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Lead Cyber Watch Analyst

Tyto Athene, LLC
Arlington, VA Full Time
POSTED ON 1/30/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 4/28/2025

Job Description

Tyto Athene is searching for a Lead Cyber Watch Analyst to support our customer in Arlington, Virginia.

Responsibilities :

  • Utilize security tools to analyze, investigate, and triage security alerts
  • Coordinate the monitoring of our customers environments, including cloud and SaaS solutions for evidence of adversarial activity
  • Lead cross-functional teams to perform in-depth analysis and investigation of high-priority cybersecurity incidents
  • Utilize advanced tools, such as digital forensics or malware analysis capabilities, to identify incidents' root causes, scope, and impact
  • Collaborate with cyber threat hunting and cyber threat intelligence teams
  • Serve as the primary incident point of contact with law enforcement, third-party vendors, and other external parties
  • Conduct post-incident analysis and lessons learned to identify improvement opportunities
  • Develop or tune detection rules or signatures to improve the effectiveness of security monitoring and collaborate with engineering teams to implement them
  • Accurately document triage findings, and intake reports of external cybersecurity events from SOC customers via phone or email in the SOCs Incident Management System(IMS)
  • Learn new open and closed-source investigative techniques
  • Perform research on emerging threats and vulnerabilities to aid their prevention and mitigation
  • Assist in developing and implementing initiatives that will enhance the SOC's performance (e.g., SOPs, playbooks, capability deployments)
  • Escalate SOC performance issues or risks to management
  • Provide guidance and mentorship to Tier 1 and Tier 2 SOC Analysts to enhance their skills and capabilities

Required :

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field and 12years of relevant experience or a Master's degree and 8 years.
  • CISSP or CEH certification; additional experience, formal training, certifications, and / or education may be substitutable at the client's discretion
  • Experience in some of the following tools and technologies : EDR and SIEM
  • The ability to take the lead on incident research and mentor junior analysts
  • Understanding of MITRE ATT CK and D3FEND
  • Knowledge of advanced attacker tools, techniques, and procedures (TTP)
  • Current malware campaigns TTPs
  • Experience with malware analysis
  • Experience with digital forensics tools and case procedures
  • Knowledge of enterprise architecture including zero trust principles
  • Knowledge of Windows and Linux file systems
  • Common phishing techniques and how to investigate them
  • Proficiency in technical writing
  • Experience in customer service or client-facing roles
  • Experience presenting and speaking to leadership
  • The ability to mentor Tier 1 and Tier 2 analysts
  • Desired :

  • Previous SOC or incident response experience
  • Working knowledge of regex and scripting languages is highly preferred
  • Additional relevant certifications such as those from GIAC or CompTIA
  • Experience with major cloud service provider offerings
  • Knowledge of offensive security tools and techniques
  • Experience with cyber threat intelligence gathering and analysis
  • Experience with cyber threat hunting
  • Clearance : Active Secret Clearance required

    Certification : DoD 8570 IAM / IAT Level II certification. This will change to a DoD 8140 equivalent once a DISA 8140 policy is released.

    Location : This is an on-site role with expectations of being on the client site in Arlington, VA five days a week.

    Additional Information

    After several strategic acquisitions in 2021, Tyto Athene has experienced enormous opportunity and growth. Aside from being the leading provider of mission-focused IT and Cyber services and solutions to critical U.S. government agencies, Tyto is well-positioned to meet the growing demand for network modernization requirements across the federal enterprise.

    Our employees are the key to the innovation that has made Tyto a success. We provide an environment that is geared to reward potential, innovation, and teamwork. If you would like to unleash your creativity and your careerit's time to join Team Tyto!

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