I just recently was hired by a government contractor as a Cyber Security Specialist for the Department of Veteran Affairs. I had a phone interview thursday and was offered the position friday. It will be in Security Network Operations Center (SNOC). They want be sending the offer over till Monday morning, but since the offer Friday I have been trying to think of what the salary would be. There are 4 tiers at this job. Tier 1 - Security help desk 2. Tier 2 Cyber Security Specialist (me) Tier 3 - Senior Cyber Security Specialist Tier 4 - Cyber Security Expert
Responsibilities:1) Proven work experience performing in the role of a Sys Admin, Network or Security Analyst position
2) Must have superior written/documentation communications skills, as emails sent by this resource will be the "face" of the department's security team to component agencies.
3) Knowledge of IDS/HIPS systems.
4) Experience working in a SOC or NOC
5) Confer with leadership, team members and involving the team mission and task assignments
6) Review and perform reporting functions for the client
7) Organize self and perform all duties on-time and in a detail-oriented fashion and provide additional shift coverage when needed.
Will be familiar with Security Operations Center (SOC) tools (preferably Sourcefire, EPOMcAffee, Big Fix, Solar Winds, Palo Alto and other vulnerability management tools). Hands on technical experience with these tools strongly preferred
9) Remedy Ticket Reporting and management or some other ticketing system.
Work well as part of a Incident Response Team and Reporting Team working onsite at the client’s facility
Qualifications:Skills Required::Required: 2+ years Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, network and security device monitoring, network and security device administration and management, security event correlation, audit log management, and support, and incident response, ticket management, creating queries for Tier II Support Analysis, providing tuning recommendations, i.e., IPS, HIPS, U.S. CERT analysis, signature development. Additional duties include managing and maintaining a knowledgebase along with monitoring configuration changes.
Level of Education Required: AA or 3 years direct experience
What do you think I should expect salary wise? I am a 23 year old recent college grad who is currently pursuing masters in Infosec
