# Hunt Analyst

**Company**: Leidos
**Location**: Springfield, VA
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $105,300.00 - $190,350.00
**Category**: Defence & Intelligence
**Industry**: Aerospace & Defence

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## Description

The Digital Sector at Leidos currently has an opening for a Hunt Analyst supporting the HEITS Contract as part of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Insider Threat Program (ITP).

The selected candidate will be responsible for examining, analyzing, and searching insider threat data to identify trends, patterns, and insights of potential insider threat indicators.

Key responsibilities include:

- Providing analytical, program support services related to the operation of UAM/UEBA tool

- Monitoring UAM platform to identify emerging requirements related to insider threat events and coordinating across the enterprise to ensure timely response

- Conducting further research on the UAM platform to identify patterns of concerning behavior related to a potential insider threat risk to the DHS enterprise

- Providing proactive insider threat-based hunting across the DHS enterprise network, leveraging methodologies and behavioral analytics to detect, investigate, and mitigate anomalous activity and policy violations indicative of malicious insider behavior

- Identifying mitigation strategies to assist the investigative team in effectively reducing insider threat risk

- Utilizing UEBA platforms and techniques to baseline user activity and detect deviations

- Providing timely response to critical/high UAM alerts within 4 hours during normal business hours

The position requires a schedule combination that includes weekdays 2pm-10pm shift and weekends 6am-6pm shift, with 2-3 days off based on the schedule determined, and the work week should not exceed 40 hours.

**Basic Qualifications:**

- Bachelors degree and 12+ years of prior relevant insider threat experience or Masters with 10+ years of prior relevant experience

- Minimum of 10+ years demonstrated knowledge of the intelligence cycle, analytic techniques, systems, processes, and organizations

- Minimum of 10+ years demonstrated knowledge of Threat Assessment & Mitigation Strategies

- Excellent written and verbal skills with ability to deliver briefings to a diverse group of audiences

- Knowledge of current domestic and international threats to U.S. national security interests

- Ability to establish networks with relevant security, personnel, and prevention stakeholders to foster program utilization

- Self-starter capable of working independently to promote program goals

- Working knowledge of User Activity Monitoring Software (UAM) and solutions

- Working knowledge of Cybersecurity toolsets designed to support ITP mission activities

- Working Knowledge of Open-Source toolsets

- Working Knowledge of Insider Threat Frameworks; Pathway to Violence & Critical Pathway

- Current TS/SCI and Must be a US Citizen

- Ability to obtain DHS EOD SCI and willingness to undergo CI Polygraph

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- Master’s degree from an accredited college or university in Criminal Justice, Homeland security, Cyber Security, or related field

- Proven experience in Intelligence Analysis

- Experience with User Activity Monitoring products and platforms

- Proven experience in Threat Assessment & Mitigation

- Certified Counter-Insider Threat Professional - Fundamentals (CCITP-F)

- Certified Counter-Insider Threat Professional - Analysis (CCITP-A)

- Completion of Center for Development of Security Excellence (CDSE) Insider Threat Detection Analysis Course (ITDAC)

- Completion of Workplace Assessment of Violence Risk (WAVR-21) Workshop

The pay range for this position is $105,300.00 - $190,350.00.

## Skills

### Required
- User Activity Monitoring
- Cybersecurity
- Insider Threat Frameworks
- Open-Source toolsets
- Threat Assessment & Mitigation Strategies
- Intelligence Analysis

### Nice to have
- Criminal Justice
- Homeland security
- Cyber Security
- Counter-Insider Threat Professional
- Centre for Development of Security Excellence

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