Cyber Security Operations Specialist - Tier 2
D2 Technical Services
| Company | D2 Technical Services |
| Category | Security |
| Location | Springfield |
| Remote | On-site (inferred) |
| Employment | Not stated |
| Level | Not stated |
| Salary | Not stated by the employer |
| Posted | 2 Apr 2026 |
| Last verified | 10 Aug 2026 |
| Source | Employer ATS (greenhouse) |
Description
**ACTIVE TS/SCI SECURITY CLEARANCE REQUIRED**
This role is in anticipation of funded work . You will provide CSOC Tier 2 services, which is 24x7x365 coordination, execution, and implementation of all actions required for the containment, eradication, and recovery measures for events and incidents. CSOC Tier 2 services includes malware and implant analysis, and forensic artifact handling and analysis. While not in a period of incident response, you will conduct continuous exercises and dry runs to improve response outcomes in the event of a cyber-incident.
More about your role:
Malware and implant analysis, and forensic artifact handling and analysis. While not in a period of incident response, you will conduct continuous exercises and dry runs to improve response outcomes in the event of a cyber incident.
Coordinate and implement tasks, performing analysis, and building/documenting response activities required during cyber security incident response, to include but not limited to actions such as implementing containment measures, IP blocks, domain blocks, and disabling user accounts on direction of the Government
Coordinate with Security and Installations Directorate (SI) Office of Counterintelligence (SIC), Insider Threat Office (SIII), in addition to other law enforcement and counterintelligence personnel as required to perform advanced investigation and triage of incidents
Collaborate with appropriate authorities in the production of security incident reports
Categorize incidents and events
Coordinate with other contracts, organizations, activities, and other services as appropriate to ensure incidents are properly reported, contained, and eradicated
Coordinate with other contracts, organizations, activities, and other services as appropriate to de-conflict blue / red team activity with open incidents/event and to ensure NGA recovers from an incident/event
Build timelines, documents, briefings, and other products as required to inform stakeholders of incident response actions, analysis, and the impact of both adversary activity and blue force response actions
Document actions taken and analysis in the authorized ticketing system to a level of detail where the actions taken and analysis are capable of being systematically reconstructed
Develop and when approved by the Government generates and updates reports in the Joint Incident Management System (JIMS), Incident Case Management System (ICMS), and/or other authorized reporting systems as directed
Develop, maintain, sustain, and when properly authorized by the Government execute custom scripts, tools, and capabilities to collect and analyze data, and to respond to incidents/events
Perform digital media analysis on host, server, and network data as required to analyze and respond to an incident, to include but not limited to volatile and non-volatile memory and/or system artifact collection and analysis
Develop and identify indicators of compromise to send to Cybersecurity stakeholders and other Contract Services
Provide adversary attribution
Perform malware analysis and signature development
Provide input to and coordinates with all applicable stakeholders to develop and deliver the daily CSOC Significant Activity Report, the daily CSOC Operations Update, and the Weekly CSOC Status Report
Serve as C-IRT members as required and serve under the direct control of, and take direction from, the Government C-IRT Commander
Develop and coordinate courses of action with various Government and contract stakeholders, and when properly authorized by the Government, execute Defensive Cyberspace Operations-Internal Defensive Measures on behalf of the NGA on NGA networks and systems
Perform digital media analysis and malware reverse engineering on host, server, and network data as required to analyze and respond to an incident, to include but not limited to volatile and non-volatile memory and/or system artifact collection and analysis