Immediate need for a talented Cyber Response Specialist. This is a 17+months contract opportunity with long-term potential and is located in Zebulon,NC /Atlanta,GA (Onsite). Please review the job description below and contact me ASAP if you are interested.
Job ID:25-54971
Pay Range: $90 - $93/hour. Employee benefits include, but are not limited to, health insurance (medical, dental, vision), 401(k) plan, and paid sick leave (depending on work location).
Key Responsibilities:
As a Cyber Response Specialist, you'll play a key role in protecting our organization by helping ensure effective incident response.
Your ability to communicate clearly, build relationships, and energize others will be as important as your technical expertise.
This position will be instrumental in maintaining a number of important documents, knowledge base entries, investigation guides, and response guides.
We're seeking someone who enjoys teamwork, loves learning, and is motivated by tackling problems in collaboration with others.
The Cyber Response Specialist is an office-based role within the 24/7 Cyber Fusion Center (CFC) organization.
This role will be specialized in learning about our perimeter and will advise on ways to improve monitoring and incident response around perimeter attacks.
This role will evaluate data collected from a variety of cyber operations tools (e.g., SIEM, IDS alerts, firewalls, network traffic logs, cloud platforms, and SOAR solutions) to analyze events that occur within their environments for the purposes of mitigating threats in mostly unstructured and complex situations. Individuals in this role are creative, proactive, and highly skilled in log, identity, cloud, network, and root cause analysis.
Experience working in highly collaborate face-to-face situations with different stakeholders across an organization is important.
Bachelor's degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, Cybersecurity, or related field of relevant education, certification, or related training.
Two years of experience in Cybersecurity, Information Technology, or related work.
Knowledge of one or more cloud platforms and cloud security.
Knowledge of general information technology (IT) and cybersecurity.
Knowledge of computer networking concepts and protocols, and network security methodologies.
Knowledge of network traffic analysis and packet-level analysis using appropriate tools (e.g., Wireshark, tcpdump).
Knowledge of operating systems, including Windows/Unix ports and services.
Knowledge of modern identity and access management concepts.
Knowledge of phishing tactics and techniques.
Knowledge of advanced cyber threats and vulnerabilities.
Knowledge of cyber-attack stages (e.g., reconnaissance, scanning, enumeration, gaining access, escalation of privileges, maintaining access, network exploitation, covering tracks).
Knowledge of incident response and handling methodologies.
Knowledge of threat hunting techniques.
Knowledge of countermeasures to address a variety of threats.
Knowledge around leveraging automation, ML, and/or AI .
Experience working in a Security Operations Center (SOC).
Our client is a leading Financial Industry, and we are currently interviewing to fill this and other similar contract positions. If you are interested in this position, please apply online for immediate consideration.
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