Nightwing Intelligence Solutions

Provides specialized, technology-enabled national security services

Cyber Action Officer

Security Operations & Incident ResponseConfirmed live in the last 24 hours

Full-timeArlington County, Arlington, VA, USA$99k - $206k

About the Job

Requirements

U.S. citizenship is required.
An active Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information clearance is required.
Must be able to obtain Department of Homeland Security suitability.
At least five years of directly relevant experience in cyber incident management or cybersecurity operations is required.
Knowledge of network security monitoring and/or security operations analysis, system administration, operating system hardening, cyber hygiene techniques, and cybersecurity defense policies, procedures, and regulations is required.
Knowledge of incident response, threat hunting, and handling methodologies is required.
Ability to track multiple active engagements, personnel or equipment deployments, and coordinate with internal and external stakeholders is required.
Knowledge of the National Cyber Incident Scoring System is required to prioritize incident triage.
Knowledge of general attack stages, including footprinting and scanning, enumeration, gaining access, privilege escalation, maintaining access, network exploitation, and covering tracks, is required.
Skill in recognizing threat actor campaigns, tactics, techniques, and procedures is required.
Familiarity with basic system and network administration, traffic analysis techniques, and Computer Network Defense policies, procedures, and regulations is required.
Knowledge of operational threat environments, including first-generation script kiddies, second-generation non-state-sponsored actors, and third-generation nation-state-sponsored actors, is required.
Knowledge of system and application security threats and vulnerabilities, including buffer overflow, mobile code, cross-site scripting, PL/SQL and injections, race conditions, covert channels, replay, return-oriented attacks, and malicious code, is required.
A Bachelor of Science degree in Incident Management, Operations Management, Cybersecurity, or a related field is required; alternatively, a high school diploma with 7–9 years of incident management or cybersecurity experience is accepted.
Excellent oral and written communication skills are required.

Responsibilities

Support management of cyber incidents through the intelligence lifecycle.
Create, consolidate, and maintain routine cyber incident reporting in official systems of record, including case management systems and ticketing systems.
Coordinate with internal and external customers, partners, and stakeholders.
Ingest, validate, and evaluate information to determine optimal courses of action, including providing response support to requesting entities.
Update and track cases and tickets accurately, reliably, consistently, and in a timely manner.
Draft summaries of ongoing operations and provide oral presentations for various levels of leadership.
Maintain knowledge objects in systems of record consistently and professionally.
Manage threats and vulnerabilities by recognizing and categorizing vulnerabilities, threat actors, operational threat environments, and associated attacks using the MITRE ATT&CK framework.
Maintain team rosters and distribution lists, including email and chat lists.
Monitor and consolidate new and existing tasks and requirements using customer online portals; route and coordinate tasks across the organization; and consolidate inputs into coherent responses or deliverables.
Facilitate, log, and actively support tasks and projects, completing staff-level work and coordination to facilitate successful resolution.
Provide comprehensive meeting support for the customer, including coordination, dissemination, deconfliction, and logistics.
Monitor and maintain the customer team personnel roster while collaborating, coordinating, and informing the customer of the overall status of the seating environment.
Collaborate and coordinate with colleagues, customers, partners, and stakeholders to consolidate feedback on customer services and products and promote continuous improvement of workflows, procedures, and repeatable processes.

Desired Qualifications

Familiarity with operational threat environments, including first-generation script kiddies, second-generation non-state-sponsored actors, and third-generation nation-state-sponsored actors.
Familiarity with system and application security threats and attack methods, including buffer overflow, mobile code, cross-site scripting, PL/SQL and injections, race conditions, covert channels, replay, return-oriented attacks, and malicious code.
Working knowledge of cyber threat intelligence functions, including contextualized analysis.
Cyber threat intelligence experience applying intelligence-cycle doctrine to cyber intelligence planning.
Familiarity with cybersecurity and cyber threat intelligence communications terminology, concepts, and subject matter.
Experience creating technical briefings, including executive leadership briefings.
Experience providing summaries to executive-level leadership.
GCIH certification.

Nightwing provides technically advanced full-spectrum cyber, data operations, systems integration and intelligence mission support services to meet our customers’ most demanding challenges. Our capabilities include cyber space operations, cyber defense and resiliency, vulnerability research, ubiquitous technical surveillance, data intelligence, lifecycle mission enablement, and software modernization. Nightwing brings disruptive technologies, agility, and competitive offerings to customers in the intelligence community, defense, civil, and commercial markets.

Nightwing is supporting a U.S. Government customer to provide support for onsite incident response to civilian Government agencies and critical asset owners who experience cyber-attacks, providing immediate investigation and resolution. Contract personnel perform investigations to characterize the severity of breaches, develop mitigation plans, and assist with the restoration of services. Nightwing is seeking a Cyber Action Officer to support this critical customer mission.

