Leidos
Incident Response Deputy Team Lead
Ashburn, VA
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About the role
- The CBP SOC is responsible for the overall security of CBP Enterprise-wide information systems, and collects, investigates, and reports any suspected and confirmed security violations.
- Leidos is seeking an experienced Incident Response professional to join our team.
- Recognize attacker and APT activity, tactics, and procedures as indicators of compromise (IOCs) that can be used to improve monitoring, analysis, and incident response processes.
Responsibilities
- Responsible for assisting the CIRT Team Lead with managing the team of CIRT analysts, Incident Response actions and priorities, technical analysis and root cause analyses, and interfacing with the customer.
- Partner with other task leads in support of customer initiatives and cyber incidents.
- Create dashboards for key metrics and processes and deliver technical presentations to various levels of customer leadership.
- Interface with senior DHS & CBP leaders and directors to help maintain and sustain critical systems supporting the CBP Security Operations Center.
- Conduct in-depth analysis on hosts and networks, forensic analysis, log analysis, and triage in support of incident response.
- Develop and build security content, scripts, tools, or methods to enhance the incident investigation processes.
- Lead incident response activities and mentor junior SOC staff.
- Work with key stakeholders to implement remediation plans in response to incidents.
- Utilize state of the art technologies such as host forensics tools(FTK/Encase), Endpoint Detection & Response tools, log analysis (Splunk) and network forensics (full packet capture solution) to perform hunt and investigative activity to examine endpoint and network-based data.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in a science or engineering field, IT, or Cybersecurity related field.
- 12+ years of experience be in the areas of incident detection and response, remediation, malware analysis, or computer forensics.
- Ability to prioritize and complete multiple tasks with little to no supervision.
- Experience effectively communicating at senior levels within a customer organization.
- Advanced knowledge of the Incident Response Lifecycle and applicability to various types of incidents and situations.
- Experience creating new processes, playbooks, and SOPs for new tools and workflows.
- Ability to script in one more of the following computer languages Python, Bash, Visual Basic or PowerShell.
- Experience running cyber incident investigations with emphasis on attention to detail, adept communication skills, and adherence to defined escalation paths.
- Clearance: All CBP SOC employees are required to currently possess a CBP Background Investigation to support this program.
- All CBP SOC employees are required to currently possess a CBP Background Investigation to support this program.
Nice to have
- We're not hiring followers.
- We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail.
- Step 10 is ancient history.
- We're already at step 30 - and moving faster than anyone else dares.
- Experience in Federal Government, DOD or Law Enforcement in CND, CIRT or SOC role Knowledge of the Cyber Kill Chain and the MITRE ATT&CK framework
- Knowledge of Structured Analytic Techniques Required certifications:
- The candidate should have at minimum
- ONE of the following certifications:
Compensation
- Pay Range $131,300.00 - $237,350.00 The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary.
- Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with 47,000 global employees, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $17.2 billion for the fiscal year ended January 2, 2026.
- Pay and Benefits Pay and benefits are fundamental to any career decision.
- That's why we craft compensation packages that reflect the importance of the work we do for our customers.
- Employment benefits include competitive compensation, Health and Wellness programs, Income Protection, Paid Leave and Retirement.
Benefits
- Flexible and adaptable self-starter with strong relationship-building skills Ability to stay up to date with the latest threat intelligence, security trends, tools and capabilities.
Company info
- At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo - because the mission demands it.
- Leidos Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations.
Visa & Work Authorization
- fied applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregna
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