As the Cybersecurity Analyst Tier 3, you are responsible for overseeing and managing the daily activities of the Security Operations Center for our federal customer. Your role involves helping to lead a team of security analysts and engineers who monitor, detect, analyze, and respond to security incidents and threats in an organization's IT environment. As a Cybersecurity Analyst T3, you play a critical role in safeguarding the organization's assets, data, and reputation from cyber threats. Leadership skills, technical expertise, and a deep understanding of cybersecurity concepts are essential for success in this role. The physical worksite for this position is located in Rockville, MD.  This position requires that ability to obtain and retain a public trust level security clearance. An active CISSP, CISM, or CISA is required for consideration for this position.  US Citizenship is required for this role.

Role and Responsibilities

• Team Management: You are managing highly complex cybersecurity issue resolution while training and mentoring Tier 1 and Tier 2 Analysts. This involves hiring, training, and mentoring security analysts, engineers, and other team members. You will help ensure that each team member understands their roles, responsibilities, and goals within the SOC.
• Effectively communicate information to stakeholders of all levels.
• Incident Response: Coordinating the response to security incidents is a crucial aspect of your role. When a security incident occurs, you will help guide the team in analyzing and containing the threat, mitigating the impact, and initiating recovery procedures.
• Security Monitoring and Detection: Overseeing the continuous monitoring of security events and alerts to identify potential security breaches or threats. This includes analyzing logs, network traffic, and security tools to detect anomalous behavior and suspicious activities.
• Threat Intelligence: Keeping abreast of the latest security threats, vulnerabilities, and attack techniques is essential. You will be responsible for integrating threat intelligence into your SOC's processes and ensuring the team is well-informed about emerging risks.
• Incident Analysis and Reporting: The Tier 3 team will investigate and analyze security incidents to understand their root cause and potential impact. You will generate incident reports for both technical and non-technical stakeholders, including management and relevant authorities.
• Security Tooling and Technology: Evaluating and implementing security technologies, such as SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) systems, intrusion detection/prevention systems, and other security tools that enhance the SOC's capabilities.
• Process Improvement: Continuously improving SOC procedures, workflows, and playbooks to streamline incident response and enhance overall security operations.
• Collaboration: Working closely with other teams in the organization, such as IT, network operations, compliance, and legal, to ensure effective communication and coordination during security incidents.
• Compliance and Regulations: Ensuring that the SOC operates in compliance with relevant security standards, regulations, and policies.
• Training and Awareness: Conducting regular security awareness training for employees to enhance the overall security posture of the organization.

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience within a cybersecurity environment; including 3+ years of experience in a cybersecurity SOC leadership role is required.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, or a related field; or 5+ years of commensurate work experience in lieu of a degree.
• Endpoint and network security experience required.
• Experience in a security operations center, or similar environment, and identifying indications of compromise or attack and responding to incidents.
• Robust certification credentials such as: CISSP, CISM, CISA, required, additional certifications such as Network+, CEH, SANS FOR578: Cyber Threat Intelligence, SANS FOR508: Advanced Incident Response, Threat Hunting, and Digital Forensics, Splunk Core Certified Advanced Power User, Splunk Administrator, and Splunk SOAR administrator are preferred.
• Knowledge of MITRA attached framework.
• Vulnerability/cyber incident management framework
• Experience in SOC Tier 3, mentoring a team of cybersecurity professionals.
• Experience with digital forensics and process
• Knowledge of Splunk, Crowdstrike, tenable, forescout, Xscalar, BigFix, MS360, Encase, Fireeye, Cortex SOAR XDR, Prisma

Preferred Skills and Experience:

• IDS, IPS, EDR, ATP, Malware defenses and monitoring experience.
• Threat hunting experience preferred.
• Knowledge of common adversary tactics and techniques, e.g., obfuscation, persistence, defense evasion, etc.
• Working knowledge of incident response procedures.
• Experience with SQL query construction preferred.
• Experience administering and supporting Windows OS (both workstations and server) and one of the following: Apple or Linux-based operating systems.
• Fundamental understanding of network traffic analysis including TCP/IP, routing, switching, protocols, etc.
• Strong understanding of Windows event log analysis
• Experience with enterprise information security data management - SIEM experience a plus.
• Programming and scripting skills a plus.
• Excellent troubleshooting and analytical thinking skills
• Strong documentation and communication skills
• Advanced Cyber Security certifications preferred but not required.
• Excellent customer service skills

Compensation: The salary range for this position is $130,000 to $140,000 per year based and is based on experience and certifications levels.

Benefits: Health, dental, and vision insurance; 401(k) with employer match; paid time off; professional development opportunities.

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Overview

Black Canyon Consulting (BCC)  is searching for a Senior Software Developer to support the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). This opportunity is full time and onsite at the NCBI in Bethesda, MD and/or remote work.

The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) is part of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).  NCBI is the world’s premier biomedical center hosting over six million daily users that seek research, clinical, genetic, and other information that directly impacts biomedical research and public health – at NCBI you can literally help to accelerate cures for diseases! NCBI’s wide range of applications, platforms (node, python, Django, C++, you name it) and environments (big data [petabytes], machine learning, multiple clouds) serve more users than almost any other US Government Agency according to https://analytics.usa.gov/.

