Network Exploitation Analyst-TS/SCI with FS Poly

Job Requirements Chantilly, VA Top Secret/SCI Full Scope Polygraph Mid Level Career (5+ yrs experience) $150,000 - $275,000 Job Description

NETWORK EXPLOITATION ANALYST

Senior Level Location:

Chantilly, VA US Security Clearance Requirement:

TS/SCI with

Full Scope Polygraph Clearance Status:

Must be Current

JOB SUMMARY

Inferno Systems is searching for Network Exploitation Analysts to work on our blue team to identify and target adversary activities against our customer's operational infrastructure. You will work as a threat hunter to identify and disrupt attempts by APT actors to attack and compromise operational infrastructure, analyze large amounts of network data and make recommendations based on your analysis. This unique opportunity allows you to experience both sides of CNE activity, expand both your offensive and defensive skills and help you think like the attacker to improve operational success. You must like solving complex challenges, developing threat detection processes based on analytic findings and researching the latest cyber security solutions in a rapidly changing environment. The blue team Network Exploitation Analysts are responsible for identifying network intrusions using commercial IDS and host-based logs, network traffic flows and other unique data sets. They inform Network Security Engineers of possible intrusions, identify areas to harden network defenses and inform network defenders from different groups of their results. They can also assist the red team Penetration Testers to better hone their operational security, evade detection and find new ways to penetrate and pivot through target networks.

REQUIRED SKILLS

• Understanding of intrusion sets TTPs and the ability to apply knowledge to future analysis.
• Strong understanding of computer networks, protocols and technologies, particularly at layers 3 and 4
• Experience in structured data analysis or other data analysis methodologies
• Experience in ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) and/or data engineering and ingestion pipelines
• Experience writing code to automate analysis of large data sets
• Proficient in data exploitation and data analysis, including PCAP and netflow
• Proficient in analyzing log files from web hosting services and other technical infrastructure.
• Experience using scripting languages for automation, parsing data sets, and data visualization/analytics (e.g. python, perl, etc.) and/or willingness to learn.
• Able to assimilate and evaluate large amounts of data from multiple sources, operations, and demonstrated success converting findings into actions.
• Proven ability to communicate technical requirements to development teams and represent stakeholder equities through ongoing relationships.
• Knowledge of IT defensive best practices.
• Ability to pay attention to details, ensuring accuracy in documentation and data.

DESIRED SKILLS

• Knowledge of stand-alone automated configuration management systems (e.g.: Chef Solo, Ansible, Kickstart).
• Experience with Hadoop, Apache Spark, SOLR, elastic search and/or Cloudera.
• Ability to perform security analysis of large network devices and systems.
• Familiarity with methodologies to include understanding of web application protocols/flaws, redirection of network traffic, web browser vulnerabilities techniques.
• Ability to articulate technical information to non-technical audiences.
• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills, ability to think strategically.
• Ability to express complex ideas and insights verbally and in writing to a variety of audiences.

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