EXCELON SOLUTIONS PRIVATE LIMITED

MPIRE Technology Group, Inc is seeking several Cyber Threat Analyst III to support one of our clients in Falls Church VA. This is a fully remote position.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for performing triage on all security escalations and detections to determine scope, severity, and root cause.
• Monitor cyber security events, detecting incidents, and investigating incidents.
• Identify, recommend strategies, develop, and implement automation use cases leveraging AI/ML capabilities.
• Support deploying, configuring, testing, and maintaining Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) platform, and tools integrated with AI/ML capabilities  to enhance threat detection, analysis and response.
• Provide support to contract Program Manager, as necessary.
• Effectively communicates technical information to non-technical audiences.

Influence others to comply with policies and conform to standards and best practices.

Requirements:

• 7+ years of experience with security operations, threat hunting, and incident response
• Experience in analyzing alerts from Cloud, SIEM, EDR, and XDR tools, and alerts tuning process with preference on SentinelOne, Armis, and Splunk.
• Experience in configuring network devices and analyzing network traffic
• Experience with Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) based security tools.
• Experience in researching, developing, and implementing SOAR use cases.
• Familiar with Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) platform
• Familiarity with cybersecurity operation center functions.
• Experience configuring and re-configuring security tools, including SenintelOne and Splunk.
• Experience implementing Security frameworks, such as MITRE ATT&CK and NIST, and can interpret use cases into actionable monitoring solutions.
• MUST have one or more of the following Certification(s): CISSP, CISA, CISM, GIAC, RHCE.
• Develop, test and Implement dynamic Risk-Based Alerting (RBA)
• Identifying and developing RBA and identifying use cases for SOAR and AI/ML.
• Monitor and analyze alerts from various sources such as IDS/IPS, Splunk, Tanium, MS Defender, SentinelOne and Cloud security tools leveraging SOAR and AI/ML capabilities, and provide recommendation for further tuning of these alerts when necessary.
• Analyze network traffic utilizing available tools and provide recommendations
• Perform vulnerability assessments of recently discovered CVEs against USPS systems and network.
• Assist in the process of configuring or re-configuring the security tools.
• Perform analysis on hosts running on a variety of platforms and operating systems, to include, but not limited to, Microsoft Windows, UNIX, Linux, as well as embedded systems and mainframes.
• Assist in the construction of signatures which can be implemented on cyber defense network tools in response to new or observed threats within the network environment or enclave.
• Test, evaluate, and verify hardware and/or software to determine compliance with defined specifications and requirements

Experience: Mid-Level (8+ years)

Education: Degree in computer science or related field

MPIRE Technology Group Inc. (MTG) is Small Business that was founded in Virginia. The company offers information technology services consulting and systems integration. Our core offerings include: Software Development, IT/Engineering Support and Cyber Security. MPIRE Technology Group’s technical staff has extensive experience managing and executing the full life cycle of IT infrastructure and development projects. Our teams work alongside their clients helping them to achieve their specific objectives. Our clients continue to use our services because of our high quality of work and our company values.

Our Benefits:

· Health insurance

· Dental insurance

· Vision insurance

· Retirement plan

· Paid time off

· Professional development assistance

MPIRE Technology Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.

We are not currently working with 3rd parties.

We are not currently providing sponsorship.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: From $90,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Education:

• Bachelor's (Preferred)

Experience:

• RMAN and RAC: 1 year (Preferred)
• Soar: 5 years (Required)
• Splunk: 5 years (Required)
• Senintel One: 5 years (Preferred)
• AI: 5 years (Preferred)
• Machine learning: 5 years (Preferred)
• linux: 5 years (Preferred)
• UNIX: 5 years (Preferred)
• NIST standards: 1 year (Preferred)
• Tanium: 5 years (Preferred)

Work Location: Remote