Node.Digital
Incident Manager (Junior)
Arlington, Virginia · Manager · Full-time · Posted Sep 16, 2026
- Experience
- 2+ years of directly relevant experience; alternatively, HS Diploma with 4–6 years of incident management or cybersecurity experience.
- Education
- BS in Incident Management, Operations Management, Cybersecurity, or a related degree; alternatively, HS Diploma with 4–6 years of incident management or cybersecurity experience.
About the job
Supports a U.S. Government customer by triaging, investigating, coordinating, and documenting cyber incidents through resolution during an assigned onsite shift.
What you'll do
- Triage incidents to assess scope, urgency, impact, and likely cause; analyze alerts and incident data.
- Research mitigation steps, recommend defensive practices, and monitor threat information relevant to the enterprise.
- Track incidents from detection through resolution and coordinate information with other organizational components.
What they ask for
- U.S. citizenship and an active TS/SCI clearance; must be able to obtain DHS Suitability.
- 2+ years of directly relevant experience in cyber incident management or cybersecurity operations.
- Knowledge of incident response methodologies, NIST 800-62, FISMA incident reporting standards, and the NCCIC National Cyber Incident Scoring System.
- Knowledge of attack stages, vulnerabilities and attacks, system administration, operating system hardening, and CND policies and procedures.
Nice to have
- GCIH, GCFA, GISP, GCED, CCFP, or CISSP certification.
- Knowledge of operational threat environments and system and application security threats and vulnerabilities.
Tools
NIST 800-62, FISMA, NCCIC National Cyber Incident Scoring System
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