Dark Wolf Solutions
Defensive Cyber Operations (DCO) Analyst
$90K–$145K
Ogden, Utah +1 · Full-time · Posted Aug 20, 2026
- Location
- Ogden, Utah
Ogden, Utah, United States - Experience
- 4+ years of relevant cybersecurity experience; 2+ years each in Splunk Enterprise and ELK Stack, and DoD cybersecurity requirements, policies, and procedures.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
- Visa sponsorship
- Must be a US citizen; hired employees must verify identity, confirm US citizenship, and complete employment eligibility verification.
About the job
Performs continuous defensive cyber monitoring and incident response across on-premises and AWS GovCloud environments, using AI/ML capabilities to improve threat detection and response.
What you'll do
- Monitor, correlate, and analyze security events using ELK and Splunk Enterprise; detect and respond to threats.
- Recommend and implement vulnerability mitigations, conduct intrusion and root-cause analysis, and document response actions.
- Develop DCO tactics, procedures, and supporting reports; participate in customer exercises.
What they ask for
- 4+ years of relevant cybersecurity experience, including direct SOC / vSOC / CSSP incident response experience.
- 2+ years of hands-on Splunk Enterprise and ELK Stack experience; experience analyzing security telemetry in AWS GovCloud; hands-on GitLab experience.
- 2+ years applying DoD cybersecurity requirements, policies, and procedures, including assessment and authorization activities; DoDD 8140 / 8570 IAT CSSP certification before hire (CEH, Security+, GCIH, CySA+ or equivalent).
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field; US Citizenship and active Top Secret/SCI clearance.
Nice to have
- Experience with AI/ML security tools; AWS Certified Security – Specialty.
- Splunk or Elastic certifications; experience with SPL and KQL/Lucene, SentinelOne or similar EDR, IaC tools, or other listed security tools and practices.
Pay
$90,000.00 - $145,000.00 USD base salary
Tools
ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana), Splunk Enterprise, AWS GovCloud, CloudTrail, VPC Flow Logs, AWS GuardDuty, GitLab, AI/ML
AI focus
Use AI and machine learning for threat detection, incident analysis, response, security-event triage, anomaly detection, and data correlation; AI/ML security tools are also preferred experience.
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