We attract the best people in the business with our competitive benefits package that includes medical, dental and vision coverage, 401k plan with employer contribution, paid holidays, vacation, and tuition reimbursement. If you enjoy being a part of a high performing, professional service and technology focused organization, please apply today!

Job Description

Overview

Black Canyon Consulting (BCC)  is searching for a Senior C++ Software Developer to support our work for the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Library of Medicine (NLM), an institute of the National Institutes of Health. This opportunity is full time and onsite at the NIH-NCBI in Bethesda, MD and/or remote work.

NCBI, the National Center for Biotechnology Information, the nation’s premier biomedical resource, is seeking a software developer to help deliver biological sequence annotation and data curation infrastructure for the nation’s foremost sequence and biomedical literature repositories. Sites at NCBI, a part of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), see four million daily users searching for gene sequence data, biomedical journal citations, and a wide array of other information that directly impacts biomedical research and public health. NCBI’s annotation pipelines not only serve these diverse expert communities – they actually drive new life sciences discoveries, ranging from medical health (viruses and pandemics, genetic diseases, cancer) to public health (food safety monitoring, antimicrobial resistance, viral outbreaks), to basic research topics in computational biology, bioinformatics and microbial diversity, and many more.

Overview

Black Canyon Consulting (BCC) is searching for a Sr. Software Developer in Bioinformatics and Big Data to support our work for the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Library of Medicine (NLM), an institute of the National Institutes of Health. This opportunity is full time and onsite at the NIH-NCBI in Bethesda, MD and/or remote work. 

NCBI, the National Center for Biotechnology Information, the nation’s premier biomedical resource, is seeking a software developer to help deliver biological sequence annotation and data curation infrastructure for the nation’s foremost sequence and biomedical literature repositories. Sites at NCBI, a part of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), see four million daily users searching for gene sequence data, biomedical journal citations, and a wide array of other information that directly impacts biomedical research and public health. NCBI’s annotation pipelines not only serve these diverse expert communities – they actually drive new life sciences discoveries, ranging from medical health (viruses and pandemics, genetic diseases, cancer) to public health (food safety monitoring, antimicrobial resistance, viral outbreaks), to basic research topics in computational biology, bioinformatics and microbial diversity, and many more.

On a technical level, NCBI’s wide range of applications, platforms (e.g. node, Python, Django, C++), and applications and environments (petabyte-level big data, multiple cloud providers) serve more users than the US Postal Service and see more traffic than the IRS at tax time. We embrace FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) and are on the cutting edge of civic tech and cloud computing.

This role calls for more than an expert coder and architect – someone who can work equally effectively with subject-matter experts, user researchers, designers, product managers, scientists, security and DevOps engineers, and more. Work with teams of dedicated, skilled developers, researchers, and product professionals as you build robust, flexible solutions serving dozens of production applications, APIs and services. Join us!

We attract the best people in the business with our competitive benefits package that includes medical, dental and vision coverage, 401k plan with employer contribution, paid holidays, vacation, and tuition reimbursement. If you enjoy being a part of a high performing, professional service and technology focused organization, please apply today!

Overview

Black Canyon Consulting (BCC) is searching for a Sr. Software Developer in Bioinformatics and Big Data to support our work for the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Library of Medicine (NLM), an institute of the National Institutes of Health. This opportunity is full time and onsite at the NIH-NCBI in Bethesda, MD and/or remote work. 

NCBI, the National Center for Biotechnology Information, the nation’s premier biomedical resource, is seeking a software developer to help deliver biological sequence annotation and data curation infrastructure for the nation’s foremost sequence and biomedical literature repositories. Sites at NCBI, a part of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), see four million daily users searching for gene sequence data, biomedical journal citations, and a wide array of other information that directly impacts biomedical research and public health. NCBI’s annotation pipelines not only serve these diverse expert communities – they actually drive new life sciences discoveries, ranging from medical health (viruses and pandemics, genetic diseases, cancer) to public health (food safety monitoring, antimicrobial resistance, viral outbreaks), to basic research topics in computational biology, bioinformatics and microbial diversity, and many more.

On a technical level, NCBI’s wide range of applications, platforms (e.g. node, Python, Django, C++), and applications and environments (petabyte-level big data, multiple cloud providers) serve more users than the US Postal Service and see more traffic than the IRS at tax time. We embrace FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) and are on the cutting edge of civic tech and cloud computing.

This role calls for more than an expert coder and architect – someone who can work equally effectively with subject-matter experts, user researchers, designers, product managers, scientists, security and DevOps engineers, and more. Work with teams of dedicated, skilled developers, researchers, and product professionals as you build robust, flexible solutions serving dozens of production applications, APIs and services. Join us!

We attract the best people in the business with our competitive benefits package that includes medical, dental and vision coverage, 401k plan with employer contribution, paid holidays, vacation, and tuition reimbursement. If you enjoy being a part of a high performing, professional service and technology focused organization, please apply today!