Position Overview
RMGS, Inc. is currently recruiting an Advanced Blue Cyber Analyst in support of DTRA (Defense Threat Reduction Agency) located at Fort Belvoir, VA.
**This position is contingent upon contract award. **
Primary Purpose:
- Inspect data network traffic to identify any potential vulnerabilities or exploitations from malicious actors.
- Makes a copy of the customer’s network traffic and then routes it through a number of software tools that scan the traffic for any indicator of malicious activity or vulnerabilities.
Essential Functions:
- Conducting advanced cyber assessment technical planning and execution. Conduct planning for assessment operations, including:
- Liaises between customers, external stakeholders, assessment site POCs, and DTRA’s technical SMEs in order to maximize the effectiveness and safety of advanced cyber assessments.
- Understands customer assessment objectives and the technical requirements necessary to meet those objectives.
- Drafts, coordinates, and maintains assessment-specific documents for network connection authorization for assigned cyber activities.
- During assessments, act as primary liaison between DTRA’s technical SMEs and assessment customers and trusted agents, facilitating answers to questions or concerns that may arise during an assessment.
- Providing technical insights and recommendations to the DTRA Cyber Division Chief.
- Collaborating with DoD leadership, assessment coordinators, and authoritative subject matter experts to support the assessments.
- Providing recommendations on appropriate hardware and software required to optimize advanced cyber assessments.
- Interfacing with technical staff with DTRA Information Technology commercial vendors.
- Participating in annual updates to the SOPs by providing recommendations to the DTRA Cyber Division Chief.
Experience:
- Possess the knowledge, skills and ability to operate the advanced cyber analytical toolkit and perform required assessments.
- Possess a Bachelor's degree in a technical field such as computer science or engineering. In lieu of a degree, 10 years of directly related operational experience may be substituted as agreed to by the government.
- Possess working knowledge of DoD’s IT system and network certification and accreditation processes to include system security authorization agreements.
- Experience conducting Information Operations Computer Network Defense/Exploitation assessments
- Programming experience (Perl, Python, C, etc.)
- Experience with firewalls and network TAP technologies
- Have strong experience with security monitoring, threat hunting, packet analysis, malware analysis, signature development, shell scripting
- Familiarity with Linux environments (Red Hat, CentOS, Ubuntu)
- Installing, configuring, administering software applications
- Possess troubleshooting skills in problems with software and hardware
- Configuring, managing, and maintaining network equipment.
- Strong computer networking skills
- Possess working knowledge of DoD’s Information Assurance Vulnerability Alert processes
- Possess a working knowledge of Computer Network modeling software
- Possess a working knowledge of Computer Network vulnerability/compliance analysis software
Company Overview
RMGS, Inc. is a growing small business headquartered in Virginia Beach, Virginia. We provide security-related training and advisory services to the U.S. Government, allied nations, and private industry. We are an equal opportunity employer. RMGS, Inc. does not discriminate based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, political affiliation, parental status, age, veteran status, medical condition or disability, genetic information, or any other protected status under federal, state, or local law.
Company Benefits
RMGS, Inc. offers the following benefits as applicable:
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance and/or TRICARE supplemental insurance
- Short- and long-term disability insurance
- Accidental death and dismemberment insurance
- Group and supplemental group life insurance
- Supplemental Insurance for Accidents/Critical Illnesses
- 401(k)
- Workers’ compensation
- Direct deposit
- Post-hardship differential and danger pay
- Medical evacuation insurance
- Short-term and high-risk life insurance.
