Senior Cyber Security Deception Engineer/Threat Hunter

Senior Cyber Security Deception Engineer/Threat Hunter

Peraton is a next generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world's leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. We operate at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can't be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers.

Program Overview

Encompasses technical, engineering, data analytics, cyber security, management, operational, logistical, and administrative support for the Bureau of Diplomatic Security, Cyber and Technology Security Directorate in three key offices/functional areas: Cyber Monitoring and Operations, Cyber Threat and Investigations, and Technology Innovation and Engineering State.

About the Role

Peraton is seeking a Senior Cyber Security Deception Engineer/Threat Hunter to become part of Federal Strategic Cyber Mission programs.

Location: Northern VA; On site, 5 days a week; must be local to the work location.

In this role, you will:

• Work closely with cross functional teams, including Security Operations, Incident Response, Threat Intelligence, and Threat Hunting to ensure a proactive and robust security posture.
• Perform advanced network threat hunting to detect malicious or suspicious behavior on Department on premise and cloud based networks.
• Respond to security events received from CIRT, provide comprehensive findings and recommend remediation steps.
• Perform advanced traffic analysis (at the packet level) and reconstruction of network traffic to discover anomalies, trends, and patterns.
• Perform forensic analysis of suspected systems (e.g., on and off premise network devices, and storage media) impacted by malicious activity.
• Implement and use cyber security frameworks (e.g., MITRE ATT&CK, Kill Chain, etc.).
• Has proven expertise in performing analyses to validate established security requirements and recommended additional security requirements and safeguards.
• May interface with external entities including law enforcement, intelligence and other government organizations and agencies.

Qualifications Minimum requirements:

• B's degree and 9 years of experience, or 7 years of experience with a Master's. An additional 4 years of experience will be considered in lieu of degree.
• Must possess or be able to obtain at least one of the following certifications before start date. Continued certification required as a condition of employment:
  • CCNA Security, CND, CySA+, GICSP, GSEC, Security+ CE, or SSCP
• Proven ability to develop and recommend corrective actions.
• Expertise, knowledge, and experience integrating new architectural analysis of cyber security features.
• Comfortable interfacing with external entities including law enforcement, intelligence and other government organizations and agencies.
• Experience in threat hunting or network/cloud forensics.
• U.S. citizenship is required.
• Active Top Secret security clearance required.
  • The ability to obtain a final TS/SCI.

Preferred:

• Experience using Databricks.
• Experience using Artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs).
• Ability to create, troubleshoot, configure and operate complex scripting solutions with the ability to output the results in a variety of formats (e.g. HTML, XML, etc.) and to re purpose the results for reports targeting different technical levels (e.g. other analysts, management, etc.).

Salary and Benefits

Target Salary Range: $146,000 - $234,000. Salary is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the position, the individual's experience, education, knowledge, skills, and competencies, as well as geographic location and business and contract considerations. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.

Benefits Statement: Peraton offers eligible employees a variety of benefits including medical, dental, vision, life, health savings account, short/long term disability, EAP, parental leave, 401(k), paid time off (PTO) for vacation, and company paid holidays. A full listing of available benefits can be viewed at

Application Duration Statement: The application period for the job is estimated to be 30 days from the job posting date. However, this timeline may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates.

EEO Statement

Equal opportunity employer, including disability and protected veterans, or other characteristics protected by law.