Dahlgren, VA
Education/Certifications: Bachelor’s Degree (desired); IAT Level II
Years of Experience: 5+ years
Clearance Level & Investigation: TS with SCI eligibility / T5
IA Cert Level (DoD 8570.01): IAT Level II
Qualifications:
The Cyber Hunt Specialist must have the following minimum qualifications:
- Five (5) years professional experience providing expertise for support of user requirements including complex to highly complex software/hardware applications, hunt methodologies, advanced actor campaigns and exploits, and telemetry refinement related to Cyber.
- Participates in all phases of incident response or hunt methodology (kill chain, pyramid of pain, diamond model).
- Provides expert level assistance to Digital Forensics and Incident Response and threat intelligence operations teams on advanced actor tactics, techniques and procedures related to Cyber.
- Keeps current on industry direction, trends, and future capabilities with respect to cyber threat analytics.
- Designated as IAT II level with a T5.
- Bachelor’s Degree desired but not required.
Responsibilities:
- The Cyber Hunt Specialist will perform the following tasks, including, but not limited to:
- Proactively and iteratively detect, isolate, and neutralize cyber threats that evade other security solutions.
- Cyber Hunt tasks include but are not limited to: collecting intrusion artifacts and using discovered data to enable mitigation of potential cybersecurity incidents within enterprise; coordinating with and providing expert technical support to cybersecurity technicians to resolve cybersecurity incidents; and correlating incident data to identify specific vulnerabilities, and make recommendations that enable expeditious remediation.
- Deliver Cyber Hunt Report including artifact list, summary of potential incidents and resolved incidents, and remediation recommendations for vulnerabilities found based on previous incident data.