Contract/Location: National Capital Region / Pensacola, FL Overview:
NAIS LLC is seeking an experienced SOC Support Specialist to provide services on a contract supporting a U.S. Government agency. The ideal candidate will have excellent problem-solving and communications skills as well as a previous work history of identifying, investigating, and escalating alerts and events to safeguard sensitive information from unauthorized access or harm caused by cybercriminals or malicious insiders. This position requires a positive attitude, strong organizational skills, a drive to focus and produce results, and the ability to lead a team to meet objectives and foster strong customer relationships in a complex environment. This is a full-time salaried position with compensation to be based on experience and overall strength of the candidate. In addition to receiving a competitive salary and generous health and personal benefits, the opportunity offers the ability to enhance the selectee’s skill set among a talented and technically accomplished group of colleagues. On this contract, our team will support the U.S. Government agency across the following activities: 1) In collaboration with the client and security monitoring tools, investigate suspicious activity within IT systems and networks. Qualifications: • Clearance: Top Secret / SCI • Citizenship: Must be a U.S. Citizen. • Education: B.A./B.S. or M.A./M.S. degree from an accredited academic institution in a relevant field. An associate degree plus 4 years work experience may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree. • Experience: 3 years of experience required. • Preferred: Experience working in government IT and cybersecurity environments in U.S. civilian government or other federal government agencies. • One or More Certifications Required: ISACA Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) Certification, GCIH – GIAC Certified Incident Handler, GSOC – GIAC Security Operations Certified, GMON – GIAC Continuous Monitoring Certifications.
Core Duties: • Tracks and analyzes activity on servers, endpoints, networks, applications, databases, websites, and other technology systems. • Provides a critical layer of analysis needed to seek out any irregular activity that could suggest a security incident. • Ability to apply techniques for detecting host and network-based intrusions using intrusion detection technologies.