Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst

Posted:
12/13/2024, 3:38:16 AM

Location(s):
Bethesda, Maryland, United States ⋅ Maryland, United States

Experience Level(s):
Junior ⋅ Mid Level ⋅ Senior

Field(s):
IT & Security ⋅ Software Engineering

Looking for a rewarding career challenge?

Unleash your potential at Leidos, we deliver innovative solutions through the efforts of our diverse and talented people who are dedicated to our customer’s success. We empower our teams, contribute to our communities, and operate sustainably. Everything we do is built on a commitment to do the right thing for our customers, our people, and our community. Our Mission, Vision, and Values guide the way we do business. With Leidos, you will enjoy competitive benefits such as Paid Time Off, Flexible Schedules, Discounted Stock Purchase Plans, Education and Training Support, Parental Paid Leave, and more!

If this sounds like an environment where you can thrive, keep reading!

Are you ready to join an incredible team? This contract is critical to the government and allows team members to work independently and in a team environment to achieve success. If you are passionate, motivated, and want to be part of an organization that values your contributions, we want to hear from you. Apply today!

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The National Security Sector at Leidos is seeking a Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst to join our dynamic team and support with Cyber Threat Intelligence products, management of adversary indicators of compromise, tracking and monitoring of adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures, and leading cyber threat intelligence collaboration internally and externally to our Intelligence Community (IC) customer.

This position will provide support for defensive cyber operations activities and will be expected to actively engage with multiple IC customers and mission partners, anticipating their needs, and delivering flawlessly.

You will be responsible for:

  • Interact effectively with senior management at all levels, both internally and externally.
  • Provide comprehensive support and issue tracking for multiple IC organizations and partners, handling database queries, metrics and trend reports.
  • Support the team in areas such as cyber fusion and hunt mission, RFIs, customer/mission partner engagement, and potential to serve as people leader/manager.
  • Collaborate closely with other departments to strengthen response efforts.
  • Maintain situational awareness of cyber activity by reviewing DoD, IC and open-source reporting for new vulnerabilities, malware or other threats that have the potential to impact the IC environment.
  • Conduct cyber defense trend analysis and generate insightful reports to improve security posture.
  • Extensive understanding of cyber threats, attack vectors, methods, attacks, and countermeasures along with knowledge of threat-based frameworks, such as MITRE ATT&CK.
  • Synthesize, summarize, consolidate and share potentially malicious activities on the IC environment with IC and mission partner organizations by creating incident reports, SARs, Confluence updates, Tippers, Threat Cards and other notifications.
  • Assist in providing threat and vulnerability analysis as well as security advisory services and recommendations.
  • Maintain threat intelligence platform used for sharing, storing, and receiving information about cybersecurity threats, malware, and vulnerabilities.
  • Ensure contract deliverables and SLA performance consistently meet or exceed target quality standards.
  • Review written deliverables to ensure they meet quality assurance benchmarks.

Required Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree and 8 – 12 years related experience in Information Systems, Computer Science or related field or a Master’s with 6 – 10 years of related experience.
  • Must have an active Top Secret/SCI with Polygraph security clearance
  • Minimum of 4 years of work experience as an intelligence analyst or cyber threat intelligence analyst with a minimum of 1 year of cyber threat experience.
  • Ability to provide concise, articulate, polished writing of analytic documents, summaries, issue papers, talking points, and briefings.
  • Demonstrated proficiency working in a fast-paced collaborative environment and ability to proactively multi-task and meet short deadlines.
  • Strong interpersonal, critical thinking, and communication skills, including the ability to clearly convey complex and technical data to nontechnical customers.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • DoD 8570 IAT Level II required (i.e., Security+, CND, GICSP, GSEC, SSCP) or IAM Level II (i.e., CISSP, CISM, GSLC, CCISO)
  • Over five years of experience working with the Intelligence Community (IC) and/or Fusion centers.
  • Knowledge of MITRE ATT&CK framework.
  • Experience in intelligence driven defense and/or Cyber Kill Chain (CKC) methodology; knowledge of Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) and other cyber threat modeling frame works.

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Original Posting Date:

2024-12-13

While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range:

Pay Range $104,650.00 - $189,175.00

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

Leidos

Website: https://www.leidos.com/

Headquarter Location: Reston, Virginia, United States

Employee Count: 10001+

Year Founded: 1969

IPO Status: Public

Industries: Computer ⋅ Government ⋅ Information Services ⋅ Information Technology ⋅ National Security ⋅ Software