Incident Commander, Tier 3

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

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Valiant Solutions

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2005

💼 Consulting

🎖️ Defense

🔒 Cybersecurity

Consulting • Defense • Cybersecurity

Valiant Solutions is a cybersecurity and IT services firm that specializes in securing the future by providing comprehensive and customized solutions to challenges faced by the Federal Government. With a focus on security engineering, operations, and strategic risk governance, the company addresses complex information security challenges through innovative application development and enterprise architecture. Recognized for its commitment to excellence, Valiant Solutions has been awarded numerous contracts and honors for its impactful contributions in the cybersecurity field.

📋 Description

• Conduct advanced incident response analysis to identify attack vectors, assess threats, and investigate malware, data exposure, phishing, social engineering, and other cybersecurity incidents • Coordinate incident containment, remediation, and recovery activities • Monitor and analyze security events and alerts from Splunk SIEM and other security tools • Review escalated alerts and perform Level 3 incident triage to determine incident type, severity, scope, risk, and response or escalation • Serve as primary coordination point for incident management during significant incidents, including data breaches and ransomware attacks • Assign response actions and coordinate stakeholders, enterprise teams, resources, and timelines • Create, maintain, and track incident records and ticket queues from detection through closure • Ensure accurate documentation and compliance with federal requirements, departmental policies, and applicable legislation • Evaluate and recommend technical, procedural, and physical security controls • Prepare incident status reports, executive briefings, and post-incident reports • Document findings, response actions, remediation, recovery, lessons learned, and restoration of normal operations • Collaborate with digital forensic investigators and application security analysts on investigations and threat hunting • Conduct or coordinate endpoint, network, and log analysis to identify indicators of compromise, determine incident scope, and support root-cause analysis • Lead a 24x7x365 incident coordination function and communicate incidents to Federal leadership

🎯 Requirements

• U.S. citizenship required • Ability to successfully pass a federal background investigation for a High-Risk Public Trust position, including applicable credit checks • Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust • Must hold active CISSP certification from ISC2, plus GCIH (GIAC Certified Incident Handler) or an equivalent relevant incident response, digital forensics, or cybersecurity certification • Minimum of 7 years of relevant professional experience, or a bachelor’s degree with at least 3 years of relevant experience • Extensive experience managing cybersecurity incidents, advanced incident triage, coordinating response activities, and driving investigations through resolution • Proficiency in SOC operations, threat hunting, intrusion detection and prevention, security event monitoring, and incident detection and response • Expert knowledge of TCP/IP protocols, network traffic analysis, IDS/IPS, and security log analysis • Experience with endpoint security, antivirus, EDR, host-based intrusion detection, firewalls, proxies, WAF, and enterprise security solutions, including FireEye products • Experience analyzing and correlating security logs and collecting host, network, and cloud data • Strong understanding of Windows and Unix/Linux operating systems, enterprise networking, system and application security, systems and network administration, and OS hardening • Knowledge of digital forensic techniques, including evidence collection, recovery, preservation, chain of custody, and forensic image acquisition • Understanding of cyberattack stages, adversary techniques, threat profiling, intrusion detection, and indicators of compromise • Experience creating and tracking incident investigations, preparing security alert notifications, maintaining incident records, and documenting response activities • Experience supporting or advising on FISMA, PCI DSS, GDPR, NIST, and ISO standards • Understanding of Computer Network Defense policies, procedures, standards, and regulatory requirements • Ability to coordinate incident response teams, work with senior business leaders, assess risks, and communicate mitigation strategies • Ability to communicate complex cybersecurity findings and recommended actions to technical and non-technical stakeholders during crises • Excellent written and verbal communication, presentation, facilitation, documentation, and organizational skills • Ability to manage multiple investigations and competing priorities simultaneously

🏖️ Benefits

• A choice of medical plans, from an affordable HSA option to a full-featured PPO, with generous company contributions • Dental and vision coverage for you and your family • Company-paid life, short-term disability, and long-term disability insurance • Optional supplemental life, accident, and critical illness coverage • 401(k) retirement plan with company match • Paid time off that grows with years of service • Paid federal holidays • Paid certifications • Professional development • Valiant University training portal • Flexible spending accounts • Wellness and fitness program • Referral bonuses • Remote work arrangement • Quiet, distraction-free workspace and adequate internet expectations for telecommuters

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