SOC Analyst

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DKW Communications, Inc. (DKW) is a government contractor providing professional and technical services to various government agencies i.e. defense, law enforcement and security. DKW was recently named a Top Workplace in Washington Post Top Workplaces Culture Excellence Awards, and we are seeking talented individuals to join our winning team!

SOC Analyst Position

DKW is currently looking for a SOC Analyst to support our team. The individual hired for this position will provide support to the Department of Interior should DKW be awarded the contract. This position will be located in Washington, DC. This is an onsite position.

The SOC Analyst will perform the following duties:

• Perform all security analysis activities according to established standards.
• Maintain threat awareness and monitor agency information systems for exploits and any suspicious activities; analyze aggregated logs and reports from security tools.
• Develop a daily security analysis and reporting checklist and execute activities identified in the checklist.
• Evaluate effectiveness of security analysis activities compared to best practices and recommend improvements.
• Adhere to Continuous Monitoring practices to evaluate the effectiveness of implemented security controls and execute proactive threat hunting activities to ensure confidentiality, integrity, and availability of agency information systems.
• Develop detection and response configuration policies to increase automation and alerting.
• Develop Incident handling procedures.
• Execute Incident Response activities to include all associated actions according to the agency incident response plan
• Validate that sufficient and relevant information is captured and retained from security tools to support actionable security awareness and incident investigations.
• Collect security operations performance and agency security posture management metrics and prepare agency threat reports to inform risk management decisions.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in a related field is preferred.
• At least 5 years of experience performing related security analysis work.
• Previous experience performing related work with government agency is a strong plus.

**All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.**

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