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Leidos is seeking an experienced Cyber Analyst to join our team covering both forensics and malware analysis on a highly-visible cyber security single-award IDIQ vehicle that provides network operations security center (NOSC) support, including monitoring and analysis, cyber threat intelligence, email analysis, forensics, incident response, and malware analysis

• Support investigating computer and information security incidents to determine extent of compromise to information and automated information systems.
• Conduct comprehensive analysis of all types of computer code, particularly malicious code to discover unknown, suspicious or exploitation activity.
• Collaborate with analytical counterparts and across the U.S. Intelligence Community and apply knowledge of network fundamentals, open-source tools, and current implementation of those technologies in order to devise strategies to pursue access and exploitation of targets of interest
• Help cross train and mentor other NOSC Support Staff.
• Participate in briefings to provide expert guidance on new threats.
• Author reports and/or interface with customers for ad-hoc requests
• Participate in discussions to make recommendations on improving NOSC visibility or process.

• Primary Responsibilities

• Perform long-term and time-sensitive in-depth technical analysis of malicious code (malware), analyze the inner workings, and develop defensive countermeasures.
• Conduct malware analysis using static and dynamic methodologies (e.g. debuggers [Ollydbg], disassembler [IDA Pro], sandbox execution, etc)
• Produce malware reports to disseminate to the watch floor and enterprise
• Perform technical analysis against target systems and networks, characterize target network capabilities and vulnerabilities, and support development of new techniques to exploit targets.
• Perform analyses of cyber activities to identify entities of interest; their methods, motives, and capabilities; determine malicious behavior; and recognize emergent patterns and linkages to visualize the larger picture of cyber-based operations.
• Discover unknown, suspicious or exploitation activity, and provide briefings of intrusion set activity to partner organizations/agencies.
• Write forensics and/or incident response reports, investigate computer attacks, and extract data from electronic systems.
• Perform technical analysis for exploitation of an identified activity that is of an unknown or suspicious origin.
• Train team members on analysis, tools and reporting.
• Work with the Splunk team to implement, enhance, or change existing use cases
• Pivot on the forensic data working with the Cyber Threat Intelligence team to determine if the malware is part of a larger campaign, how DHS is being targeted, and what further remediation is required
• Lead remote compromise assessments and produce final assessment report
• Provide input for NOSC improvement and identify visibility gaps for enterprise monitoring
• Potentially travel to other DHS locations (1-3 times/year) to support Incident Response investigations
• Develop and maintain SOPs and ROE templates

• Requires a minimum of a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, or related field PLUS eight (8) years of professional experience in incident detection and response, malware analysis, and/or cyber forensics.
• In lieu of BS Degree, 12 or more years continuous cyber network and vulnerability/malware analysis experience will be considered on a case by case basis in addition to required certifications.

• Experience in supporting malware analysis and forensics in cyber operations, and/or federal law enforcement.
• Experience reverse engineering and analyzing malware and developing a malware analysis report
• Understand and utilize Threat Intel Frameworks (e.g. Cyber Kill Chain, MITRE ATT&CK, Diamond Model)
• Hands-on experience with EnCase, Axiom, FTK, CrowdStrike Falcon, Volatility, Security Onion, Suricata, Splunk
• Signature (e.g. Snort, Yara, Suricata) development/tuning
• Proficient working in Windows and Linux operating systems
• Experience with any of the following Malware tools: Wireshark, OllyDBg, IDA Pro, RegShot, TCPDump, WinHex, Windbg, or PEid.
• Experience writing scripts/tools to develop an analysis capability to include applying basic analytic methods such as computer programming, (JAVA, Perl, C, etc.) and debugging programs.
• Experience related to the use of relevant CNO and SIGINT tools and databases used for the customer mission. Extensive knowledge about network ports and protocols (e.g. TCP/UDP, HTTP, ICMP, DNS, SMTP, etc)
• Experience with network topologies and network security devices (e.g. Firewall, IDS/IPS, Proxy, DNS, WAF, etc).

• Preferred Qualifications

• Previous experience working in a DHS or other federal government agency SOC/NOC/NOSC environment
• Knowledge of Cyber Kill Chain and MITRE ATT&CK frameworks