Senior Cyber Security Analyst Partners Data Systems
Arlington, VA

Job Description

Since our founding in 2001, AIS has provided a supportive place to work for technologists to research, create and support mission critical cyber security solutions. We have built a reputation for hiring talented and motivated individuals in both our services and R&D organizations. We focus on growing and developing the skills of our employees to ensure that our organization continually provides strong support to keep pace with the needs of our customer base while keeping true to our hacker roots - the Jolly Roger flies proudly outside of our Rome, NY HQ.

Top Benefits Include:

* 401k Plan With 7% Company Contribution - Fully Vested Day 1
* 100 % Company Paid Health Insurance Premiums (Blue Cross/Blue Shield)
* 4 Weeks of Vacation + 10 Paid Holidays (several floating/flexible)
* Flexible Working Schedules

Required Qualifications:

* Significant experience managing cases with enterprise SIEM systems like Splunk
* Experience and solid understanding of the following technologies:
* Endpoint security products
* IDS/IPS
* Email security products for exchange like IronPort


* Expertise with one or more of the following tools:
* RSA | Security Analytics,
* Wireshark or other information security tools.
* Remedy
* Tanium


* Expertise with Deep packet and log analysis
* Ability to create IDS/IPS content
* Lead SOC analysis activity as necessary
* Expert ability to recognize potential, successful and unsuccessful intrusion attempts and compromises thorough reviews and analyses of relevant event detail and summary information
* Expertise leveraging situational awareness reports for advanced threats such as Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) and Focused Operations (FO) incidents.
* Be able to author Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and training documentation when needed.
* Expert understanding of Network protocols and packet analysis tools.
* Deep understanding Windows, Linux operating systems network behavior
* Familiarity with basic Forensics and Malware Analysis
* The ability to take lead on incident research when appropriate and be able to mentor junior analysts.
* Provides correlation and trending of cyber incident activity.
* Understand concepts of identifying anomalous behaviors
* Willingness to mentor and teach junior and mid-level analysts
* Communicate Up, Down, and Across All Levels of the Organization and Technical Backgrounds
* Be able to provide Timely and Relevant Security Reports as necessary
* One or more certifications including but not limited to: GCIH, GCIA, GCFE, GREM, GCFA, GSEC, CEH, CISSP, CCNA (Security) or equivalent
* 4+ years of monitoring and detection experience