Cyber Defense Analyst (onsite)

Washington, District Of Columbia

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Type: Contract-to-Hire

Experience: 0

Category: Information Technology

Contractor Work Model: Onsite

Brand: System One

Shift: On-Site

Compensation Range: 125000.00 - 130000.00 Per Year

Job ID: 344385

Date Posted: 01/07/2026

Shortcut: http://jobs.systemone.com/Xx7ZNl


Cyber Defense Analyst
2nd shift - 3pm - 11:30pm
Washington, DC – onsite
Must be able to obtain Public Trust clearance


Responsibilities:
•    Collaborates with intrusion analysts to identify, report on, and coordinate remediation of cyber threats to the client
•    Provides timely and actionable sanitized intelligence to cyber incident response professionals
•    Leverages technical knowledge of computer systems and networks with cyber threat information to assess the client's security posture
•    Conducts intelligence analysis to assess intrusion signatures, tactics, techniques and procedures associated with preparation for and execution of cyber attacks
•    Researches hackers, hacker techniques, vulnerabilities, exploits, and provides detailed briefings and intelligence reports to leadership

Qualifications:
•    Bachelor's with 8+ years of cyber security experience (or commensurate experience)
•    7 years of security intrusion detection examination experience involving a range of security technologies that product logging data; to include wide area networks host and network IPS/IDS/HIPs traffic event review, server web log analysis, raw data logs
•    Working experience of Splunk SIEM. 
•    At least five years’ experience working at a senior level, performing analytics examination of logs and console events in the following working experience areas of; creating advance queries methods in Splunk or advance Grep skills, firewall ACL review, examining Snort based IDS events, Pcaps, web server log review, and working in a SIEM environment



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