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Cyber Defense Analyst, Top Secret Clearance (Level 1)

Orlando, Florida

Orlando, Florida

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Job ID: 664817BR Date posted: Apr. 15, 2024
Description:Lockheed Martin Enterprise Operations is seeking a Cyber Incident Responder to join our team on a highly visible enterprise environment that provides security operations center (SOC) support, cyber analysis, application development, and an extended hours support staff with the mission of defending the enterprise’s computing assets. The Classified Cybersecurity Operations (C2Ops) Center is an Enterprise Operations team responsible to monitor, detect, analyze, mitigate, and respond to cyber threats and adversarial activity across multiple Enterprise environments.

Duties include supporting, coordinating and acting as the initial point of contact for security operations floor activities. Will assist with developing, maintaining, tuning, and monitoring cyber security content for detection and prevention capabilities. Will support investigating computer and information security incidents to determine the extent of compromise to information and automated information systems. Will provide network forensic and intrusion detection support to high technology investigations in the form of researching and maintaining proficiency in tools, techniques, countermeasures, and trends in computer network vulnerabilities, data hiding and network security and encryption. In addition, the Analyst will lead and mentor other SOC Support Staff and will communicate with executive leadership regarding matters of significant importance to the enterprise environments. The Analyst should have expertise in monitoring and detection, and incident response to support detection, containment, and eradication of malicious activities targeting customer networks.

The ideal candidate for this position has proven experience working both independently and as part of a team. The responsibilities of this role include, but are not limited to:

• Provide support in the detection, response, mitigation, and reporting of cyber incidents
• Thorough documentation of cyber incident analysis at an operational level
• Support cyber defense initiatives, analytical research and hardening across the enterprise
• Consistent and effective communication across the team, with stakeholders, and leadership
• Manage priorities and workloads with established accountability to deliverables
Basic Qualifications:
• Minimum of current Top Secret clearance with ability to obtain a Counterintelligence Polygraph.
• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college in a related discipline, or equivalent experience/combined education.
• Ability to successfully complete additional enhanced security review in accordance with Government contract requirements and it is a condition of employment that individuals hired into positions requiring program clearance obtain and maintain such clearance within sufficient time to allow Lockheed Martin to meet its business needs.
• Must meet DoD 8140 certification and training standards as directed by policy and/or contractual agreements
• Understanding of malware functionality, static and dynamic analysis, and detection signatures
• Understanding of operating systems: file structures, processes, services, and application execution
• Ability to perform focused research and analysis to write complete, accurate, relevant and timely cyber incident reports to support network defense
• Knowledge of Host and Network Forensics
• Knowledge of cyber defensive tools and technologies to include: Firewalls, Data Loss Prevention (DLP), Intrusion Detection/Prevention Systems (IDS/IPS), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)
• Strong Communication skills are essential
• Able to support first or second shift schedule and provide periodic surge/shift work to support extended hours SOC as required
Desired Skills:
- Previous experience working in DoD/Government environments
- Holds DoD 8570 IAT – level 2 or higher certification and CSSP-A certification
- Experience with Cloud Security (AWS/Azure)
- Experience with Security Incident and Event Management (SIEM) tools (e.g. Splunk/ELK)
- Understanding of basic usage of languages such as Python, Powershell, Bash for automation and data analysis
- A working understanding of cyber threat intelligence platforms to collect and correlate cyber threat information
- Understanding of threat models and attacker tactics, techniques, and protocols
Security Clearance Statement: This position requires a government security clearance, you must be a US Citizen for consideration.
Clearance Level: Top Secret with Investigation or CV date within 5 years
Other Important Information You Should Know
Expression of Interest: By applying to this job, you are expressing interest in this position and could be considered for other career opportunities where similar skills and requirements have been identified as a match. Should this match be identified you may be contacted for this and future openings.
Ability to Work Remotely: Part-time Remote Telework: The employee selected for this position will work part of their work schedule remotely and part of their work schedule at a designated Lockheed Martin facility. The specific weekly schedule will be discussed during the hiring process.
Work Schedules: Lockheed Martin supports a variety of alternate work schedules that provide additional flexibility to our employees. Schedules range from standard 40 hours over a five day work week while others may be condensed. These condensed schedules provide employees with additional time away from the office and are in addition to our Paid Time off benefits.
Schedule for this Position: 4x10 hour day, 3 days off per week
Lockheed Martin is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.
The application window will close in 90 days; applicants are encouraged to apply within 5 - 30 days of the requisition posting date in order to receive optimal consideration.
At Lockheed Martin, we use our passion for purposeful innovation to help keep people safe and solve the world's most complex challenges. Our people are some of the greatest minds in the industry and truly make Lockheed Martin a great place to work.

