Senior Cybersecurity Analyst

Job ID: 2616506

Location

Washington, DC, US

Date Posted

2026-09-03

Category

Cyber

Subcategory

Cyber Engineer

Schedule

Full-Time

Shift

Day Job

Travel

No

Minimum Clearance Required

None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain

Public Trust

Potential for Remote Work

ORA_HYBRID

Description

SAIC is looking for a Senior Cybersecurity Analyst supports Security Operations functions while helping establish and mature the organization's offensive security capability in support of a critical U.S. Government agency.

This position is responsible for advanced incident detection, investigation, response, threat analysis, and security monitoring across on-premises and cloud environments. In addition to traditional SOC responsibilities, the analyst performs authorized offensive security activities, including manual vulnerability validation, reproduction of penetration test findings, remediation verification, and security control validation to identify and validate security weaknesses requiring manual analysis beyond automated vulnerability scanning.

The position supports the development of repeatable security validation processes and the agency's evolving offensive security capability, which may expand over time to include application security assessments, adversary emulation, and purple team activities.

ONSITE 3 Days / Remote 2 days – Washington DC

Key Responsibilities

• Monitor, analyze, investigate, and respond to cybersecurity alerts and incidents using SIEM, endpoint detection and response (EDR), network monitoring, email security, identity security, and other enterprise security technologies.
• Perform advanced incident triage to determine scope, impact, attack vectors, and recommend appropriate containment, eradication, recovery, and mitigation activities.
• Analyze network traffic, endpoint telemetry, authentication events, application logs, system logs, and threat intelligence t