Cyber Security Analyst – Lead Position Available In Fulton, Georgia

Cyber Security Analyst – Lead#25-62095
$75.51-$78.91 per hour
Atlanta, GA
All On-site Job Description

Title:

Cyber Hunt & Respond Specialist

Location:

On-site in Atlanta, GA

Duration:

FTE Role
This position is 1st Shift | Tuesday – Saturday| on-site 4/days per week in Atlanta.

Project Name:

Focus areas include: Cyber Threat Hunting, Data Analysis, Cyber Incident Response, Tier-3

Incident Response Bachelor Degree:

(Required, Preferred or Not Required)
Not required.

Role Responsibilities:

(what they will be doing)
The Cyber Hunt & Respond Specialist is an experienced, after-hours role within the 24/7 Cyber Fusion Center. This position has two core functions: proactive Threat Hunting and reactive Incident Response coverage.
Threat Hunting involves searching through large, diverse sets of internal and external data to Client previously undetected threats. This role is creative and responsible for developing new hypotheses on how adversaries may be attacking the organization and validating those hypotheses using available data.
As a proactive role, the Specialist is expected to be highly collaborative, extroverted, and eager to engage with partner teams across the enterprise. Building strong relationships and maintaining open lines of communication are essential to uncovering threat patterns, sharing insights, and scaling hunt capabilities.
Creativity is the key skillset that differentiates this Threat Hunter from other cyber roles. The ability to think like an adversary, construct Client detection hypotheses, and explore unconventional data paths is central to success in this position. .

Must Have Skills/Prior Experiences:

(Vendor should not submit any candidate that does not have these skills/prior experience.)
Following is a summary of the essential functions for this job. Other duties may be performed, both major and minor, which are not mentioned below. Specific activities may change from time to time.
As skilled cyber analysts, individuals in this role must be well-versed in log, packet, network, endpoint, root cause analysis, containment, and eradication.
A programming, computer science, engineering, or data science background will be important to success in this role as unstructured data will need automated decisions made and other data reduction techniques applied. Depending on the candidate, the role will likely start with basic searches and visualizations but may ramp-up to leveraging Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence tools. Familiarity with programming and malicious code critical to success in this role.
Must have a strong knowledge of windows internals to effectively respond to and eradicate advanced attacks. This role must advocate for the organization’s threat hunting efforts. The ability to quickly identify nefarious artifacts versus benign activity will be a key skill for this position. Cyber & Respond Engineers will be asked to consult on a variety of problems (technical and non-technical) within the team and larger organization.
Plus/Nice to

Have Skills/Prior Experiences:

(Hiring Manager

DOES NOT

require these skills/ prior experience. However candidates with any of these will be looked at first.)
Industry certifications in general technology (e.g. Network+, AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner, Microsoft Azure Fundamentals, etc.)
Industry certifications in cyber security, such as: Security+, CySA+, GIAC Certified Incident Handler (GCIH), GIAC Certified Forensic Examiner (GCFE), GIAC Cloud Forensics Responder (GCFR), GIAC Certified Forensic Analyst (GCFA), GIAC Network Forensic Analyst (GNFA), GIAC Reverse Engineering Malware Certification (GREM), etc.
Experience in Cyber Breach Response, Security Operations Center (SOC), Network Operations Center (NOC), IT/Cyber Engineering, or Intelligence Community (IC) EEO “Mindlance is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in employment on the basis of – Minority/Gender/Disability/Religion/LGBTQI/Age/Veterans.”