With our employees as our priority, we provide diverse career opportunities designed to propel, develop, and boost agility. Our flexible schedules, competitive pay, and comprehensive benefits enable our employees to live a healthy, fulfilling life at and outside of work. We place an emphasis on empowering our employees by fostering an inclusive environment built upon integrity and corporate responsibility.

If this sounds like a culture you connect with, you’re invited to apply for this role. Or, if you are unsure whether your experience aligns with the requirements of this position, we encourage you to search on Lockheed Martin Jobs, and apply for roles that align with your qualifications.
Experience Level: Experienced Professional
Business Unit: CORPORATE HEADQUARTERS
Relocation Available: Possible
Career Area: Cyber Security
Type: Full-Time
Shift: Second
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About

Lockheed Martin is the leader of cyber security defense, cyber operations and sensitive data protection. We employ the world's best cyber minds from diverse fields – people who are passionate about and empowered by our customers' missions. Lockheed Martin's best-in-cyber teams are experts in thinking like the enemy – identifying adversary activity and anticipating advanced persistent threats to strengthen platform defenses, inside and out of our networks.

Our Commitment to Sustainability: We foster innovation, integrity and security to preserve the environment, strengthen diverse communities and propel growth.

Here, the possibilities are endless because we offer:

  • Full Time
  • Level: Entry, Mid, Senior
  • Travel: Minimal, dependent on role

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Qualifications

What does a successful Cyber Security employee at Lockheed Martin look like?
Check out the info below to see if you have what it takes.

  • Analytical

    Advancing technologies and out of the box thinking that enable cyber operations, resulting in inventing solutions that will keep us safe today and into the future.

  • Creative

    Natural curiosity is an absolutely essential trait. Curiosity leads to continual learning which allows you to stay one step ahead of the threat.

  • Curious

    The ability to anticipate hackers’ intent and disrupt their next move is key. Seeking out new weaknesses before they become weaknesses. Proactively learning and updating systems is how we stay ahead of the threat.

  • Proactive

    We have hard problems to solve and we look for people who thrive at solving them, who can see problems from both the defensive and offensive sides.

  • Problem Solver

    Whatever you know today could be different tomorrow as security is constantly changing. Possessing strong technical skills and intellectual depth along with a willingness to continually learn from others is important to adapt to and address the Advanced Persistent Threat.

  • Technologically savvy

    The ability to analyze and disseminate threat intelligence. The ability to analyze and address the root cause, learn from the attack and anticipate the hacker’s next move.

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Quote

“Cyber is the most exciting career field! Every day, there's new cyber threat information that we leverage to shape our courses of action when identifying, assessing, developing, integrating, and continuously evaluating the effectiveness of defensive measures.”

Dr. Dawn B., Senior Fellow

Benefits

  • Healthcare

    Medical, Dental and Vision coverage is available for employees who opt-in.

  • 401(k)/Retirement Plans

    Our 401(k) plan features generous matching and company contributions.

  • Professional Development

    We support our employees through mentoring, internal & external educational programs, networking, skills enhancement and career-building programs, funding for cyber certifications.

  • Maternity and Paternity Leave

    Our generous parental leave policies support your journey into parenthood. When you return to work, our facilities offer mother's rooms to support your transition and work/life balance.

  • Paid Time Off

    We offer PTO, paid holidays and paid time off for jury duty and military obligations.

  • Flex-time

    Depending on the position, we offer flexible work schedules.

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