Cyber Operations Analyst

$80,001 - $80,001/Yr

SAIC - Beltsville, MD

Full-time - Mid Level

Beltsville, MD

10,001+ employees

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Cyber Operations Analyst at SAIC will support the Cybersecurity Integrity Center (CIC) within the Department of State Bureau of Diplomatic Technology. This role involves cybersecurity monitoring, threat analysis, incident response, and infrastructure remediation, requiring collaboration with various federal organizations and commercial partners. The position is primarily based in Beltsville, MD, with some duties in downtown Washington, D.C.

Responsibilities

• Utilize in-depth knowledge of cyber capabilities and the CIC process to identify, track, and resolve issues affecting training, exercises, and daily operations.
• Provide crisis action and deliberate planning support for offensive and defensive operations.
• Ensure exercise activities adhere to customer exercise plans, policies, and procedures to establish overall objectives, priorities, and plans for the joint exercise program.
• Synchronize plans and requirements with major exercises.
• Review and evaluate cyber policy directives/documents and issue papers.
• Assist customers with identifying and developing requirements.
• Provide technical research analysis and recommendations to develop cyberspace courses of action, tactics, techniques, and procedures to support cyberspace operations.
• Apply analytical methodologies to assess measures of performance for operation scenarios, develop documents such as after action reports, lessons observed and learned, as well as results and conclusions.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree and five (5) years or more of experience; additional experience may be accepted in lieu of a degree.
• Expertise in identifying, capturing, containing, and reporting on malware infections.
• Experience designing incident response for cloud service models.
• Experience performing damage assessments.
• Ability to recognize and categorize types of vulnerabilities and associated attacks.

Benefits

• Competitive salary range of $80,001 - $120,000 based on experience and other factors.
• Ongoing application acceptance with no deadline for submissions.
• No COVID-19 vaccination requirement, but customer site vaccination requirements must be followed.