By Light provides a broad range of hardware, software, engineering, and IT integration services. Headquartered in McLean, VA, we support defense, civilian, commercial, and health IT customers worldwide.

• Provide direct mission support to government customers at Ft. Meade, MD.
• Serve as the cyber countermeasure Subject Matter Expert for a new cyber capability.
• Work directly with customer and commercial vendor cyber fusion/threat analyst teams to develop effective countermeasures addressing a wide range of priority and/or emerging cyber threats.
• Ensure countermeasures are effective in supporting desired mission outcomes.
• Provide critical integration between customer and commercial vendors teams

Analyze signatures (ex. YARA, Snort) in Cyber Threat Intelligence or DoD orders and assess new capability coverage for these threats.

· Primary duty location is Joint Force Headquarters (JFHQ), Ft. Meade, MD.

· 2+ years of experience in cyber analyst role

· Experience conducting malware analysis

· Experience developing behavioral threat signatures, such as YARA rules

· Experience with cyber operations and cyber operation planning processes

· Understands malicious cyber actor TTPs to include initial access and command-and-control

· Understands how to use cyber security tools and data to conduct defensive cyber operations

· Understands cyber threats and cyber threat frameworks such as Cyber Kill Chain and MITRE ATT&CK framework

· Understands Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) and how to integrate CTI into defensive cyber operations

· Hands on SIEM experience, preferably with Splunk, to include configuration, query development, log review/analysis, and correlation of event data

· 5+ years of experience in cyber analyst role, preferably supporting DGFC or JFHQ

· Experience with regex and signature development

· Experience with coding/scripting

· Cybersecurity certifications such as CISSP and/or GIAC certifications

· Splunk certifications

· Minimum Active Secret Clearance.

· Active TS and TS/SCI clearances are preferred