Senior Security Operations Analyst

Location: 550 12th Street SW, Washington, DC 20024, United States. \ Job Category: OPS \ Employee Type: Exempt \ Required Degree: 4 Year Degree \ Travel Requirement: 100% \ Description \ As a Senior Security Operations Analyst, you play a critical role in safeguarding our organization's digital assets. You lead efforts to detect, analyze, and respond to security incidents, and you contribute to the continuous improvement of our security posture. Your expertise ensures the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of our systems and data. \ Requirements \ \ Perform all security analysis activities according to established standards. \ Maintain threat awareness and monitor NIGC information systems for exploits and any suspicious activities; analyze aggregated logs and reports from security tools. \ Develop a daily security analysis and reporting checklist and execute activities identified in the checklist. \ Evaluate effectiveness of security analysis activities compared to best practices and recommend improvements. \ Adhere to Continuous Monitoring practices to evaluate the effectiveness of implemented security controls and execute proactive threat hunting activities to ensure confidentiality, integrity, and availability of NIGC information systems. \ Develop detection and response configuration policies to increase automation and alerting. \ Develop Incident handling procedures. \ Execute Incident Response activities to include all associated actions according to the NIGC incident response plan. \ Validate that sufficient and relevant information is captured and retained from security tools to support actionable security awareness and incident investigations. \ Collect security operations performance and NIGC security posture management metrics and prepare NIGC threat reports to inform risk management decisions. \ Must be a United States citizen; Sierra7 will not provide sponsorship for employment-based immigration benefits. \ This position is not a C2C opportunity. \ \ Education & Experience \ \ Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Security, or a related field. \ A minimum of six (6) years of continuous, progressively responsible experience in cybersecurity, security operations, or a related information security field, including experience in threat monitoring, incident response, and continuous monitoring within enterprise environments. \ Proven experience in incident response and security analysis. \ Security certifications such as CISSP, CISM, or Security+. \ \ Benefits \ \ FSA (Flexible Spending Account) \ HSA (Health Savings Account) \ Life Insurance, Voluntary Life Insurance, Voluntary Short- and Long-Term Disability \ Additional Supplemental Medical Benefits \ Critical Care, Hospital Indemnity, Legal Plan, Accident \ \ \ 401K \ Legal Assistance \ Paid Time Off (PTO) \ Education Reimbursement \ Employee Referral Program \ \ Equal Opportunity \ Sierra7 is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any status protected by federal, state, or local law. Equal Opportunity Employer Veterans Disabled. \ Disclaimer \ The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. #J-18808-Ljbffr