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 strengthen 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.
• Support SOC incident response with analysis, research, and remediation recommendations.
• Produce high-quality technical products, briefings, and whitepapers with minimal supervision.
• Fuse multi-source intelligence, manage tools like Analyst1, and maintain awareness of zero-days/vulnerabilities.

Basic Qualifications

• Top Secret clearance (TS/SCI eligible) + 5-year BI eligibility.
• 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 monitoring experience.
• Scripting proficiency for threat detection.
• Self-starter capable of independent work.

Required Certifications

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

Be part of a mission-critical team enhancing national security. Apply now for this full-time, mid-level role offering salary transparency and growth at Leidos.