Cyber Hunt Team Lead

Salary: $160,000 - $180,000/year

Work location: Remote with possible ad hoc on site needs in Washington, DC.

Lead cyber-hunt and advanced security-analysis activities supporting Federal Student Aid cybersecurity operations. The Principal identifies, reports, and resolves security violations; develops and implements security doctrine and policy; evaluates security requirements; and leads the design, integration, implementation, and validation of secure system solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead proactive cyber-hunt activities across enterprise, cloud, endpoint, identity, application, workstation, mainframe, and network environments.
• Identify, report, investigate, and coordinate resolution of security violations and suspected malicious activity.
• Support senior customers in the development and implementation of cybersecurity doctrine, policies, standards, and procedures.
• Analyze and define security requirements for government and commercial common-user systems and dedicated special-purpose systems.
• Perform analysis, design, and development of security features for system architectures.
• Design, develop, engineer, integrate, and implement solutions that meet documented security requirements.
• Analyze information-assurance technical problems and direct engineering and technical support activities to resolve them.
• Perform vulnerability and risk analyses of computer systems and applications throughout the system development life cycle.
• Evaluate system functionality and security and recommend corrective actions, technical improvements, and risk treatments.
• Provide technical and management leadership, establish work plans and objectives, direct staff, and brief client and senior-management stakeholders.

• U.S. citizenship is required.
• More than 10 years of experience in the subject area.
• Bachelor's degree.
• Senior industry professional certification such as Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) or equivalent.
• Demonstrated domain expertise and technical or management leadership on major tasks or technology assignments.
• Experience establishing goals and plans that meet project objectives and directing activities to ensure technical requirements are met.
• Experience interacting with clients, conducting negotiations, and interfacing with senior management.

Preferred Qualifications 

• Advanced experience with SIEM, endpoint detection and response, network-security monitoring, cloud telemetry, identity telemetry, and threat-hunting methodologies.
• Experience with Splunk Enterprise, Tenable Security Center, Tanium, Forescout CounterACT, Titan or ELK, RSA Archer SecOps, Core Impact Pro, or EnCase.
• Experience applying MITRE ATT&CK to threat hunting, detection engineering, and adversary analysis.
• Advanced certifications such as GCFA, GCIH, GNFA, GDAT, or equivalent.

Clearance Requirement: Ability to obtain and maintain a High Risk Public Trust suitability determination.

The salary range for this position depends upon multiple factors including location, the individual's knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience, and contract-specific budget constraints and organizational requirements.
Gunnison Consulting Group's total compensation package also includes bonus and profit-sharing opportunities, depending on company and employee performance. Available employee benefits include:

• 3 weeks of Personal Leave your first year
• 11 paid Holidays each year
• 5 days of Flexible Time Off each year for approved training or certifications (self-study is ineligible)
• 401(k) company match at 50% up to 10% of your salary
• Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance
• Life and Disability Insurance
• Public Transportation Subsidies
• Certifications and Training Allowance - Up to $5,000/year!

Why Join Gunnison?

• Gunnison takes on ambitious projects. We target fun, challenging work that requires creative thinking and innovation.
• Quality is our top priority.
• Gunnison employee benefits meet or exceed what other companies in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area offer.
• There is a great sense of camaraderie at Gunnison. This is an atmosphere we will maintain as we continue to grow.
• We are growing rapidly and the opportunity for individual professional growth with Gunnison is outstanding.
• We hire for careers at Gunnison, not to fill a position.

Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Must be eligible for employment in the United States. We are unable to sponsor candidates at this time.
In 1994 Gunnison began serving the greater Washington, D.C. metro area, focused on tackling our customers' most ambitious technology projects. By creating a culture dedicated to enabling our customers and employees to achieve more than they ever thought they could, the company has thrived for over 25 years.