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Defensive Cyber Analyst with Security Clearance

Quantum SkyColorado Springs, CO🇺🇸United StatesPosted Sep 22, 2026

Quick Overview

Salary
$100k - $115k/yr
Seniority
Mid Senior
Employment type
Employee
Work mode
Hybrid
Location
Colorado Springs, CO, United States
Posted
Yesterday
SplunkBashKibanaMicrosoft OfficePython

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

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