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Defensive Cyber Analyst - Temporary with Security Clearance

Quantum SkyColorado Springs, CO🇺🇸United StatesPosted 8 Sept 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

This role offers a fantastic opportunity to refine your incident response and cyber defense skills within a dynamic team, contributing to critical national security missions. You'll thrive here if you possess a CSSP certification or relevant degree, enjoy analyzing complex cyber events, and are eager to develop cutting-edge TTPs. Apply now to leverage your expertise and gain invaluable experience at Quantum Sky.

Quick Overview

Seniority
Mid Senior
Employment type
Employee
Work mode
Hybrid
Location
Colorado Springs, CO, United States
Posted
Yesterday
Microsoft Office

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Analyze cyber incidents, correlate incident details and formulate response actions.
  • Provide recommendations on tuning and maximizing capability of existing tools, while providing recommendations for other tools to increase capability.
  • Monitor government provided DCO tools and systems.
  • Conduct after action processes to capture efforts taken to mitigate unauthorized actions.
  • Participate in development of DCO Tactics, Techniques and Procedures (TTPs).
  • Participate in development of DCO concept of operations, processes and procedures.
  • Identify security discrepancies and report security incidents.
  • Provide expert research and analysis in support of expanding programs and area of responsibility.

Qualifications Required

  • Minimum of one (1) active DoD 8570.07-M Cyber Security Services Provider (CSSP) "Analyst" or "Incident Responder" certifications:
  • CEH, CySA+, GCIH, GCIA, GCED, GFACT, GISF, CFR, CCNA Cyber Ops, CCNA-Security, GICSP, Cloud+, SCYBER, PenTest+, CHFI, GCFA OR
  • BS degree in Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Data Science, Information Systems, or Computer Science OR
  • Appropriate Military IT/cyber training (M03385G; M10395B; M223854 or A-150-1980 or A-150-1202 or A-150-1203 or A-150-1250 or A-531-0451 or A-531-4421 or A-531-1900 or WSS 011 or DISA-US1377)
  • 1-3 years of Cybersecurity/IT experience
  • Experience performing Continuous Cybersecurity Monitoring, Intrusion Detection and Cyber Incident Response.
  • Cybersecurity Service Provider (CSSP) experience is preferred.
  • Familiarity with Space Operations is highly desired.
  • Experience with the following tools:
  • Elastic Stack, Kibana, Suricata, Splunk, Snort, Wireshark, Bro/Zeek logs, tcpdump, editcap, ACAS, Microsoft Office 365, Python or Bash scripting.

Clearance

  • Active DoD TS/SCI clearance
Location:
  • Schriever Space Force Base (SFB), CO
Schedule/Shift:
  • Night Shift 645p-645a MT, either Sun-Tues, or Thurs-Sat, and every other Wed.

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