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 operations Subject Matter Expert for a new emerging cyber capability.
• Work directly with customer and commercial vendor cyber fusion/threat analyst teams to integrate new capabilities into defensive cyber operations
• Ensure cyber capability is effective in supporting desired mission outcomes.
• Provide critical integration between customer and commercial vendor teams
• Analyze Cyber Threat Intelligence or DoD orders and recommend actions to address emerging threats.

· Primary duty location is Defense Information Systems Agency, Ft. Meade, MD.
· 2+ years of experience in defensive cyber analyst role
· Current DoD 8570 IAT Level II Certification (ex. Sec+)
· Hands on SIEM experience, preferably with Splunk, to include configuration, query development, log review/analysis, and correlation of event data
· Experience with cyber operations and cyber operation planning processes
· Understands malicious cyber actor TTPs 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

· 5+ years of experience in cyber operations role - either offensive or defensive 
· Experience coordinating and/or executing real-world cyber operations 
· Penetration testing experience
· Technical briefing and writing skills