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MITRE’s Information Security department seeks an Operations Analyst to respond to and investigate cyber security incidents within the organization. This position offers a challenging opportunity to be exposed to a diverse set of security disciplines, including incident response, forensics, reverse engineering, malware analysis, intrusion detection, network security, and system security. MITRE has long been a source of cyber security innovation and continues to seek dedicated and talented individuals.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Respond to security alerts, investigate for signs of compromise and react accordingly.

• Track and document security events and incidents in a ticketing system.

• Analyze log data for signs of malicious activity in a SIEM.

• Develop new analytics and apply mitigations for adversary Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs).

• Automate workflows in a SOAR tool.

• Hunt for undetected indicators of compromise.

• Develop new ways to use existing data to identify malicious activity.

• Perform Incident Response actions such as forensics, memory analysis, etc.

Basic Qualifications:

• Typically requires a minimum of 5 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 3 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with relevant experience who can immediately contribute at this job step; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.

• Must be detail oriented and able to consistently follow incident investigation process.

• Must have good analytical, written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.

• Must be able to work well as part of a team and be self-motivated to work on individual projects.

• Must have prior experience with cloud monitoring and response or analytic development in at least one major cloud provider’s environment (AWS, Azure, or GCP)

• Must have prior hands-on experience analyzing and responding to cyber events, including network, endpoint, server and cloud.

• Must have prior hands-on experience with threat hunting.

• This position requires a minimum of 50% hybrid on-site.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Applied knowledge of Cyber Security concepts.

• Familiarity with Linux, Mac, and Windows Operating Systems.

• An in-depth understanding of TCP/IP network protocols and application layer protocols (e.g., HTTP, SMTP, DNS, etc.).

• Experience analyzing adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) and developing defenses and/or detections for them.

• Scripting experience, preferably with Python.

• Experience with Splunk or Elastic Search.

• Hands-on cloud incident response experience.

• Works well independently and with the team.

• Technical leadership skills.

• Solves complex problems.

• Adaptability to new tools, architectures, and policies.

• Prior experience with network, host, and memory forensics.

  This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s):

None

This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s):

Secret

Work Location Type:

Hybrid

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