Cyber Defense Firewall Admin

DAn Solutions
Reston, VA Full Time
POSTED ON 1/22/2023 CLOSED ON 7/20/2023

What are the responsibilities and job description for the Cyber Defense Firewall Admin position at DAn Solutions?

REQUIRES AN ACTIVE TS/SCI WITH CI POLYGRAPH - MUST WORK ON SITE, NO REMOTE

Job Description Summary:

Investigates, analyzes, and responds to cyber incidents within the network environment or enclave.
Job Description


  • Performing Enterprise Defense Countermeasure (DC) activities and coordination with other government agencies to record and prepare incident reports and analysis
methodology and results.
  • Monitoring and analyzing signature alerts from Intrusion Detection/Prevention Systems (IDS/IPS) for false positives.
  • Providing technical enforcement of organizational security policies.
  • Providing "tune-or-drop" recommendations towards the DC team's Signature Lifecycle Review procedure.
  • Provide insight to Detection and Response teams on signature functionality and providing signature tuning as needed.
  • Providing guidance and work leadership to less-experienced staff.
  • Communicating with customers and teammates clearly and concisely.
  • Maintaining current knowledge of relevant technology as assigned and may have supervisory responsibilities.
  • Participating in special projects as required.
  • May serve as a technical team or task leader.
  • Position may require evening, weekend, or shiftwork (depending on operational tempo).


Desired Skills

  • Experience with Perl Compatible Regular Expressions (PCRE)
  • Experience authoring Yara rules
  • Experience authoring Snort signatures

Salary : $106,000 - $134,000

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