Detection Engineer Analyst Subject Matter Expert (SME)

About the role

Resource Management Concepts, Inc. (RMC) provides high-quality, professional services to government and commercial sectors. Our mission is to deliver exceptional management and technology solutions supporting the protection and preservation of the people and environment of the United States of America.

Responsibilities

• Develop detection use cases based on current threats, the MITRE ATT&CK framework, and government direction
• Review incident reporting to tune related detection use cases as necessary
• Review Security information and event management (SIEM)/ Security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR) incident queue for unnecessary events and alerts and implement corrective actions
• Identify gaps in logging and detection capabilities across attack surface
• Affiliate in implementing new log ingestion and verify proper parsing and normalization of data in SIEM/SOAR
• Create high fidelity correlation rules, signatures, filters, and automations and maintain low false-positive rate

Requirements

• Required: Active TS/SCI (DoD TOP SECRET clearance with Sensitive Compartmented Information access) eligibility is required. Applicant selected will be subject to security investigation(s) and must maintain eligibility requirements for access to classified information
• Bachelor's in IT or Computer Science OR 5 years' supporting DCO and/or network systems and technology
• DoD 8570 IAT Level III certification
• DoD 8570 CSSP Analyst certification
• 5 years' experience with development/refinement of signatures, plays, policies, configurations, scripts and indicators used to identify malicious activity via network and host-based detection on the enterprise network
• Experience leading operations and maintenance support for an enterprise-level (50k users) network
• Experience writing signatures (e.g., KQL/Snort/ePO/Yara) for network and host IDS/IPS

Desired

• Military or civilian experience with Microsoft Cloud Security training is highly recommended
• Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Defender XDR
• Microsoft Sentinel Ninja Training
• Microsoft Defender For Endpoint Ninja Training
• Microsoft Defender For Identity Ninja Training
• Microsoft SC-XXX Training (certifications)

Schedule

M-F, 5 X 8, between 7:00am EST and 5:00pm EST, normally not to exceed 40 hours per week. This position may require extended or non-standard hours occasionally to support major cyber incidents. This position is considered essential and may be required to report during hazardous weather, power outages, fuel shortages, pandemics, and other emergencies.

Benefits

• Monday to Friday full-time day shift work
• Can assist in paid relocation
• Competitive paid vacation package with 11 paid federal holidays
• High-quality, low-deductible healthcare plans
• Pet insurance
• Competitive 401K package

Pay

The current salary range for this position will be $130,000 to $150,000 (annually).