Cyber Security Engineer - Cyber Defense Professionals

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MITRE’s Center for Securing the Homeland (CSH) is looking for an Applied Cyber Security Engineer to work alongside a multi-domain team of developers, analysts, and investigators to enhance the security and safety of our nation’s cyber fabric and to support the homeland security mission. The Law Enforcement (LE) team is made up of driven, highly agile individuals, whose focus on applying and creating a diverse set of enabling technologies for tactical edge networks, ISR, LE all-source intelligence and Cybercrime investigations. Our team thrives when faced with LE mission challenges. Cyber operations analysis encompasses a wide range of cyber-crime information including large volumes of unstructured data, network activity logs, databases, forensic data, and leaked security data, all of which may be found in disparate areas – the dark web, web forums and chatrooms, and social media outlets. We are looking to bring on board someone who can leverage their experience in technical cyber operations to help our Sponsor take a more proactive approach in their efforts to identify, respond to, and prevent evolving cyber events.

Job Responsibilities (Required):

Conduct forensic analysis of assorted media (hard drives, USB drives, mobile devices, etc.).
Develop agile technical solutions to address sponsor initiatives.
Identify, extract, and analyze malware from media or network (PCAP) data.
Develop signatures for the detection of malicious activity.
Develop scripts/code for parsing large amounts of data (e.g., log files) to facilitate analysis.
Provide consulting to sponsor personnel on best practices pertaining to the above.
Reach-back to MITRE team and Corporation to bring in other relevant expertise.

Required Qualifications (Required)

Ability to conduct forensic analysis of a compromised system, to include the development of an intrusion timeline.
Capable of reading PCAP and conducting network traffic analysis.
Ability to conduct Netflow analysis, packet analysis, and network traffic manipulation.
Ability to develop signatures to detect malicious activity in network traffic.
Ability to script or write code to process large amounts of data and present it in a usable format.
Ability to develop other technical solutions to further cyber investigative goals.
Ability to work on site and interface positively with sponsors at all levels. Must be a self-starter with excellent communications skills and the ability to positively represent MITRE.
Must understand the fundamentals of TCP/IP communication.

Preferred Qualifications (Optional):

Ability to conduct static/dynamic malware analysis.
Ability to identify C2, dropper files, registry key modifications, DLL injection, etc. based on malware analysis.
Ability to identify malicious traffic in PCAP that may be a beacon, file upload, SQL injection, or password brute force attack.
Experience with the role of virtual currency in cyber investigations, how it is used by malicious actors, and processes involved in the analyzing activity from an investigator’s perspective.
The ability to quickly learn new skills and gain expertise across the team’s qualifications spectrum. Self-starter who is energized by new problems. Collaborative personality. Knowledge of or ability to learn Python strongly preferred.
Minimum Education/Experience BS

This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s):

This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s):

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