Digital Network Exploitation Analyst – Lead Associate – Dnea

Digital Network Exploitation Analyst – Lead Associate – Dnea

Requirements

• 7 years’ experience with an associate’s degree OR 5 years’ experience with a bachelor’s degree OR 3 years’ experience with a master’s degree OR 1 year experience with a PhD
• Completion of military trainings such as JCAC (Joint Cyber Analysis Course) may be considered towards the relevant experience requirement (i.e., 24-week JCAC course may count as 6 months of experience) or may be considered equivalent to a technical associates degree.
• Experience in computer or information systems design/development/analysis roles. Experience may also include engineering hardware and/or software, programming, computer/network security, vulnerability analysis, penetration testing, computer forensics, information assurance, systems engineering, and/or network and systems administration.
• Experience with evaluating target opportunities using all source data to understand and map target networks and to assist in developing detailed exploitation and operations plans.
• Experience analyzing SIGINT and cybersecurity data at multiple levels within the OSI network stack.
• Foreign language proficiency and Defense Language Proficiency Test (DLPT) scores may be considered as relevant experience.
• Active TS SCI security clearance with a current polygraph is required

Responsibilities

• Evaluate target opportunities using all source data to understand and map target networks, and to assist in developing detailed exploitation and operations plans.
• Analyze SIGINT and cybersecurity data at multiple levels up and down the OSI network stack and bring a solid understanding of logical/physical IP core infrastructure, communication devices and how they connect to networks, and the traffic movements in a network.
• Develop new tradecraft needed to perform this analysis as technologies evolve.
• Work together with government, military, and contractor personnel to develop shared understandings of intelligence needs, mission relevance, and areas of expertise.
• Apply your innate curiosity and analytical talent to form hypotheses, critically assess and choose analysis techniques, then query, merge, enrich, evaluate, and pivot within data to attain and share insights.
• Distill, document, contextualize and share your findings–including any new tradecraft that you develop–with teammates, stakeholders, and intelligence consumers.

Preferred Qualifications

• Understanding logical/physical IP core infrastructure, communication devices and how they connect to networks, and the traffic movements in a network.
• Knowledge of developing new tradecraft needed to perform this analysis as technologies evolve.