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Senior IT Security Analyst-NIGC
Location:Washington DC Metro Area
Security Clearance:Public Trust
Salary/Pay Rate-
FT/PT Status:Full Time Employment
Job Code:2026-21INFOSY-007
  
Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

We are seeking a Senior IT Security Analyst for IMMEDIATE HIRE to support our NIGC contract. 

What You'll Be Doing Day to Day

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
  • Perform all security analysis activities according to established standards.
  • Maintain threat awareness and monitor NIGC information systems for exploits and any suspicious activities; analyze aggregated logs and reports from security tools.
  • Develop a daily security analysis and reporting checklist and execute activities identified in the checklist.
  • Evaluate effectiveness of security analysis activities compared to best practices and recommend improvements.
  • Adhere to Continuous Monitoring practices to evaluate the effectiveness of implemented security controls and execute proactive threat hunting activities to ensure confidentiality, integrity, and availability of NIGC information systems.
  • Develop detection and response configuration policies to increase automation and alerting.
  • Develop Incident handling procedures.
  • Execute Incident Response activities to include all associated actions according to the NIGC incident response plan.
  • Validate that sufficient and relevant information is captured and retained from security tools to support actionable security awareness and incident investigations.
  • Collect security operations performance and NIGC security posture management metrics and prepare NIGC threat reports to inform risk management decisions.
Required Qualifications:

Required Experience & Qualifications 

Education, Skills and Experience
  • Bachelor Degree in Information Technology is desired.
Preferred Skills & Certifications:



  • Security + Certification required.




Level of Security Clearance: Public Trust [Required]