Cyber Analyst
Barbaricum is a rapidly growing government contractor providing leading-edge support to federal customers, with a particular focus on Defense and National Security mission sets. We leverage more than 15 years of support to stakeholders across the federal government, with established and growing capabilities across Intelligence, Analytics, Engineering, Mission Support, and Communications disciplines. Founded in 2008, our mission is to transform the way our customers approach constantly changing and complex problem sets by bringing to bear the latest in technology and the highest caliber of talent. Headquartered in Washington, DC's historic Dupont Circle neighborhood, Barbaricum also has a corporate presence in Tampa, FL and Dayton, OH, with team members across the United States and around the world. As a leader in our space, we partner with firms in the private sector, academic institutions, and industry associations with a goal of continually building our expertise and capabilities for the benefit of our employees and the customers we support. Through all of this, we have built a vibrant corporate culture diverse in expertise and perspectives with a focus on collaboration and innovation. Our teams are at the frontier of the Nation's most complex and rewarding challenges. Join us. Barbaricum seeks an experienced Cyber Analyst to provide support to a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) customer. Specifically, this individual will integrate as part of a team augmenting the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) cyber and physical security missions with a goal of establishing a more resilient front against an evolutionary threat landscape. This team will research analytics, analytic platforms and analytic solutions sets to support the discovery and mitigation of cyber threats through the provisioning of advanced countermeasures. This will also include visualization and fusion of automated analytic information to support an advanced Security Operational situational awareness capability. Cyber risk reduction support will build upon analytics services and data science methodologies, along with various engagement and research initiatives to meet required objectives.
Responsibilities
- Analyze, diagnose and resolve issues with cyber capabilities, defenses and countermeasures to intercept and prevent internal or external attacks.
- Analyze attempted or successful efforts to compromise systems security and designs countermeasures, which may include the maintenance of hardware, software and network firewalls and encryption protocols as well as the administration of security policies to control physical and virtual access to systems.
- Perform observation of cyber techniques, analysis of capabilities, and development of scripts using advanced analytic tool sets and will provide recommendations for highly technical solutions.
- Perform analysis of mission-related platforms and capabilities and make recommendations to improve the collection of relevant information to increase the detection of malicious behavior. Examples of this may include the location of sensors with regard to targets and prioritization of firewall rules.
Qualifications
- Active Secret clearance required
- Bachelor's degree in technical or related field
- 5+ years of experience