Detection Engineering SME

Sentar - Quantico, VA

Full-time - Mid Level

Quantico, VA

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Detection Engineering SME position at Sentar involves supporting a government contract by providing Cyber Security Service Provider (CSSP) functions. The role focuses on creating detection use cases to enhance the government's ability to identify and respond to malicious activities on its network, utilizing various cybersecurity tools and frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Provide 8x5 support to produce detection use cases for Incident Detection Monitoring personnel.
• Utilize logs and alerts from various sources to detect malicious or unauthorized activity on the network.
• Leverage tools such as Snort, Regex, and YARA to detect and alert on malicious activity.
• Modify detection use cases, rules, or signatures to reduce false positives based on alert analysis.
• Support the analysis and correlation of a high volume of events to identify incidents.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or IT related field or at least five years of demonstrated experience in supporting DCO and/or network systems and technology.
• At least five years of experience with development and refinement of signatures, plays, policies, configurations, scripts, and indicators for network and host-based detection.
• Experience leading operations and maintenance support for an enterprise-level network with a minimum of 50k users.
• DODD 8570 IAT III certification (CASP+, CCNP Security, CISA, CISSP, GCED, GCIH, or CCSP).
• DODD 8570 CSSP Analyst certification (CEH, CFR, CCNA Cyber Ops, CCNA-Security, CySA+, GCIA, GCIH, GICSP, Cloud+, SCYBER, PenTest+).
• Experience in a SOC working with SIEM/SOAR and analyzing incidents created by signatures.
• Experience writing signatures (Yara/Snort) for network and host IDS/IPS.
• Knowledge of Windows OS, network traffic, and firewall operation.

Nice-to-haves

• Microsoft cloud security training is highly recommended.

Benefits

• Voluntary Medical, Dental, Vision, with Health Savings or Flexible Spending Plan options
• Voluntary Life, Critical Illness, Accident, and Long Term Care insurance options
• Group Term Life, Short-Term and Long-Term Disability provided by Sentar
• Generous 401(k) match
• Competitive PTO plan that graduates quickly with years of service
• Other leave programs including holiday schedule, bereavement, jury, and military duty
• Mental health awareness programs
• Tuition reimbursement
• Professional development reimbursement
• Recognition and Awards programs