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Defensive Cyber Operations (DCO) Analyst

Tyto Athene, LLC
Colorado, CO Full Time
POSTED ON 7/25/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 8/23/2026

Tyto Athene has an opening for a Defensive Cyber Analyst to support the United States Space Force (USSF) D6 Contract by providing continuous Cybersecurity Monitoring, Intrusion Detection and Cyber Incident Responses.



Responsibilities:

  • Analyze cyber incidents, correlate incident details and formulate response actions.
  • Provide recommendations on tuning and maximizing capability of existing tools, while providing recommendations for other tools to increase capability.
  • Monitor government provided DCO tools and systems.
  • Conduct after action processes to capture efforts taken to mitigate unauthorized actions.
  • Participate in development of DCO Tactics, Techniques and Procedures (TTPs).
  • Participate in development of DCO concept of operations, processes and procedures.
  • Identify security discrepancies and report security incidents.
  • Provide expert research and analysis in support of expanding programs and area of responsibility.



Required:

  • Minimum of one (1) active DoD 8570.07-M Cyber Security Services Provider (CSSP) "Analyst" or "Incident Responder" certifications:
  • CEH, CySA , GCIH, GCIA, CFR, CCNA Cyber Ops, CCNA-Security, GICSP, Cloud , SCYBER, PenTest , CHFI or GCFA
  • 1-3 years of Cybersecurity/IT experience
  • Experience performing Continuous Cybersecurity Monitoring, Intrusion Detection and Cyber Incident Response.
  • Cybersecurity Service Provider (CSSP) experience is preferred.
  • Familiarity with Space Operations is highly desired.
  • Experience with the following tools:
  • Elastic Stack, Kibana, Suricata, Splunk, Snort, Wireshark, Bro/Zeek logs, tcpdump, editcap, ACAS, Microsoft Office 365, Python or Bash scripting.



Clearance: Active DoD TS/SCI clearance



Location: Schriever Space Force Base (SFB), CO

Salary : $100,000 - $115,000

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