Planet Technologies, the Nation’s leading Microsoft services provider to the public sector, is looking for a highly motivated individual to join our growing team as Senior Cyber Incident Responder. In this role, you will be supporting impactful projects that make a difference for our country.
The Incident Responder facilitates and coordinates with leadership to provide expert technical support to the enterprise-wide cyber defense technicians to resolve cyber defense incidents. They correlate incident data to identify specific vulnerabilities and make recommendations that enable expeditious remediation to any attacks within networks. They will respond to cyber incidents as necessary and act as a liaison between internal and external stakeholders within the organization.
A minimum of 8+ years of experience is required for this position.
Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
Previous experience in Incident Response, Cyber Defense, SOC operations, or Digital Forensics.
Hands-on experience responding to enterprise-scale security incidents across networks, endpoints, and cloud environments.
Proven ability to collect, preserve, and analyze intrusion artifacts, including malware, trojans, scripts, and suspicious binaries.
Strong experience with incident triage, including determining scope, urgency, impact, root cause, and remediation strategy.
Advanced experience analyzing logs and alerts from multiple sources (SIEM, EDR, IDS/IPS, firewalls, servers).Skilled in identifying indicators of compromise (IOCs) and attacker behaviors.
Experience with SIEM platforms (e.g., Splunk, Sentinel, QRadar, Elastic); endpoint detection and response (EDR) tools
Familiarity with network traffic analysis tools (and knowledge of malware analysis tools and sandbox environments.
Familiarity with scripting or automation (e.g., Python, PowerShell, Bash) for investigation and analysis.
Strong ability to write clear, concise technical reports, guidance, and incident summaries including publishing after-action reviews, playbooks, SOPs, and CONOPS.
Ability to communicate complex technical findings to both technical and non-technical audiences.
In lieu of some experience, industry certifications can be substituted (e.g., ISC2 CISSP, EC-Council Certified Incident Handler (C|IH), EC-Council Certified Network Defender (C|ND), SANS GCIH, SANS GCIP, SANS CFCA, Carnegie Mellon University CSIH)
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Planet Technologies is the leading provider of Microsoft Consulting Services to public sector and commercial organizations. Planet has significant experience in deploying business intelligence, cloud services, unified communications, and systems management with an emphasis building, deploying, and managing custom solutions that transform the business operations of federal government agencies.
Planet Technologies does not discriminate in employment opportunities, terms and conditions of employment, or practices. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, age, gender, religious or political beliefs, national origin or heritage, disability, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, or any characteristic protected by law. Federal Agency Clearance Requirements may require up to a 10-year background investigation - US Citizenship (clearable) is required.
Salaries for Cyber Incident Responders at Planet Technologies range from $90,000 and $140,000. Several factors will impact final pay offered to a successful candidate including but not limited to the type and years of experience within the job, clearance level, the type of years and experience within the industry, education, training, etc.