Cyber Defense Analyst – Real Time

Location: Mays Landing, NJ, United States
Organization: Exelon Business Servcs Co, LLC
Job ID: 237793
Date Posted: Mar 18, 2022
Job: Security

Job Description

Description

At Exelon, we’ve got a place for you!

Join the nation’s leading competitive energy provider, with one of the largest electricity generation portfolios and retail customer bases in the country. You will be part of a family of companies that strives for the highest standards of power generation, competitive energy sales, and energy delivery. Our team of outstanding professionals is focused on performance, thought leadership, innovation, and the power of ideas that come from a diverse and inclusive workforce.

Exelon will provide you the tools and resources you need to design, build and enhance a successful career. We are also dedicated to motivating the success of our employees through competitive base salary, incentives, and health and retirement benefits.

Join Exelon and share your passion at a forward-thinking Fortune 100 company. Establish yourself in a place where you can truly shine and create a brighter, more sustainable tomorrow. Energize your career at Exelon!

PRIMARY PURPOSE OF POSITION

Perform the security monitoring process and escalate relevant issues to the Cyber Defense Team Lead – Real Time. Identify potential security incidents and forward to the appropriate team for further analysis. Uses data collected from a variety of cyber defense tools (e.g., IDS alerts, firewalls, network traffic logs.) to analyze events that occur within their environments for the purposes of mitigating threats.

– Perform cyber security monitoring of Industrial Control/SCADA systems with established monitoring tools including Industrial Defender and Splunk. 25%
– Perform tracking of cyber events as required for NERC CIP Compliance. 25%
– Interface with various business entities to determine nature of detected cyber events, perform detailed analysis on cyber events and advise entities on methods to improve security posture. 10%
– Create detailed documentation on use of monitoring systems, topology and details of business entity ICS/SCADA systems, and performance of NERC CIP logging monitoring and alerting processes. 10%
– Provide daily summary reports of network events and activity relevant to cyber defense practices. Use cyber defense tools for continual monitoring and analysis of system activity to identify malicious activity. 10%
– Remain up-to-date on the latest security information in order to validate the security analysis & identification capabilities of the security operations technologies. 10%
– Participate in efforts to analyze & define security filters & rules for a variety of security parameters. 10%

Qualifications

POSITION SPECIFICATIONS

Minimum:
– Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related 4-year technical degree and 2 – 5 years of IT or Cyber Security experience, or equivalent combination of education and work experience.
– Knowledge of information technology (IT) security principles and methods, such as firewalls, demilitarized zones, and encryption.
– Knowledge of operating systems.
– Knowledge of how traffic flows across the network (e.g., Transmission Control Protocol [TCP] and Internet Protocol [IP], Open System Interconnection Model [OSI], Information Technology Infrastructure Library, current version [ITIL]).
– Knowledge of common network tools (e.g., ping, traceroute, nslookup) and interpret the information results.
– Knowledge of operating system command line/prompt.
– Knowledge of Windows/Unix ports and services.
– Knowledge of computer networking concepts and protocols, and network security methodologies.
– Comprehensive knowledge of common networking protocols: HTTP, DNS, DHCP, SMTP, NTP, SSH, FTP.

Preferred:
– Knowledge of system and application security threats and vulnerabilities (e.g., buffer overflow, mobile code, cross-site scripting, Procedural Language/Structured Query Language [PL/SQL] and injections, race conditions, covert channel, replay, return-oriented attacks, malicious code).
– Knowledge of cyber defense and vulnerability assessment tools, including open source tools, and their capabilities.
– Skill in performing packet-level analysis (e.g., Wireshark, tcpdump, etc.).
– Knowledge of network systems management principles, models, methods (e.g., end-to-end systems performance monitoring), and tools.
– Knowledge of Intrusion Detection System (IDS)/Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) tools and applications.
– Knowledge of intrusion detection methodologies and techniques for detecting host and network-based intrusions via intrusion detection technologies.

POSITION SCOPE
Provide near real-time monitoring of business centric risks to Exelon by identifying potential security incidents from security alerts.

Exelon is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and employees or applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to: age, color, disability, gender, national origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status, or any other classification protected by federal, state, or local law.

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