Security Analyst, Incident Responder

AnaVation LLC

Security Analyst leading incident response activities and vulnerability management at AnaVation for Federal clients. Collaborating with senior leadership and managing security tools and protocols.

Posted 7/7/2026full-timeVirginia • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

SplunkSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Assist the client leadership with vulnerability management and incident response activities.
Lead and manage Incident Response (IR) activities to include triage, investigating, interviewing, resolving, and reporting on events.
Creating, updating, and/or revising the IR Playbook and IR Plan.
Monitor, maintain and administer policies and rules within EDR and SIEM tools (e.g., Crowdstrike, Splunk).
Support and develop reports during and after incidents, which include all actions taken to properly mitigate, recover and return operations to normal operations.
Develop and implement defensive cyber best practice tactics, techniques, and procedures.
Maintain Incident Ticketing tracking system and related tickets within Remedy or other tracking tools.
Monitor and take action within multiple tools providing security functions such as vulnerability management (e.g., Nessus), configuration management (e.g., Tenable Security Center, IBM BigFix, SCCM), endpoint protection (e.g., antivirus, ATP), intrusion detection software and hardware.
Manage and perform Splunk queries to examine and query log data from the Enterprise Logging as a Service system and perform log analysis.
Ensure system and application logs are being sent to enterprise SIEM tool for log monitoring.
Conduct and manage vulnerability scans using Tenable SC and/or Qualys.
Analyze scan results, prioritize findings by risk and impact, coordinate with responsible parties for remediation and validate false positives.
Interacting with GRC tool (e.g., CSAM) to perform daily/weekly vulnerability analysis.
Creating and compiling weekly security metrics into dashboards and charts.
Presenting vulnerability analysis to system admins, system owners, and leadership.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent demonstrated experience and knowledge.
6 years’ experience as a Security Administrator or equivalent knowledge.
Hands-on experience conducting incident response activities and vulnerability analysis of various systems, applications, security tools, databases, and networks logs.
Performing vulnerability scans with tools such as Tenable or Qualys.
Experience with Crowdstrike, TenableSC, Splunk. (Experience with comparable tools may be considered).
Experience with NIST SP 800-61 rev2 Computer Security Incident Handling Guide.
Excellent oral and written communication skills.
Familiarity with multi-tiered network applications, common ports and protocols used in those communications, the Common Vulnerability System (CVS) and the exploitation mechanisms of common vulnerability types (e.g., buffer overflows, cross-site-scripting, SQL injection).
Ability to perform online research and comprehend attack signatures while comparing them to network traffic to perform proper analysis of detections.
Ability to use common tools such as Wireshark to examine network traffic.
Certifications: Security + required.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Generous cost sharing for medical insurance for the employee and dependents
100% company paid dental insurance for employees and dependents
100% company paid long-term and short-term disability insurance
100% company paid vision insurance for employees and dependents
401k plan with generous match and 100% immediate vesting
Competitive Pay
Generous paid leave and holiday package
Tuition and training reimbursement
Life and AD&D Insurance

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Hard Skills & Tools

Incident Response ActivitiesVulnerability ScanningLog AnalysisSecurity Policy AdministrationDefensive Cyber Tactics

Soft Skills

Excellent Communication Skills

Certifications

Security +