SOC Analyst Mid or Senior

Perrygo is a small, rapidly growing company; we are passionate about our employees as well as supporting our customers and their mission. We are excited for the opportunity to bring aboard highly motivated and energetic individuals to join our teams. Currently, we are seeking a SOC Analyst Mid Level. This role supports our Navy customer in Lexington Park, MD.

Job Description and Responsibilities: 

Functional Responsibility/Principal Duties: Provide timely detection, identification, and alerting of possible attacks/intrusions, anomalous activities, and misuse activities and distinguish these incidents and events from benign activities. Implement and manage multiple security tools to include SIEM’s, firewalls, IDS/IPS’s, threat and vulnerability management tools, data loss prevention tools, filtering technologies, traffic inspection solutions, reporting technology and data analytics platforms. Use cyber defense tools for continual monitoring and analysis of system to identify malicious activity.

Document and escalate incidents (including event’s history, status, and potential impact for further action) that may cause ongoing and immediate impact to the environment. Analyze identified malicious activity to determine weaknesses exploited, exploitation methods, effects on system and information. Perform event correlation using information gathered from a variety of sources within the enterprise to gain situational awareness and determine the effectiveness of an observed attack. Conduct research, analysis, and correlation across a wide variety of all source data sets (indications and warnings). Receive and analyze network alerts from various sources within the enterprise and determine possible causes of such alerts.

Perform cyber defense trend analysis and reporting. Characterize and analyze network traffic to identify anomalous activity and potential threats to network resources. Coordinate with enterprise-wide cyber defense staff to validate network alerts. Identify and analyze anomalies in network traffic using metadata. Provide daily summary reports of network events and activity relevant to cyber defense practices. Identify applications and operating systems of a network device based on network traffic. Threat research, OSINT, and classified sources for TTPS, IOCs and signatures for monitoring and alerting. RMF/CONMON support to aid in the mitigation of findings. Supporting engineering to ensure network designs and operations are secure from inception to production.

Basic Requirements:

Mid-Level Requirements: At least 1 of the GCIA/GCIH/GCDA/GSOC/GCED/CYSA or equivalent certs, OS and Comptia Net in addition to 5 years applicable work experience.

Must be able to maintain DoD-8140 Compliance.          


 Education Requirements: Bachelors or Masters dependent upon level. Substitutions include Associate’s Degree plus 2 years’ additional work experience may be substituted for a Bachelor’s Degree. High school diploma or GED and/or a relevant technical certification plus 4 years’ additional work experience may be substituted for a Bachelor’s Degree. Bachelor’s Degree plus 5 years additional work experience may be
substituted for a Master’s Degree.

Certifications: See required experience section. 

Preferred Skills and Experience:  None

Security Clearance: Top Secret SSBI (must be a US Citizen)  None

Telework and Travel: On site 100%. < 5% travel. Telework may be approved in the future.

Contract: This position is supporting an active, funded contract. 

Perrygo Consulting Group, LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer, for all individuals, including protected veterans and those with disabilities. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.

Perrygo Consulting Group, LLC participates in E-Verify.

If being a part of a small, growing company while having the opportunity to work on exciting projects with challenging tasks excites you – then please apply today!

Compensation Package - We offer an excellent compensation package with competitive salaries and meaningful benefits, including:

• Paid Time Off (PTO)/Sick Leave
• 11 Paid Holidays
• Flexible Work Schedules (offering a healthy work-life balance whenever possible)
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Medical, Dental, and Vision
• LTD/STD, AD&D, and Life-Employer Paid
• Supplemental Life and Accident options
• Health Savings Account (HSA) with employer contribution
• 401K Plan with employer Safe Harbor contribution
• Profit Sharing Plan