Join Leidos as a Cyber Threat Intel Analyst in Ashburn, VA

Leidos supports the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Security Operations Center (SOC), safeguarding critical networks against cyber threats. Protect LAN/WAN, cloud environments, and public-facing systems through advanced monitoring and intrusion detection.

Primary Responsibilities

• Perform cyber threat analysis to identify mitigations, develop actionable intelligence, and trend metrics for leadership.
• Maintain comprehensive threat landscape awareness, analyzing actors, APT TTPs, and activities to enhance cybersecurity.
• Track, investigate, and report on high-priority threats, malicious actors, and emerging campaigns.
• Develop detection scripts in Python, C++, VB, HTML, XML, or other formats.
• Correlate intelligence sources for indicator collection, TTP shifts, attribution, and countermeasures.
• Produce high-quality technical products, briefings, and whitepapers with minimal supervision.
• Support SOC incident response with analysis, research, and remediation recommendations.
• Fuse technical data with intelligence; manage tools like Analyst1; stay ahead of zero-days and vulnerabilities.

Basic Qualifications

• Top Secret clearance with TS/SCI eligibility + 5-year BI.
• BS in IT field + 4-8 years IT experience, including 5+ years Tier II cyber analysis.
• 3+ years host/network security monitoring & content development.
• 2+ years cybersecurity capabilities experience.
• Scripting proficiency for threat detection.
• Self-starter able to work independently.

Required Certifications

At minimum one: CISSP, SANS GCIA/GREM/GISF/GXPN/GMON, OSCP.

Salary range: $87,100 - $157,450. Apply now for this full-time, mid-level role driving national security.