Incident Response Specialist

Resource Management Concepts, Inc. (RMC) provides high-quality, professional services to government and commercial sectors. Our mission is to deliver exceptional management and technology solutions supporting the protection and preservation of the people and environment of the United States of America. 

RMC is hiring for a Incident Response Specialist to support a fast-paced Hybrid Cloud environment at NSWC Dahlgren. This candidate will be responsible for various activities, including collecting and analyzing network artifacts, performing triage, providing expert technical support, managing and documenting cyber defense incidents

Requirements

The selected applicant will possess the following qualifications:   

• Effectively communicate with internal and external customers
• Coordinate customer meetings as needed to gather information needed to effectively troubleshoot issues with network performance and/or application performance
• Effectively work under pressure
• Manage time effectively during crisis situations
• Assist Application Support with troubleshooting initial incident reports
• Assist Application Support with obtain information needed to effectively troubleshoot issues
• Utilize NSERC monitoring tools to determine performance issues and/or threats
• Analyze security alerts and logs to identify potential incidents
• Communicate concerns to RMC Program Manager and RMC Technical Lead
• In the event of an issue, coordinate with internal teams to implement temporary measures to mitigate the impact of potential concerns.
• Coordinate with internal teams to contain and/or resolve the performance issue and/or threats
• Document and submit outage report to RMC program Manager and RMC Technical lead within 48 business hours of an incident.
• Facilitate communication and collaboration between team members during the response process.
• Coordinate with the team to ensure all roles and responsibilities are assigned to resolve an incident
• Conduct thorough post-incident reviews to identify root causes and lessons learned
• Develop and implement corrective actions to prevent future incidents and/or performance issues
• Assist Information Assurance with conducting tabletop incidents to test and refine incident response capabilities
• Establish and maintain the incident response plan and policy

CERTIFICATION REQUIREMENT:

• The selected applicant must have DoD 8570/5239 IAT Level II Certification (Security + CE).

CLEARANCE REQUIREMENT:

• An Interim DoD Secret security clearance is required to start
• Application must be able to obtain a Top-Secret Clearance. Selected applicant may be subject to a security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.  
• Applicant selected may be subject to a security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.

Benefits

At RMC, we're committed to your career growth! RMC differentiates itself from other firms through its investment in our employees. We invest our resources to train, certify, educate, and build our employees.

RMC can offer you a great place to work with a small company feel and give you the experience, tuition assistance, and certifications that will take your career to the next level. We offer Monday to Friday full-time day shift work, and can assist in paid relocation. This also includes a competitive paid vacation package with 11 paid federal holidays. Additionally, we also offer high-quality, low-deductible healthcare plans, pet insurance, and a competitive 401K package.

*Salary at RMC is determined by various factors, including but not limited to location, a candidate's specific combination of education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience, as well as contract-specific requirements. The salary range for this position is $90,000 - $120,000 annually.