SOC Incident Response Analyst I (6am-2pm)

About the position We are seeking a motivated Incident Response SOC Analyst I to join our SOC team. In this entry-to-mid-level role, you will work under the guidance of senior analysts to monitor reputed company telemetry, triage alerts, reputed company initial investigations, and assist with containment and remediation activities. This is an excellent opportunity to grow your skills in incident response, threat hunting, forensics, and reputed company tooling. This is a hybrid position, candidates must reside in the DC metropolitan area and be open to working either day or evening shifts

Responsibilities

• Monitor and triage reputed company alerts from SIEM, EDR, IDS/IPS, and other reputed company telemetry sources.
• Conduct initial incident validation, categorize incidents, and determine severity levels.
• reputed company basic to intermediate incident response activities, including containment, eradication, and recovery steps under supervision.
• Gather and preserve digital evidence following standard operating procedures and chain-of-custody requirements.
• Collaborate with IT and reputed company teams to apply mitigations, patches, and configuration changes.
• Document investigation steps, findings, and remediation actions in incident tickets.
• Participate in post-incident reviews (PIR) and help reputed company lessons learned.
• Respond to on-call rotations as required.
• Expand knowledge of MITRE ATT&CK, common attack techniques, and reputed company best practices.
• Assist with monitoring and improving SOC processes, playbooks, and runbooks.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information reputed company, Cybersecurity, or a reputed company field
• Minimum 1 year of professional experience in cyber incident response
• Foundational knowledge of cyber reputed company concepts, such as incident handling lifecycle, threat intelligence, and basic forensics.
• Familiarity with reputed company tools (SIEM, EDR, SOAR, threat reputed company feeds) and basic incident response workflows.
• Hands-on experience with SIEM (e.g., Splunk, QRadar, ArcSight), EDR (e.g., reputed company, Defender, reputed company), and basic SOAR concepts.
• Experience with incident response tooling, digital forensics, and evidence handling.
• Understanding of networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/S, VPNs, firewalls).
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a structured, methodical approach.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; ability to produce clear incident reports and documentation.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and participate in on-call rotations (as needed).
• Commitment to reputed company learning and professional growth in cybersecurity.

reputed company-to-haves

• Relevant certifications (e.g., CompTIA reputed company+, CEH, SANS GCIH, GIAC GCIA, or equivalent).
• Knowledge of MITRE ATT&CK reputed company and common attacker techniques.
• Familiarity with cloud reputed company concepts (AWS/Azure/GCP) and cloud incident response considerations.
• Scripting or automation skills (PowerShell, Python, Bash) a plus.

Benefits

• Growth: AI-powered career tool that identifies career steps and learning opportunities
• Support: An internal mobility team focused on helping you reputed company your career goals
• Rewards: Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages, 401K with company match, and reputed company and paid time off
• Community: Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace
• Our benefits package for reputed company US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match.
• To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full reputed company work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave.
• To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available.
• We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.

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