Executive Response Specialist jobs in Virginia

Organization: Accenture Federal Services
Location: Arlington, VA

We are:
Accenture Federal Services, a wholly owned subsidiary of Accenture LLP, is a U.S. company with offices in Arlington, VA, San Antonio, TX, and St. Louis, MO. Accenture's federal business has served every cabinet-level department and 30 of the largest federal organizations. Accenture Federal Services transforms bold ideas into breakthrough outcomes for clients at defense, intelligence, public safety, civilian and military health organizations.

We believe that great outcomes are everything. It's what drives us to turn bold ideas into breakthrough solutions. By combining digital technologies with what works across the world's leading businesses, we use agile approaches to help clients solve their toughest problems fast-the first time. So, you can deliver what matters most.

Count on us to help you embrace new ways of working, building for change and put customers at the core. A wholly owned subsidiary of Accenture, we bring over 30 years of experience serving the federal government, including every cabinet-level department. Our dedicated colleagues and change makers work with our clients at the heart of the nation's priorities in defense, intel, public safety, health and civilian to help you make a difference for the people you employ, serve and protect.

You are:

A Cyber Incident Response Consultant who will work under an incident response manager to analyze and respond to incidents from security-relevant events triaged by the T1 team.

The work:

• Perform malware analysis and provide recommendations to increase the organizations security posture
• Collaborate with operations teams and management to investigate security issues and determine true and false positives

Here's What You Need:

• U.S. Citizenship required
• 5 years of Cyber Incident Response experience
• 2 years experience performing event and log analysis including Intrusion Detection Systems and experience working with Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solutions
• 1 year of experience investigating, containing, eradicating, and preventing current and future compromises i.e., implementing or requesting an IP/domain/URL block, file hash block, email purge, software removal, device reimage, etc.

Other Required Skills:

• Excellent communication skills
• Attention to detail
• Work independently to deliver timely solutions without direct supervision
• Experience presenting complex technical information to decision makers and leading them through the decision-making process
• Familiarity with various network and host-based security applications and tools, such as network and host assessment/scanning tools, network and host-based intrusion detection systems, and other security software packages
• Experience with TCP/IP, common application layer protocols, and packet analysis of the same
• Experience performing static and dynamic malware analysis
• Experience with indicators of attack and compromise
• Familiarity with detection design & engineering concepts to tune detections
• Familiarity with Windows / Linux architecture and endpoint analysis of the same
• Familiarity with basic data parsing and analysis tools, i.e., Excel, grep, sed, awk, regex, etc.

Bonus Points:

• SANs GIAC Certifications including but not limited to GCED, GCLD, GCIH, GCFA, GREM

Compensation for roles at Accenture Federal Services varies depending on a wide array of factors including but not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set and level of experience.?As required by local law, Accenture Federal Services provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired in California, Colorado, New York City or Washington as set forth below and????

Role Location: Range of Starting Pay for role?

California: $95,600-$153,100

Colorado: $95,600-$132,300

New York City: $110,700-$153,100

Washington State: $101,900-$140,800

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