Security Analyst

The most security-conscious organizations trust Telos Corporation to protect their vital IT assets. The reputation of our company rests on the quality of our solutions and the integrity of our people. Explore what you can bring to our solutions in the areas of cyber, cloud and enterprise security.

Be a part of the Telos culture and see what sets us apart! Telos offers an excellent compensation package with benefits that include generous paid time off, medical, dental, vision, tuition reimbursement, and 401k. Our employees enjoy more than just a great work environment!

This position will be based at Pittsburgh ARS, PA.

Telos is looking for an IT Security Analyst to provide Functional Mission Analysis-Cyber assistance to identify the United States Air Force weapon system's critical information technology architecture and supporting infrastructure that aids the warfighting mission. The Telos team supporting Functional Mission Analysis work activities shall possess a fundamental understanding of DoD Mission Assurance concepts and principles and how they relate to the United States Air Force (USAF) Mission. This requires highly complex, cyberspace threat expertise to support increased demands for threat notifications to AF mission/weapon systems. Also, included in this support is communication between cyber, intelligence agencies, civil engineer, logistics, maintenance, etc. Mission Assurance Analysts are service retained, wing-level mission-assurance forces designed to provide persistent cyber defense and internal defensive measures of major weapon systems or key cyber terrain supporting a warfighting mission. Analysts will provide commanders and system owners with decision-quality, actionable information regarding their local cyberspace environment vulnerabilities, prioritized threats, and a calculated cyber risk pertaining to their assigned weapon systems. Analysts will coordinate components necessary to prevent or lessen cyber-attacks that may disrupt, deny, degrade, destroy, exploit, allow unauthorized access to, or facilitate information theft from Air Force Forces platforms and mission systems. Team members shall be familiar with the purpose and use of the Mission Assurance Decision Support System (MADSS) and other similar data base repositories. Together you and your teammates shall possess an in-depth knowledge of various technical resources pertinent to emerging cyber tools and capabilities required to perform functional mission analysis and supporting assessments, including open-source technologies. Knowledge of a full range of Defensive Operation Systems and subsystems as they pertain to understanding the Key Terrain-Cyber (KT-C) are required to ensure Mission Assurance of these systems, to include cybersecurity principles, concepts, practices, products, services, and methods for evaluating risk and vulnerabilities, implementing mitigation improvement, and disseminating cyberspace defense security tools, procedures, and methods for protection of systems and application.

Job Responsibilities

• Investigate a diverse collection of network activities in cyberspace to determine essential Mission Relevant Terrain-Cyber (MRT-C) support designed for command, control, processes, and systems.
• Develop a strategy to identify, evaluate, and minimize risks in the local cyberspace environment that are considered crucial for mission success.
• Create and implement strategies and techniques to merge and display relevant MRT-C, based on essential systems and network services.
• Identify and analyze trends to define MRT-C requirements and provide guidance and alignment services.
• Assist with Functional Mission Analysis-Cyber (FMA-C), identifying, mapping, and developing a defense plan to safeguard MRT-C.
• Maintain databases to monitor systems, modify user boundaries, and create indexing to make searches easier.
• Utilize classified and unclassified networks and information portals to create support and information distribution plans for mission activities.
• Review and provide recommendations for establishing new or revised policies, procedures, objectives, and organization design for the staff, as necessary.
• Coordinate with local SMEs to resolve events and/or incidents.
• Brief supporting recommendations and Courses of Actions.
• Define and perform vulnerability assessments leveraging threat analysis to scope and prioritize efforts.
• Conduct research, analysis, and correlation across a wide variety of all source data sets (indications and warnings).
• Coordinate with enterprise-wide cyber defense staff to validate network alerts.
• Document and escalate incidents (including event's history, status, and potential impact for further action) that may cause ongoing and immediate impact to the environment.
• Perform cyber defense trend analysis and reporting.
• Perform event correlation using information gathered from a variety of sources within the enterprise to gain situational awareness and determine the effectiveness of an observed attack.
• Receive and analyze network alerts from various sources within the enterprise and determine possible causes of such alerts.