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Vana Solutions is Hiring a SIEM Cybersecurity Analyst Near Colorado, CO
About The Company
Vana is an information technology services company headquartered in Beavercreek, Ohio. Vana delivers technical solutions supporting complex organizational objectives while solving business-driven challenges.
Job Summary
We are seeking a motivated, career and customer-oriented Cybersecurity Analyst to join our team supporting USAFA. The Cybersecurity Analyst supports the client by engineering, developing, deploying, and maintaining the organization’s Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) implementation and its minor applications, integration, apps, and interfaces. The candidate will possess mastery of the SIEM tool, with technical expertise including hands-on solution development and implementation experience, and analytical skills for evaluating and optimizing capabilities of securing application solutions. The candidate will perform incident response activities and ensure that proper protection or corrective measures have been taken when an incident has been discovered. The candidate will be a critical team member with proven leadership, communication, critical thinking, problem-solving, organizational and interpersonal skills. The candidate must have the ability to multitask and solve complex technical problems.
Duties include but are not limited to:
Implement, optimize, and maintain the SIEM infrastructure, and deploy products, apps, reports, alerts, and dashboards utilizing business best practices and methodologies
Develop, maintain, and optimize installation of internal and external SIEM components
Increase the efficiency of the infrastructure to connect more enterprise data sources to the SIEM application and associated add-on components
Oversee the optimization, operation, and health of SIEM components and connections to data sources
Manage events in multiple systems, applications, and other priorities by exercising multi-tasking skills and critical thinking
Implement industry best practices and innovative ideas leading to continuous improvement of the environment
Analyze events using data collected from a variety of cyber tools (including intrusion detection system alerts, firewall and network traffic logs, and host system logs)
Provision, patch, tune, and monitor SIEM application
Improve automation and SIEM/Incident Response processes
Test the accuracy of the alarms; conduct long-term analysis of triggered alerts
Ability to understand all SIEM inputs/data sources
Establish and control the efficient interaction of the various cloud-based security analytics systems
In-depth analyses of all security data must be defined and implemented
Automate response activities must be planned and implemented
Update and maintain documentation including the Incident Response Plan
Investigate and analyze all response activities related to cyber incidents
Test, implement, deploy, configure, and maintain data loss prevention (DLP) services
Work in conjunction with the team to enhance response capabilities through development of playbooks, deployment of technology, or assisting with automation efforts
Required Qualifications:
8-10 years of related experience
Experience designing, implementing, and maintaining SIEMs (e.g. Splunk or SolarWinds)
Experience optimizing applications to reduce impact on resources
Experience with SIEM administration, configuration, tuning large environments
Experience with the Incident Response Life Cycle (NIST SP 800-61)
DoD 8140 (DoD 8570) IAT II & Cyber Defense Analyst certifications
Secret security clearance
Must be a US citizen
Desired Qualifications:
Bachelors in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Systems or similar degree/experience
Advanced Cyber Defense Analyst certifications (GCFA or GCIA)
Expert SIEM application and dashboard developer using complex data searches
Firm understanding of data flows and interconnections between multiple systems within the network environment
Ability to communicate complex information, concepts, or ideas in a confident and well-organized manner through verbal, written, and/or visual means
Skilled in developing or recommending analytic approaches or solutions to problems and situations for which information is incomplete or for which no precedent exists
Ability to focus research efforts to meet the customer’s decision-making needs