Cyber Incident Responder

Overview

Silotech Group provides Advanced Cyber Solutions, Intelligence Solutions, Enterprise/Cloud IT Services and Products, and Managed IT/Security Services to Federal, State, and Commercial clients. We provide Federal Government and Commercial clients with customized, agile technical solutions focused on data, enterprise platforms, service engagement, and customer workforce development through trust-driven and collaborative relationships. Our vision is to help customers achieve their most challenging goals by unifying innovation, integrity, and exemplary services and products.

Silotech is seeking an Incident Responder to come join our team, to support current and future Cybersecurity initiatives and projects to protect critical infrastructure from cybersecurity threats to the City of Houston and it's various departments.

Location

Houston, TX (On-Site)

Essential Roles and Responsibilities

• Analyzes, reports, and responds to detected cyber incidents. Conduct network defense analysis and provide recommendations for improvements.
• Use cybersecurity tools to proactively search for threats to systems or networks.
• Develop and maintain thorough, up-to-date knowledge of cybersecurity threats and incident response best practices
• Collaborate with peers and stakeholders to establish and ensure consistent response practices and prioritization of security events.
• Correlates incident data to identify specific vulnerabilities and make recommendations that enable expeditious remediation.
• Performs analysis of log files from a variety of sources to identify possible threats to network security.
• Performs cyber incident response triage, to determining scope, urgency, and potential impact identifying the specific vulnerability.
• Performs real time cyber incident handling, like forensic collection, intrusion correlation and tracking, threat analysis, and direct system remediation to support deployable incident response teams (IRTs).

Qualifications

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Information Systems or Information Technology, Cybersecurity or Information Assurance or equivalent work experience of 5 or more years.

Experience

• 4-7 years of experience in Cybersecurity or similar role

Certifications

• GIAC Certified Incident Handler (GCIH)
• GIAC Certified Intrusion Analyst (GCIA)
• Windows Forensic Analysis (GCFE)