Defensive Cyber Operations (DCO) Analyst

Required

• 4+ years of relevant cybersecurity experience, including direct SOC / vSOC / CSSP incident response experience.
• 2+ years of hands-on experience using Splunk Enterprise and ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) for event correlation and threat detection.
• Direct experience monitoring, ingesting, and analyzing security telemetry within AWS GovCloud environments (e.g., CloudTrail, VPC Flow Logs, AWS GuardDuty).
• Hands-on experience utilizing GitLab (e.g., source control, CI/CD pipelines, issue tracking, or DevSecOps workflows).
• 2+ years of experience with employment of DoD cybersecurity requirements, policies, and procedures to include assessment and authorization activities.
• Department of Defense Directive (DoDD) 8140 / 8570 IAT CSSP Certification must be obtained prior to hire (CEH, Security+, GCIH, CySA+ or Equivalent).
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• US Citizenship and an active Top Secret/SCI security clearance required.