as we do our mission. You will be challenged every day, but we know that business and individual growth go hand-in-hand, so we offer a wide array of benefits that support the well-being and personal and professional development of our employees.

What we are looking for:

We are seeking a motivated and skilled Senior Cybersecurity Analyst to support the Department of Homeland Security’s cybersecurity reporting and response efforts. This position requires a proactive professional with expertise in investigating, analyzing, and responding to cybersecurity incidents while establishing and performing critical cybersecurity functions. The successful candidate will play a vital role in triaging, analyzing, and managing analytic production requirements to strengthen cybersecurity operations and enhance organizational processes.

What you will do as a Senior Cybersecurity Analyst:

Indications and Warning:

• Triage, analyze, and contextualize cybersecurity events to deliver actionable reporting that notifies DHS’s cybersecurity response services.
• Assess and prioritize incidents, ensuring accurate and timely reporting to enable rapid response efforts.

Analysis:

• Provide descriptive and predictive analytics to identify environmental changes and adversary activities that impact triage criteria.
• Correlate and contextualize events to improve situational awareness and operational decision-making.
• Develop and refine processes to analyze vulnerability (environmental) and threat (actor) reports.

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.
• Experience analyzing both vulnerability (environmental) and threat (actor) reports to enhance organizational cybersecurity processes.
• Strong understanding of triage processes, incident response methodologies, and cybersecurity reporting frameworks.
• Proficiency in tools and techniques for data correlation, analysis, and reporting.
• Knowledge of cybersecurity policies, regulations, and frameworks relevant to government operations.
• Self-motivated and adaptable to dynamic operational needs.
• Certifications such as CISSP, CEH, or CISM are a plus.
• Experience in federal contracting or working in a government-related cybersecurity environment is highly preferred.
• Ability to be on site in Arlington, VA.