Senior Cyber Warfare Threat Analyst

Washington DC
September 15, 2024
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Job Description

Job Title:  Senior Cyber Analyst

City: Alexandria

State: Virginia

Position Requirements

Active DoD Top Secret / SCI Clearance

Counterintelligence Polygraph

MINIMUM SKILLS REQUIRED:

Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree and eight (8) years’ relevant work-related experience

  • Core defense intelligence all-source analysis experience working with Intelligence Production Centers and using intelligence tools/data sources to solve complex problems
  • Excellent ability to research, analyze, document, and convey technical information
  • Familiarity with intelligence tools including Defense Intelligence Threat Library, Validated Online Lifecycle Threat reports, Community On-Line Intelligence System for End Users and Managers, Intelligence Production Center “Request for Information” process, Intelligence Community databases, Intelligence Mission Data (IMD), Lifecycle Mission Data Plans, and Critical Intelligence Parameters
  • Excellent verbal, writing, and briefing skills with the ability to communicate both technical and operational information to wide-ranging audiences
  • Strong Net-Centric/cyber operations background with a deep understanding of current foreign threats
  • Demonstrated knowledge of current cyber threat actors/intrusion techniques and cyber threat avenues of attack

 

DESIRED SKILLS:

 

  • Ability to develop comprehensive threat analyses across the Net-Centric/cyber domain with a special emphasis on threat cyber capabilities
  • Cyber security/penetration testing experience
  • Cyber lab testing experience
  • Engineering background (i.e., education credentials and/or work experience)
  • Self-starter capable of working in a fast paced high-pressure team environment
  • High degree of attention to detail with strong organizational skills
  • Highly developed research and analytical skills
  • Functional knowledge of the T&E community to include familiarity with operational/developmental testing and threat exploitation agencies
  • Validation, verification, and accreditation process experience
  • Understanding of Defense Acquisition and the linkage between DOT&E activities and the acquisition process
  • Pentagon and/or Office of the Secretary of Defense-level experience

 

PRIMARY DUTIES, RESPONSIBILITIES & ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:

 

  • Conduct intelligence analysis to produce response products that answer DOT&E information requirements
  • Provide subject matter expertise, intelligence, and analytical support to DOT&E Air, Land and Expeditionary, Naval, Net-Centric, Space, and Missile Defense Warfare Deputies and Action Officers
  • Review and provide expert input into critical T&E and intelligence documents including Initial Capabilities Documents, Capabilities Development Documents, Capabilities Production Documents, T&E Master Plans, Test Plans, Defense Intelligence Threat Library Modules, Validated Online Lifecycle Threat reports, and T&E memorandums
  • Define test concept and test equipment threat requirements for testing operation of U. S. weapon systems in the presence of current and emerging threats
  • Evaluate proposed Cyber Warfare threat scenarios to inform threat realism for evaluating operational effectiveness, suitability, and survivability of military systems
  • Determine cyber threat resource requirements, availability, adequacy, and define gap between cyber threat emulation capability and the actual threat
  • Perform as part of a local or distributed team to develop intelligence briefings and analytic products to define operational threat environments
  • Liaison between the intelligence, acquisition, requirements and T&E communities
  • Provide oversight, leadership, technical support and guidance of threat M&S used to support various T&E implementations including support for allied partner nation M&S and T&E
  • Provides administrative and logistical preparation/planning and support for DOT&E T&E resources and infrastructure investment portfolios
  • Liaison between DOT&E warfare areas and North Atlantic Treaty Organization personnel
  • Responsible for working independently and taking broad Government leadership guidance and direction to develop and maintain an overall performance roadmap