DMS Seeks to Hire a Cyber Defense Incident Responder

The Florida Department of Management Services (DMS) is recruiting for a cyber defense incident responder to join the Florida Digital Service (FLDS).

The incumbent will report to the FLDS’ incident response lead and investigate, analyze and respond to cyber incidents within the agency’s network environment.

Additional job functions and responsibilities include:

• Providing targeted attack detection and analysis and developing custom signatures, SIEM/EDR queries and analytics to help identify attacks 
• Leading and facilitating investigatory processes with mission partners by identifying root causes for security events, evaluating anomalous activity and tuning for frequent false positives 
• Providing forensic analysis of network packet captures, live memory captures, drive acquisitions, malware and logs from various types of security sensors, applications and operating systems 
• Participating in security architecture reviews for new projects to ensure proposed solutions align with risk requirements 
• Participating in the design and execution of vulnerability assessments, penetration tests and security audits 

Also required by the agency are the following skills, abilities and knowledge:

• Ability to accurately define incidents, problems and events within the agency’s trouble ticketing system 
• Knowledge of local area and wide area networking principles and concepts, including bandwidth management 
• Skill in configuring and utilizing software-based computer protection tools such as software firewalls, antivirus software and anti-spyware 
• Knowledge of computer networking concepts, protocols and network security methodologies 
• Ability to operate standard network tools such as ping, traceroute and nslookup 

More information can be found in the duty statement. The yearly salary range is $75,000 to $90,000, and the application deadline is Nov. 11.