We have an immediate opening for an Intrusion Analyst to join our project with the U.S. Department of Energy. This position is located in Las Vegas, NV, with occasional travel to other project and client locations.
Duties and Responsibilities:
Monitor, deter, identify, and investigate computer and network intrusions. Ability to research trends and countermeasures in computer/network vulnerabilities, exploits, and malicious activity. Develop and maintain in-depth knowledge and hands-on experience with computer network security techniques and best practices. Technical focus on the monitoring and analysis of large, distributed, and complex network and information systems. Candidate must be able to identify suspicious and malicious activity in a heterogeneous network environment and respond appropriately.
Duties and responsibilities include:
- Proficient written and verbal communication with customer representatives
- Research new and evolving threats and vulnerabilities with potential to impact the monitored environment
- Read and understand network packet capture files
- Monitoring and analysis of network and IDS information
- Log collection, analysis, correlation, and alerting
- Identification of suspicious/malicious activities
- Identification and tracking of malicious code
- Reporting malicious activity to client locations with recommendations for remediation
- Review and management of incident resolutions
- Other duties as assigned
- Travel up to 10%