Information Defense (ID) Team Lead
Arlington, VA
Are you ready to enhance your skills and build your career in a rapidly evolving business climate? Are you looking for a career where professional development is embedded in your employer’s core culture? If so, Chenega Military, Intelligence & Operations Support (MIOS) could be the place for you! Join our team of professionals who support large-scale government operations by leveraging cutting-edge technology and take your career to the next level!
The Team Lead position requires an experienced, analytical person who regularly performs hands-on technical work as well as guiding and directing senior and mid-level analysts in threat detection, threat intelligence research, practical application of threat intelligence to operations, developing custom scripts, understanding threat actor techniques used to compromise systems and evade detections.
Responsibilities
- Lead a small team of advanced and mid-level security analysts to provide ID team services for government, serving as the primary point of contact to discuss technical threat hunting issues, and mentoring new ID team members to grow in their skills and abilities.
- Engineer detection alerting rules for events reported by endpoints, cloud services, network devices, and other relevant event sources. This could include Splunk SPL, Microsoft Kusto Query Language (KQL), Elastic Kibana Query Language, Carbon Black, Snort rules, or other pattern-matching detection rules.
- Proactively research new malware using hunting capabilities on malware repository services such as VirusTotal, and through established partnerships with other security researchers to obtain new samples.
- Lead phishing campaigns to help educate the workforce on the risks of opening emails and attachments from unknown sources.
- Lead purple and red teaming efforts as directed.
- Provide support to the NOSC and ensure team members are on call after hours, weekends, and holidays.
- Maintain the tools used by the ID Team. Conduct research analysis on the latest tools and make recommendations on employing new tools on the enterprise. Review current tools and provide rationale to renew or remove tools from the enterprise.
- Perform research and investigations with little to no oversight to locate information that is relevant to governments’ requests, and communicate the results effectively to clients (typically interfacing with government employees who are information security professionals)
- Ensure that all written communication is professional, high quality, free of errors, and clearly delivers relevant information that is of value to the government.
- Other projects and responsibilities, as assigned by the direct manager.
- Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
- High school diploma or GED equivalent required
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Digital Forensics, or related major with an emphasis on Security preferred
- 6+ years experience in Threat Hunting, Security Research, or Incident Response
- Demonstrated leadership skills, preferably in a formal leadership role
- Scripting experience
- TS/SCI clearance required
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Advanced technical training in threat hunting, malware analysis, threat intelligence or other relevant topics
- Recognized as a leader and contributor in the information security community, regardless of number of years of experience.
- Track record of excellent performance as a leader of information security professionals
- Experience in a security service provider role dealing with clients
- Experience planning, designing, and implementing security controls and systems
- Red team or adversary simulation experience
- Experience teaching or guiding others to learn malware analysis techniques
- Technical understanding of forensic analysis techniques and ability to correctly interpret results
- Experience analyzing obfuscated scripts (e.g. PowerShell, VBA, JavaScript, .Net, etc.)
- Superior research and technical analysis skills
- Excellent writing and verbal communication skills
- Understanding of cybersecurity topics and ability to explain them to others clearly
- Proven track record of independently managing multiple research projects – Accountability, personal initiative, and integrity
- Ability to take ownership, set priorities, multi-task and meet tight deadlines
- Well-developed problem-solving and interpersonal skills
- Excellent organizational skills with acute attention to detail
How you’ll grow
At Chenega MIOS, our professional development plan focuses on helping our team members at every level of their careers to identify and use their strengths to do their best work every day. From entry-level employees to senior leaders, we believe there’s always room to learn.
We offer opportunities to help sharpen skills in addition to hands-on experience in the global, fast-changing business world. From on-the-job learning experiences to formal development programs, our professionals have a variety of opportunities to continue to grow throughout their careers.
Benefits
At Chenega MIOS, we know that great people make a great organization. We value our team members and offer them a broad range of benefits.
Learn more about what working at Chenega MIOS can mean for you.
Chenega MIOS’s culture
Our positive and supportive culture encourages our team members to do their best work every day. We celebrate individuals by recognizing their uniqueness and offering them the flexibility to make daily choices that can help them be healthy, centered, confident, and aware. We offer well-being programs and continuously look for new ways to maintain a culture where we excel and lead healthy, happy lives.
Corporate citizenship
Chenega MIOS is led by a purpose to make an impact that matters. This purpose defines who we are and extends to relationships with our clients, our team members, and our communities. We believe that business has the power to inspire and transform. We focus on education, giving, skill-based volunteerism, and leadership to help drive positive social impact in our communities.
Learn more about Chenega’s impact on the world.
Chenega MIOS News- https://chenegamios.com/news/
Tips from your Talent Acquisition Team
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Chenega MIOS web site - www.chenegamios.com
Glassdoor - https://www.glassdoor.com/Overview/Working-at-Chenega-MIOS-EI_IE369514.11,23.htm
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/1472684/
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