Junior Cyber Intelligence Analyst - Secret Clearance Preferred - Us Citizenship Required

Are you interested in improving the cyber risk profiles of local government organizations in the greater Los Angeles area? Do you want to deliver actionable threat intelligence, risk mitigation and response guidance, and cyber forensics expertise to these organizations? Can you effectively work within a small, agile team of other cyber professionals located at the client site? If yes, then join our team of cyber professionals who focus on helping our stakeholders prevent, defend against, and recover from major cyber threats.

Candidate must be local to the office. No remote work.

HOW A CYBER INTELLIGENCE ANALYST WILL MAKE AN IMPACT

In your role as an Cyber Intelligence Analyst, you will support a team with delivering projects related to a variety of cyber topics, including:

• Collaborate with stakeholders in the greater Los Angeles area to gather and disseminate cyber threat intelligence related to recent incidents; tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs); and latest threat actor trends.
• Contribute to written and oral products for a variety of audiences, to include cyber threat briefings, cyber threat products, and participation in cyber working groups and tabletop exercises.
• Help stakeholders achieve integrated cyber defense, proactively monitor, detect, investigate, and respond to cyber incidents.
• Understand and implement the client’s cyber defense mission for the greater Los Angeles region.

Core Responsibilities:

• Coordinate incident response functions across multiple organizations/jurisdictions.
• Coordinate and communicate across multiple stakeholder groups.
• Develop and deliver written and oral cyber threat alerts, regularly scheduled digests, case studies, and after-action reports to various audiences.
• Perform cyber defense trend analysis – assist stakeholders with determining their cybersecurity posture – and assisting with the establishment of reporting mechanisms to local, state, and federal cyber partners.
• Collect/review indicators of compromise and indicators of attacks from stakeholders to analyze and disseminate in finished intelligence products to enable the mitigation of potential cyber defense incidents within the greater Los Angeles area.
• Receive and analyze cyber threat alerts from various sources and disseminate to the appropriate audience, to include using threat information sharing platforms.
• Work with stakeholders’ personnel to help organizations respond to and resolve cyber incidents through incident response planning, exercising, and cyber threat sharing.
• Monitor external data sources (cyber defense vendor sites, Computer Emergency Response Teams, Security Focus) to maintain up-to-date understanding of cyber actors and threats, and provide recommendations on prioritizing cyber threats and prevention/mitigation measures.

WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills and ability to work within a small cyber team, as part of a multi-disciplinary task force.
• Knowledge of general security concepts, such as defense-in-depth, least privilege, security architecture and design, threat modeling, etc.
• 1 + year minimum of work experience in at least one of the following cybersecurity disciplines: Cyber Fusion Center, Security Operations Center, Network Security, Endpoint Security, Incident Response, Forensics, Cyber Threat Intelligence, Vulnerability Management.
• Demonstrable personal interest in threat intelligence in the field of cyber, to include threat hunting, cyber defense, cyber investigations, and cyber incident response.
• Undergraduate degree with a focus or emphasis in Cybersecurity, Information Assurance or related field, i.e. Intelligence Methodologies, or related field; or 2 years of relevant work experience.
• Client service orientation, conflict resolution, and analysis/synthesis of information skills.

Desired:

• GIAC Security Essentials (GSEC)
• At least one of the following certifications:
  • Security+
  • GIAC Security Essentials (GSEC)
    
• Active Secret or Top Secret (TS) clearance
• Security+

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS: BA/BS (or equivalent experience), 1+ years of experience

GDIT IS YOUR PLACE:

• Comprehensive health and wellness packages
• Cutting-edge technology you can learn from
• Professional growth opportunities including paid education and certifications
• 401K with company match
• Rest and recharge with paid vacation and holidays
• Internal mobility team dedicated to helping you own your career