Senior Security Operations Analyst (15.40)

Senior Security Operations Analyst OCT Consulting is a business management and technology consulting firm that supports Federal Government clients. We provide consulting services in the areas of Strategy, Process Improvement, Change Management, Program and Project Management, Acquisition/Procurement, and Information Technology. Responsibilities and Duties OCT currently has an opening for a Senior Security Operations Analyst to work with our federal client. The client requires a Senior Security Operations Analyst to support the agency's cybersecurity program at its Washington, DC headquarters. This position focuses on security monitoring, analysis, incident response, and continuous monitoring across the client's hybrid IT infrastructure. This position is contingent upon contract award. Day to day responsibilities include: Perform all security analysis activities according to established standards and best practices. Maintain threat awareness and monitor information systems for exploits and suspicious activities; analyze aggregated logs and reports from security tools. Develop and execute a daily security analysis and reporting checklist to ensure comprehensive coverage of security monitoring activities. Evaluate effectiveness of security analysis activities compared to best practices and recommend improvements. Adhere to continuous monitoring practices to evaluate effectiveness of implemented security controls and execute proactive threat hunting activities to ensure confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information systems. Develop detection and response configuration policies to increase automation and alerting. Develop incident handling procedures and execute incident response activities including all associated actions according to the incident response plan. Validate that sufficient and relevant information is captured and retained from security tools to support actionable security awareness and incident investigations. Collect security operations performance and security posture management metrics and prepare threat reports to inform risk management decisions. Support the development and maintenance of security operations documentation and standard operating procedures.