Night/Weekend SOC Analyst City Washington DC

ClearFocusTechnologies, a HUBZone certified company, is located in Leesburg, VA. We specialize in cybersecurity and support multiple government and commercial clients for a variety of missions. We value our clients, integrity and employees and believe a single person can make a difference! We are committed to attracting and retaining the best and brightest talent who desire to work with industry leading technology to stay on top of their profession. We provide an excellent benefit package which includes medical, dental, vision, paid time off, 401(k), paid professional development reimbursement and more! We are seeking SOC Analyst for multiple opportunities that are 100% onsite in Washington, DC. ALL APPLICANTS MUST HAVE AN ACTIVE TOP-SECRET CLEARANCE. NO EXCEPTIONS!!!! Must be willing to work 12-hour shifts Sun-Tues and every other Wed Thur-Sat and every other Wed Day Shift: 7am-7pm Night Shift: 7pm-7am You will be required to take an in-person hands‑on keyboard interview assessment to be considered 90-day probation period MUST be proficient in the following areas : Must have experience supporting 24x7x365 SOC or Cyber Watch operations. Must be a self‑starter and display the ability to research and find the answer “On your own”. Must be able to work with minimal to no supervision. Must be able to learn new technologies and techniques provided by the SOC Chief as well as “On your own”. Must be able to read, write, and comprehend at the intermediate level. Must be able to read, comprehend, and apply standard operating procedures, playbooks, and directives provided by the SOC Chief. Must have and understand and applied knowledge of the full Triage process to determine if an event is a true positive or false positive. Must be able to hypothesize during an event to determine an outcome. Must have basic - intermediate understanding of various cyber‑attacks (new and old) across various platforms and environments including Active Directory, Windows, Linux. Cloud is a plus. Must know how to perform basic‑intermediate Splunk searches in Splunk Enterprise Security to obtain various information as needed and/or requested by senior leadership. Must know how to perform basic‑intermediate threat hunting in Splunk for various cyber‑attacks including, but not limited to: User Behavior Analysis, Privileged User activity, Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) activity, and other ad hoc searches as needed and/or requested. Must be able to identify root‑cause using various native and security tools (Splunk Enterprise Security, Trellix, ACAS, SolarWinds). Must be able to read and comprehend various log types. Must be able to correlate logs to investigate various cyber events and incidents using native and security tools (Splunk Enterprise Security, Trellix, ACAS, SolarWinds). Must have basic - intermediate understanding and applied knowledge of networking fundamentals to include, but not limited to most common ports and protocols, what they are, and how they work. Must have a basic - intermediate understanding and applied knowledge of command line tools to obtain information needed for triage analysis including, but not limited to windows command line, Linux command line, PowerShell, etc. Prior Help desk and system administrators with ticket handling, Active Directory, and command line scripting experience preferred and are encouraged to apply. Education Requirements A bachelor's or higher degree is highly preferred and a DOD IAT II certification. Clearance Requirements Active Top-Secret with SCI/Q eligibility. #J-18808-Ljbffr