Cybersecurity Specialist III

The Cyber Security Specialist III provides senior operational cybersecurity expertise supporting both incident-management operations and SOC engineering/detection activities. Of the five positions, this is the role that Appendix B most explicitly distributes across operational functions. Cyber Specialist III will be a seasoned technical contributor with deep technical knowledge who develops solutions to difficult or unclear technical problems requiring collaboration, analysis, and understanding of end-solution impacts.

The Cyber Specialist III will perform real-time alert monitoring and triage incident report acceptance and coordination, incident analysis, containment/eradication/recovery, SOC engineering/deployment/operations/maintenance, and optional detection engineering/tuning/custom capability development.

Accordingly, the position monitors and analyzes security alerts, logs, events, reports, and cybersecurity data sources; investigates alerts; conducts initial triage; determines potential severity and impact; documents incidents; and escalates potential incidents according to Government procedures. The Specialist III receives, validates, documents, coordinates, and maintains incident information and supports incident analysis through correlation of logs, alerts, artifacts, reports, threat intelligence, and other Government-approved sources.