This position is to support The National Institutes of Health (NIH)!

One day onsite a week required

Must be able to obtain public trust for the position.

The Security Operations Center Analyst will be responsible for monitoring and analyzing security threats and implementing appropriate countermeasures to protect the organization's information assets.

Key Responsibilities:

• Monitor and analyze security threats and vulnerabilities and implement appropriate counter measures
• Ensure compliance with regulatory compliance directives, including various NIST security controls and monitoring and reporting requirements
• Manage incident response efforts and assist in investigations into security breaches
• Communicate and report to stakeholders on security-related documents and status updates
• Assist in the development, implementation and oversight of SOC standard operating procedures used to guide daily activities of the operations center
• Utilize various security tools like Tenable Security Center, Splunk, MS Defender, SEIM, Symantec DLP, Netsparker, Penetration Testing, Service Now, Web Application Security, Data Loss Prevention, Incident Response, Forensics, Security Tool Evaluation, and Endpoint Protection (Cylance)
• Experience in EDR management, modifying EDR policies, deploying EDR agents.

Qualifications:

• 3+ years of experience within the Cyber Security industry, with experience in security event monitoring and incident response services within an enterprise network security environment
• Bachelor s or Master s Degree in Information Technology or related disciplines; or have equivalent and direct experience with the management, operation, and direction of a network and/or security operations center
• CISSP, CISM, CySA+, or GCIH certifications are desired