[Remote] Senior Cyber Threat Analyst III (No C2C, must be US Citizen)

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Lifescale Analytics is a small business that provides specialized expertise in data and analytics. They are seeking a Cyber Threat Analyst III to monitor and investigate cyber security events, perform triage on security escalations, and implement automation use cases leveraging AI/ML capabilities.

Responsibilities
• Responsible for performing triage on all security escalations and detections to determine scope, severity, and root cause
• Monitor cyber security events, detecting incidents, and investigating incidents
• Identify, recommend strategies, develop, and implement automation use cases leveraging AI/ML capabilities
• Support deploying, configuring, testing, and maintaining Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) platform, and tools integrated with AI/ML capabilities to enhance threat detection, analysis and response
• Provide support to contract Program Manager, as necessary
• Effectively communicates technical information to non-technical audiences
• Influence others to comply with policies and conform to standards and best practices

Skills
• A minimum of eight (8) to twelve (12) years' relevant experience
• 7+ years of experience with security operations, threat hunting, and incident response
• Experience in analyzing alerts from Cloud, SIEM, EDR, and XDR tools, and alerts tuning process with preference on SentinelOne, Armis, and Splunk
• Experience in configuring network devices and analyzing network traffic
• Experience with Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) based security tools
• Experience in researching, developing, and implementing SOAR use cases
• Familiar with Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) platform
• Familiarity with cybersecurity operation center functions
• Experience configuring and re-configuring security tools, including SenintelOne and Splunk
• Experience implementing Security frameworks, such as MITRE ATT&CK and NIST, and can interpret use cases into actionable monitoring solutions
• Strong working knowledge of: Develop, test and Implement dynamic Risk-Based Alerting (RBA)
• Identifying and developing RBA and identifying use cases for SOAR and AI/ML
• Monitor and analyze alerts from various sources such as IDS/IPS, Splunk, Tanium, MS Defender, SentinelOne and Cloud security tools leveraging SOAR and AI/ML capabilities and provide recommendation for further tuning of these alerts when necessary
• Analyze network traffic utilizing available tools and provide recommendations
• Perform vulnerability assessments of recently discovered CVEs against USPS systems and network
• Assist in the process of configuring or re-configuring the security tools
• Perform analysis on hosts running on a variety of platforms and operating systems, to include, but not limited to, Microsoft Windows, UNIX, Linux, as well as embedded systems and mainframes
• Assist in the construction of signatures which can be implemented on cyber defense network tools in response to new or observed threats within the network environment or enclave
• Test, evaluate, and verify hardware and/or software to determine compliance with defined specifications and requirements
• A degree from an accredited College/University in the applicable field of services is required. If the individual's degree is not in the applicable field, then four additional years of related experience is required
• MUST have one or more of the following Certification(s): CISSP, CISA, CISM, GIAC, RHCE
• Pass a client mandated clearance process to include drug screening, criminal history check and credit check
• Candidates cannot have more than 6 months travel outside the United States within the last five years. Military Service excluded. (Exception does not include military family members.)
• All candidates must be a US Citizen or permanent status Green Card holder

Company Overview
• Lifescale Analytics (LSA) provides specialized expertise in data and analytics to help accelerate research and development processes. It was founded in 2012, and is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, with a workforce of 51-200 employees. Its website is http://www.lifescaleanalytics.com/.

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