INFORMATION SECURITY MONITORING & DETECTION LEAD

Company: Direct Staffing Inc
Location: Mountain View
Posted on: May 3, 2025

Job Description:

INFORMATION SECURITY MONITORING & DETECTION LEAD

• Full-timeInformation SecurityMountain View, CAEXP 7-10 yrsDEG BachJob Description:Our company has been awarded a five year, $400 million dollar contract to provide comprehensive IT services to NASA Ames Research Center located in Mountain View, CA. We are seeking an experienced Information Security Monitoring & Detection Lead to supervise cyber security staff in NASA's Security Operations Center (SOC). US Citizenship is required as this position will have to obtain a US government security clearance.Responsibilities:
• Supervise the team that monitors Agency systems for incidents and malicious activity in NASA's 24/7/365 Security Operations Center (SOC).
• Provide technical guidance and leadership for the analysis of security events and identification of relevant incidents.
• Develop and maintain the SOC Analyst training and certification program.
• Update and maintain the SOC Analyst runbook, processes, and procedures.
• Generate high quality reports.
• Coordinate with both Tier 1 and Tier 3 teams while providing incident handling and response support for the agency.
• Contribute to SOC projects, process improvement and development of new capabilities.Requirements (Education, Skills & Abilities):
• BS degree in relevant field/technology or equivalent years of experience.
• 7+ years of progressive experience with increasing responsibilities within a Security Operations environment.
• Experience managing staff in a technical operations center environment (NOC, SOC).
• Experience developing and documenting operational procedures.
• Experience training operations staff for continuous improvement.
• Experience generating security metrics and reports.
• Excellent communication, writing and interpersonal skills.
• Broad information security knowledge, including familiarity with common attack methodologies, tactics and protocols, Advanced Persistent Threat groups and Hacker activity.
• Significant experience in network intrusion detection, including experience using common network monitoring tools - IDS, IPS, SIEM and Syslog.
• Experience with packet capture analysis and common network forensics and analysis tools - Wireshark, Kali, Netcat, TCPDump and NMAP.
• Experience reviewing and analyzing large amounts of raw log data (firewall, network flows, IDS, system logs).
• Familiarity with incident management procedures.
• Possess a strong foundation in networking fundamentals with deeper knowledge of TCP/IP and other core protocols.
• Knowledge of common network based services and common client/server applications.
• Familiarity in a command line environment in all operating systems.
• Excellent problem solving and analytical skills.
• Ability to obtain a government clearance (US Citizenship is required).Desired Skills:
• Experience managing staff in a mission critical security operations center, preferably 24x7.
• Experience with enterprise level security incident event management tools such as ArcSight, Splunk, or QRadar.
• Experience analyzing phishing attacks.
• CISSP, CEH, GIAC, OSCP are desired certifications.All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
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