Cyber Threat and Vulnerability Hunter

SAIC is seeking Cyber Threat and Vulnerability Hunter to join its Blue Team Vulnerability Assessment Program in Chantilly, Virginia. This position requires an active TS/SCI Clearance with Polygraph.

Positional Overview: 

• Perform technical reviews and analysis of network Packet Captures (PCAP), system events, and host-level artifacts to identify threat-related activities or vulnerabilities.
• Operate and support maintenance of technical hunt software and hardware.
• Research, evaluate and recommend new cybersecurity technologies and techniques to enhance the existing program capabilities.
• Identify and recommend solutions to mitigate discovered vulnerabilities.
• Provide briefings or technical feedback to stakeholders.

Typical Education and Experience: Bachelors and nine (9) years or more experience; Masters and seven (7) years or more experience; PhD or JD and four (4) years or more related experience. Note: Additional years professional experience may be substituted in lieu of a degree.

Required Qualifications:

• Active TS/SCI Clearance with Polygraph.
• 3 or more years work experience with performing cyber hunt activities within cloud or on-premise environments.
• Cybersecurity countermeasures and mitigation strategies work experience.
• Active DoD Directive 8570/8140 IAT/IAM II Certification:
  • Ability to obtain a qualified certification within 3 months of hire.

Desired Skills (knowledge or experience within one or more of the following areas):

• Relative academic degree or technical certification within Cyber Hunting or Digital Forensics.
• Incident Response (System or Network Threat Triaging.)
• Penetration Testing.