Incident Manager III

Title: Incident Manager III

Description:  
Solutions³ LLC is supporting our prime contractor and their U.S. Government customer to provide support for onsite incident response to civilian Government agencies and critical asset owners who experience cyber-attacks, providing immediate investigation and resolution.   
 
Solutions³ LLC is seeking an Incident Manager III to perform investigations to characterize the severity of breaches, develop mitigation plans, and assist with the restoration of services.
Eligibility:  

• Must be a  US Citizen  
• Must have an  active TS/SCI   clearance
• Must be able to obtain DHS Suitability  prior to starting employment   
• 5+ years of directly relevant experience in cyber incident management or cybersecurity operations

Responsibilities Include:  

• Supporting the management of cyber incidents through the incident response lifecycle
• Creating and maintaining routine reporting of cyber incidents in official systems of record, to include case management systems and ticketing
• Coordinating with internal and external customers, partners, and stakeholders
• Ingesting, validating, and evaluating information to determine optimal courses of action, to include providing response support to requesting entities
• Updating and tracking cases and tickets with accuracy, timeliness, reliability, and consistency
• Drafting summaries of ongoing operations and providing oral presentations for various levels of leadership.
• Maintaining knowledge objects in system of record consistently and professionally
• Supporting teams that apply risk management and protocols to evaluate risks and prioritize responses based on national security strategies (NCISS)
• Supporting teams conducting threat and vulnerability management to recognize and categorize types of vulnerabilities, threat actors, and different operational threat environments, and associated attacks (MITRE ATT&CK framework)
• Supporting teams performing network security monitoring and/or security operations analysis, system administration, operating system hardening, cyber hygiene techniques, and cybersecurity defense policies, procedures, and regulations

Required Skills:  

• Knowledge of incident response and handling methodologies
• Having close familiarity with NIST 800-62 (latest revision), and FISMA standards as they pertain to reporting incidents.
• Knowledge of the NCCIC National Cyber Incident Scoring System to be able to prioritize triaging of incident
• Knowledge of general attack stages (e.g., foot printing and scanning, enumeration, gaining access, escalation of privileges, maintaining access, network exploitation, covering tracks, etc.)
• Skill in recognizing and categorizing types of vulnerabilities and associated attacks
• Knowledge of basic system administration and operating system hardening techniques, Computer Network Defense policies, procedures, and regulations
• Knowledge of different operational threat environments (e.g., first generation [script kiddies], second generation [non nation-state sponsored], and third generation [nation-state sponsored])
• Knowledge of system and application security threats and vulnerabilities (e.g., buffer overflow, mobile code, cross-site scripting, PL/SQL and injections, race conditions, covert channel, replay, return- oriented attacks, and malicious code)
• Excellent oral and written communication skills

Desired Skills:  

• Familiarity with different operational threat environments (e.g., first generation [script kiddies], second generation [non nation-state sponsored], and third generation [nation-state sponsored])
• Familiarity with system and application security threats and vulnerabilities (e.g., buffer overflow, mobile code, cross-site scripting, PL/SQL and injections, race conditions, covert channel, replay, return- oriented attacks, and malicious code)
• Familiarity with of basic operating system hardening techniques, Computer Network Defense policies, procedures, and regulations

Desired Certifications: Security+, GCIH
Required Education: BS Incident Management, Operations Management, Cybersecurity or related degree. HS Diploma with 7+ years of incident management or cyber security experience