Role Description

Visual Soft, Inc is seeking qualified candidates to work on our efforts with a Prime for their end customer, a federal agency.

• Position: SOC - Security Analyst (US Citizenship is a MUST) - (fully REMOTE with first 2 weeks onsite training in Shift 1- 8 AM to 5 PM)
• Location: Washington, DC, next to Union Station metro
• Compensation: Based on certifications, education and experience, very competitive
• Various Shifts available. SHIFT TIMINGS: 3rd SHIFT- M-F 11PM-7:30AM

The SOC Analyst has the primary responsibility of aggressively monitoring and responding to alerts triggered in the SIEM tool or requests for assistance from customers. The SOC Analyst will use a variety of tools to investigate incidents and take immediate action or recommend a course of action to safeguard the U.S. Courts systems. The SOC Analyst works as Tier 1/2 support and will be under a senior SOC analyst/shift lead for review before completing event notation to assure correctness in reviews. Events that require over 15 minutes of analysis are to be escalated to the Seniors on shift for analysis.

Qualifications

• Minimum of two (2)+ years of hands-on network intrusion detection experience with 3-5 years of total experience.
• Ability to investigate and evaluate network traffic.
• Ability to read and interpret log and sniffer packets, Wireshark.
• Ability to analyze data from a variety of sources over time and create a logical narrative of observed behavior.
• Ability to communicate clearly both orally and in writing.

Requirements

• Prior or ongoing experience (2+ yrs) of working in a SOC environment is a MUST.
• First two (2) weeks will be on Shift 1, 8 AM to 5 PM for training; following that, the selected candidate will be moved to Shift 3.
• Candidate will have 2+ years of hands-on performing intrusion detection analytics working with the examination of logs and console events in the following areas: Splunk, examining Snort based IDS events, PCAP, web server log review, and working in a SIEM environment.
• Education Requirement: High School diploma preferred, industry certifications are desired such as CEH or Security+ or other industry certifications.
• Clearance requirement: U.S. Citizenship is required.

Benefits

• 3 weeks of Paid time off (PTO that includes sick leave). Any unused PTO will be issued as a check at the end of an employee's anniversary with us.
• 2 floating and 8 public holidays. Floating and holidays expire at the end of every year of service of an employee.
• Company will cover 50% of health and dental insurances only for all full-time employees; dependents can be added at extra cost.
• Employee's health and dental coverage becomes effective after 30 days or first of the month after an employee completes initial 30 working days.
• STD, LTD and one-time salary equivalent of life insurance at NO cost to all full-time employees.
• All full-time employees or W-2 employees with no benefits will be eligible to participate in the company's 401k program after 90 days of employment with a company match of 4%, immediate vesting.
• All W-2 employees are eligible to be part of the company's profit sharing, no employee contributions required.