Description
At GDIT, we are passionate about securing and supporting some of the most challenging government, defense, and intelligence missions. As part of our team, your work will have meaning and impact, helping to make today safer and tomorrow smarter.
GDIT has an opening for a CIRT Analyst. This position is part of an IT Service Management contract that includes the operation, modernization, expansion, and evolution of the program’s global IT services. These services span networking, compute, storage, infrastructure, cybersecurity, applications, hosting, and program management.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Perform triage of cyber incidents, identifying scope, urgency, and potential impact.
- Manage, document, and track cyber defense incidents from detection to resolution.
- Provide technical support for real-time cyber defense incident handling tasks.
- Investigate and resolve cybersecurity incidents, ensuring rapid remediation and/or mitigation of cyber threats.
- Demonstrate effectiveness through handling Red Team activity and investigation.
- Provide on-call and after-hours support as needed to meet mission demands.
- Prepare and conduct training courses related to incident response at least four times per calendar year.
- Support efforts to maintain the customer’s CSSP (Cyber Security Service Provider) accreditation, including documentation and technical writing.
- Update and maintain Incident Response tactics, techniques, procedures, and training documentation.
Collaboration:
- Rapidly respond to time-sensitive security events and work collaboratively under tight deadlines.
- Participate in cross-functional teams and meetings to improve cybersecurity posture.
- Build trust, credibility, and strong working relationships with both customers and team members.
- Exhibit a collaborative mindset with strong customer service skills.
- Communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, ensuring shared understanding of incident status and risk.
Key Outcomes:
- Proactively identify and recommend mitigations for vulnerabilities to strengthen the program’s cyber defense posture.
- Collect and analyze network and/or host artifacts from various sources, including logs, system images, and packet captures, to characterize activity, determine root cause and operational impact, and enable rapid remediation.
- Apply strong understanding of cybersecurity concepts, including mitigation strategies, root cause analysis, and Red Team operations, to improve incident response effectiveness.
- Leverage attention to detail, problem-solving capabilities, and analytical thinking to resolve complex cyber incidents.
- Demonstrate dependability, punctuality, and responsiveness to management while meeting mission-critical deadlines.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in information technology, computer science, or a related technical discipline, or the equivalent combination of education, technical certifications or training, and work experience.
- 4+ years of practical experience with cyber incident response, especially on DoW networks.
- Experience with digital forensics and analysis of network and host-based artifacts.
- Active TS/SCI clearance.
- Proficiency in collecting and analyzing logs, system images, packet captures, and other artifacts from various sources.
- Familiarity with current cyber defense tools and technologies used for monitoring, detection, analysis, and response.
- Strong organizational skills for multitasking, prioritizing incidents, and meeting tight deadlines.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills for both technical and non-technical audiences.
Benefits:
- Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages.
- 401(k) plan with company match.
- Competitive pay and paid time off.
- Full flex work weeks where possible.
- Paid parental, military, bereavement, and jury duty leave.
- Short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness, and business travel and accident insurance.