Network Intrusion Detection Analyst

Minerva Engineering
Annapolis Junction, MD Full Time
POSTED ON 10/9/2020 CLOSED ON 11/10/2020

Job Posting for Network Intrusion Detection Analyst at Minerva Engineering

Minerva Engineering has a reputation for providing high quality engineering services to a broad range of government agencies.  Our customer-centric approach ensures that we exceed our customer's expectations for performance, schedule maintenance, and cost risk management.  It's our employees that make the difference.  

We have a great opportunity for a Network Intrusion Detection Analyst L3!
 
Minimum Requirements:
  • Bachelor’s degree and 8 years of experience OR a Master’s degree and 6 years of experience OR a Ph D. and 4 years of experience
  • 3 years' experience with commercial/government off-the-Shelf  and/or Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) Intrusion Detection Systems and frameworks
 
In this role, you will:
 
  • Provide advisory network intrustion services in terms of Computer Network Defense analysis supporting active security monitoring missions in the techncial domain areas of Internet protocols (i.e., TCPIIP and IPSec). Computer Networks Theory and practices, and  Network Security
  • Identify, evaluate, and recommend new opportunities for active/holistic defense against adversarial activities based on vulnerability information to protect agency networks, devices, and information.
  • Assess and advise of risk mitigation techniques, guidance, and best practices in defending against the most critical cyber threats on a continuous basis
  • Analyze and evaluates recommendations for system improvements, optimization, development, and maintenance efforts in the following specialties:
    • Information systems architecture
    • Networking
    • Telecommunications; automation
    • Communications protocols
    • Risk management/electronic analysis
    • Software life­ cycle management
    • Software development methodologies
    • Modeling and simulation
  • Identify and document triage data gaps in order to determine how to help posture on cyber­ related issues
  •  Collaborate with Government  to discuss/resolve technical issues and/or changes in operating scope
  • Document and brief Government technical and management staff as required
  • Investigate, develop, and apply statistical methods, counterintelligence and computer forensic analysis techniques to enhance network security and mitigate malicious threats
  • Perform risk management. Identify monitoring risks and determine the administrative or engineering means to mitigate the risk
  • Discover, characterize, and assess anomalous network and platform activity on various information systems
  • Provide first instance threat actors analysis and reports
  • Evaluate and document identified cross-domain violations and submit findings for analysis and report generation
  • Survey network traffic for high priority malicious attacks, anomalous traffic, or other incidents of interest
  • Provide initial event analysis assessing risk and vulnerability implications for agency technologies and customers
  • Advise incident response team of risk mitigation measures and modifications to operational priorities based on Information Assurance (IA) vulnerability information
  • Provide validation of cyber events vulnerability analysis for mission elements.
  • Identify potential areas for deeper dive analysis of threat and vulnerabilities
  • Advise of tools employment to discover new cyber threat actors
  • Provide cause and effect analysis of new/potential sources of unauthorized access to networks, databases, and systems and potential mitigation strategies
  • Assess network topologies to understand data flows through networks and provide mechanisms to tip countermeasures
  • Provide reports detailing adversarial capabilities, exploits, Cyber activity, and vulnerabilities in addition to mitigation techniques and best practices in defeating threats
  • Investigate and advise of innovative solutions to threat-monitoring challenges; validate implementation of enterprise-level networking and security solutions in addressing said challenges.
 
 
Clearance: An active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph is required for this position
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