Own your career as a Cyber Intrusion Detection System Administrator at GDIT. Here, youll have the opportunity to build strong lines of cyber defense using cutting-edge technologies. Your work in cyber security at GDIT will have an impact on securing our clients missions and ensuring we anticipate the threats of tomorrow.

At GDIT, people are our differentiator. As a Cyber Intrusion Detection System Administrator you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter.

HOW A CYBER INTRUSION DETECTION SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR WILL MAKE AN IMPACT:

• Monitor day-to-day operations of the sensors (Suricata, Palo Alto, and Splunk) located at supporting customer's locations.

• Perform Enterprise Defense Countermeasure (DC) activities and coordination with other government agencies to record and prepare incident reports and analysis methodology and results.

• Monitor and analyze signature alerts from Intrusion Detection/Prevention Systems (IDS/IPS) for false positives.

• Provide technical enforcement of organizational security policies.

• Provide tune-or-drop recommendations towards the DC teams Signature Lifecycle Review procedure.

• Provide insight to Detection and Response teams on signature functionality and providing signature tuning as needed.

• Communicate with customers and teammates clearly and concisely.

• Maintain current knowledge of relevant technology as assigned.

• Participate in special projects as required.

• Position may require evening, weekend or shift-work (depending on operational tempo).

WHAT YOULL NEED TO SUCCEED:

• Bachelor's Degree and 2+ years of relevant experience, equivalent combinations of education, certifications, and experience will be considered.

• Splunk Core Certified user

• DoDD 8140/DoD 8570 CNDSP Analyst Base line cert (example CEH, CySA+, GCIA, GCIH, CFR, etc)

• DoD IAT II (example Security+, CySA+, GSEC, SSCP, etc)

• Security Clearance Level: TS/SCI clearance and ability to pass a Polygraph.

• Required Skills and Abilities:

  • Experience with regular expressions.

  • Experience authoring Yara rules.

  • Experience with Perl Compatible Regular Expressions (PCRE).

• Preferred Skills:

  • Experience in intrusion detection and prevention systems.

  • Proficient in network security technologies and protocols.

  • Dashboarding in Splunk.

  • Palo Alto Certification Next-Generation Firewall

Location: On Customer Site

• Bolling AFB, Washington D.C

• Annapolis Junction, MD

• Colorado Springs, CO

GDIT IS YOUR PLACE:

• 401K with company match

• Comprehensive health and wellness packages

• Internal mobility team dedicated to helping you own your career

• Professional growth opportunities including paid education and certifications

• Cutting-edge technology you can learn from

• Rest and recharge with paid vacation and holidays