Cybersecurity Threat Detection Developer

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Cybersecurity Threat Detection Developer

On site in Washington DC

Location: Washington DC (On site - no remote)

Clearance: Top Secret (able to obtain a SCI)

Seeking a highly motivated Cyber Security Content Developer/ Cyber Threat Detection Developer (Threat Detection Developer) for User Activity Monitoring (UAM) to join our team to support our government clients. This role requires a Content Developer to provide support for onsite Insider Threat support services providing immediate investigation and resolution. Any qualified Cyber Threat Detection Developer will need to have an active Top-Secret clearance with SCI eligibility.

This role is an opportunity to apply and grow your skillset in development work with a motivated and rapidly growing company and working with a wide range of technology-forward clients.

Job Responsibilities:

• Self-directed team member who develops, implements, maintains, and supports SIEM dashboards, reports, alerts, and knowledge objects
• Create baselines, queries, dashboards, and visualization to support customer requirements shared with the SecOps and operational teams to identify trends, etc.
• Manages and administers the tuning of rules, triggers, policies, signatures, and custom content for specialized CND applications and systems
• Apply knowledge of regular expressions to create extractions and apply working knowledge of Power Shell or other scripting language(s)
• Utilize knowledge of latest cyber threats and attack vectors to develop and or maintain custom correlation rules from all indexed sources to support continuous event monitoring and alerting
• Participate in discussions to make recommendations on improving SOC cyber visibility, process improvements, and reducing the incident remediation period
• Review all existing network event collections to determine if relevant data is present and make technical recommendations to develop or enhance alerting actions
• Enhance customer's ability to accomplish mission initiatives by delivering forward-thinking solutions that are not defined by requirements
• Author reports and/or interface with customers for ad-hoc requests
• Provide expert guidance and mentorship to junior analysts

Required Qualifications:

• US Citizen. Must have an active Top-Secret clearance (SCI eligible)
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent work experience
• Five years of experience in developing, implementing, and managing SIEM correlation rules and content (such as Splunk, ArcSight, Kibana, LogRhythm)
• Experience with writing audit log parsers for SIEM data structures such as ArcSight’s CEF or Splunk’s SPL
• Advanced knowledge of TCP/IP (Transport protocols geared to Network Engineering – Maybe change to encryption methods e.g. SSL/TLS and PKI) protocols, experience configuring and implementing various technical security solutions, extensive experience providing analysis and trending of security log data from security devices
• Must have demonstrated the ability to tune the SIEM event correlation rules and logic to filter out security events associated with known and well-established network behavior, known false positives, and/or known errors
• Experience developing advanced correlation rules utilizing stats and data models for cyber threat detection
• Experience with Network Monitoring Tools such as proxy, load balancing, IDS/IPS, and packet capturing tools
• Experience in a scripting language (e.g. Bash, Powershell, etc) and automating SOC processes/workflow
• Experience implementing security methodologies and SOC processes
• Ability to effectively work independently and as a team member
• Work experience with Security Operations Center (SOC) or Industry Red Team
• Facilitate excellent problem-solving, critical thinking, and analytical skills with the ability to de-construct problems
• Work experience with the Intelligence Community
• Critical thinking skills
• Must possess strong written and verbal communication skills and must be capable of understanding, documenting, communicating, and presenting technical issues in a non-technical manner to audiences with varying degrees of technical expertise

Preferred qualifications:

• Highly Preferred to have an Active SCI
• Splunk Enterprise Security Admin, Splunk Certified Developer certification
• Extensive experience with User activity monitoring (UAM) ,User Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) and DLP tools
• Expertise in developing Insider Threat trigger policies
• Investigate and analyze events of interest within the SIEM, document workflows, and identify process improvements in the handling and remediation of cybersecurity events
• 8140.03 requirements?
• Identifies and remediates visibility gaps of cyber defense systems
• Experience with Installing and administering COTS applications on RHEL Linux and/or Windows
• Hands-on experience with one of the enterprise cybersecurity toolsets: HBSS/ESS , Trellix and ePolicy Orchestrator
• Hands-on experience running Tenable or vulnerability tracking/scanning systems
• Other highly desired certifications: CEH , CYSA+ , GICSP, SSCP, CND