Responsibilities:

Supporting management of cyber incidents through the intelligence lifecycle.
Creating, consolidating and maintaining routine reporting of cyber incidents in official systems of record, to include case management systems and ticketing.
Coordinating with internal and external customers, partners, and stakeholders.
Ingesting, validating, and evaluating information to determine optimal courses of action, to include providing response support to requesting entities.
Updating and tracking cases and tickets with accuracy, timeliness, reliability, and consistency.
Drafting summaries of ongoing operations and providing oral presentations for various levels of leadership.
Maintaining knowledge objects in system of record consistently and professionally.
Threat and vulnerability management to recognize and categorize types of vulnerabilities, threat actors, and different operational threat environments, and associated attacks (MITRE ATT&CK framework).
Maintaining team rosters and distribution lists (e.g., email, chat).
Monitoring and consolidating new and existing tasks/requirements using customer online portals; properly routing and coordinating tasks across organization; consolidating inputs into a coherent response or deliverable.
Facilitating, logging and actively supporting tasks and projects; completing staff-level work and coordination to facilitate successful resolution.
Providing comprehensive meeting support for customer (e.g., coordinate, disseminate, deconflict, logistics).
Monitoring and maintaining personnel roster for customer team, while collaborating, coordinating and informing customer of overall status of seating environment.
Actively collaborate and coordinate with colleagues (e.g., AOs, customers, partners, and stakeholders) to consolidate feedback on customer services and products to promote continuous improvement of workflows, procedures, and repeatable processes.

Required Skills:

U.S. Citizenship
Must have an active TS/SCI clearance
Must be able to obtain DHS Suitability
5+ years of directly relevant experience in cyber incident management or cybersecurity operations
Knowledge of network security monitoring and/or security operations analysis, system administration, operating system hardening, cyber hygiene techniques, and cybersecurity defense policies, procedures, and regulations.
Knowledge of incident response, threat hunting, and handling methodologies
Ability to track multiple active engagements, personnel or equipment deployments, as well as coordinate with internal and external stakeholders.
Knowledge of the NCCIC National Cyber Incident Scoring System to be able to prioritize triaging of incident.
Knowledge of general attack stages (e.g., foot printing and scanning, enumeration, gaining access, escalation of privileges, maintaining access, network exploitation, covering tracks, etc.).
Skill in recognizing threat actor campaigns, tactics, techniques, and procedures.
Familiar with basic system and network administration, traffic analysis techniques, Computer Network Defense policies, procedures and regulations.
Knowledge of different operational threat environments (e.g., first generation [script kiddies], second generation [non-nation-state sponsored], and third generation [nation-state sponsored]).
Knowledge of system and application security threats and vulnerabilities (e.g., buffer overflow, mobile code, cross-site scripting, PL/SQL and injections, race conditions, covert channel, replay, return- oriented attacks, and malicious code)

Excellent oral and written communication skills.

Desired Skills:

Familiarity with different operational threat environments (e.g., first generation [script kiddies], second generation [non-nation-state sponsored], and third generation [nation-state sponsored])
Familiarity with system and application security threats and attack methods (e.g., buffer overflow, mobile code, cross-site scripting, PL/SQL and injections, race conditions, covert channel, replay, return- oriented attacks, and malicious code)
Working knowledge of Cyber threat intelligence (CTI) functions (e.g., contextualized analysis).
CTI experience with respect to understanding and applying intelligence cycle doctrine to cyber intelligence planning.
Familiarity with cybersecurity/CTI communications terminology, concepts, and subject matter.
Experience with creating technical briefings, to include executive leadership briefings.
Experience providing summaries to executive level leadership.

Required Education:

BS Incident Management, Operations Management, Cybersecurity or related degree. HS Diploma with 7-9 incident management or cyber security experience

Desired Certifications:

GCIH

Salary & Benefits

The salary associated with this position ($99,000-$206,000) is commensurate with the selected candidate’s qualifications, years of relevant experience, and demonstrated level of expertise. Compensation will be determined based on these factors to ensure alignment with skills, responsibilities, and market standards.

Nightwing offers medical, vision and dental insurance coverage in addition to a 401k plan, PTO, Holidays, and additional insurances.

Nightwing is An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, age or any other federally protected class.

About the Company

Nightwing Intelligence Solutions

Provides specialized, technology-enabled national security services

Nightwing Intelligence Solutions provides national security and intelligence services to U.S. government agencies and select commercial clients, delivering highly specialized, technology-enabled capabilities across cyber offense and defense, cyber protection, high-consequence missions, and engineering programs. Its work includes full-spectrum cyber operations (reverse engineering, threat intelligence, data operations, secure communications), mission systems integration, software modernization, and secure data transport, complemented by managed cybersecurity through the Roka Security acquisition. Nightwing differentiates itself with an agile, independent structure backed by private equity and leadership from Raytheon/RTX and the CIA, enabling faster, more flexible responses than larger primes. Its goal is to ensure mission success for high-stakes national security operations by providing advanced cyber capabilities, rapid systems integration, and trusted protection of critical data.

Company size: 1,001-5,000
Company stage: N/A
Total funding: $6.6M
Headquarters: Sterling, VA
Founded: Not listed

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