Digital Network Exploitation Analyst, Senior

Digital Network Exploitation Analyst, Senior

Do you have strong analytic skills and a problem-solving mindset? Are you looking for an opportunity to use those skills to support our warfighters, protect our national security, and inform our nation's leaders? As a network and access discovery analyst, you will use your specialized technical experience to support cyberspace operations and enable the success of mission owners. As a Digital Network Exploitation Analyst on our team, you will provide expert analytic support while working alongside the mission owners to tackle complex and challenging problems in computer network analysis, network exploitation, digital network intelligence, dataflow, access development, and target network analysis. Your duties will require you to leverage an understanding of ports, protocols, networking devices, and common exploitation frameworks. This will provide an opportunity to grow your expertise, develop new skills and tradecraft, use and share your methodologies and tool experience with other analysts, and most importantly, be a part of a team conducting offensive cyberspace operations that are crucial to national security.

You Have:

• 10+ years of experience with network exploitation or signals intelligence analysis
• Experience recognizing technical and operational gaps and identifying appropriate collection, analysis, or testing activities to reduce associated unknowns
• Experience analyzing Active Directory, Kerberos, LDAP, SMB, DNS, VPN, or cloud
• Experience developing, adapting, or improving DNEA methodologies, exploitation workflows, technical tradecraft, or analytic processes, mentoring and developing DNEAs, and improving the technical and analytical capabilities of an operational team
• Knowledge of network protocols, authentication mechanisms, encryption, operating systems, enterprise network architectures, virtualization, and common security technologies
• Ability to lead complex DNEA efforts from initial mission requirement through target analysis, exploitation development and support, operational execution, and transition of results to appropriate mission stakeholders
• Ability to evaluate exploitation opportunities based on technical feasibility, mission relevance, operational risk, and likelihood of success
• Ability to communicate complex network findings, exploitation concepts, technical assessments, risks, and recommendations to senior government and military leadership in concise, decision-relevant terms TS/SCI clearance with a polygraph HS diploma or GED

Nice If You Have:

• Experience with network exploitation, vulnerability analysis, penetration testing, red teaming, adversary emulation, or authorized offensive cyber operations
• Experience supporting joint cyber operations or comparable cyber mission organizations
• Experience operating in highly collaborative environments involving intelligence analysts, cyber operators, planners, engineers, vulnerability researchers, and mission leadership
• Experience serving as the primary DNEA expert for an operational team, mission, target set, or customer
• Experience developing or maintaining technical exploitation capabilities, methodologies, or tradecraft used across multiple missions or target environments
• Experience identifying opportunities to automate repetitive technical analysis or exploitation activities
• Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical field
• Network+, Security+, CEH, OSCP, OSCE, CCNA, GIAC, or comparable technical certification
• Clearance: Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information; TS/SCI clearance with polygraph is required.

Clearance:

Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information; TS/SCI clearance with polygraph is required.

Compensation

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