Exploitation Analyst (EA)

Ft. Meade, MD

As an Exploitation Analyst, your responsibilities will include:

• Apply your deep understanding of adversary networks, network defenses, and cyber network operational capabilities to develop exploitation plans and make operational adjustments as plans are execute
• Be part of a team, working 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

Qualifications:

Education: Degree in Network Engineering, Systems Engineering, Information Technology, or related field (e.g., General Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Forensics, Cyber Security, Software Engineering, Information Assurance, or Computer Security). Note that 18 semester hours of military training/coursework in networking, computer science, or cyber topics is equivalent to an associates degree.

Relevant Experience: Relevant experience must be in computer or information systems design/development/analysis.  In addition, it 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.  Completion of military training in a relevant area such as JCAC (Joint Cyber Analysis Course) will be considered towards the relevant experience/education requirement (i.e., 24-week JCAC course will count as 6 months of experience). In some cases, foreign language proficiency may also be used to satisfy experience requirements; recent Interagency Language Roundtable (ILR) scores are required to substantiate your proficiency level.

• Active TS/SCI with polygraph

• Specific labor category determined by years of experience + educational degrees:

Level Qualifications:

Level 1

• 2 years’ applicable experience with a bachelor’s degree, OR

• 4 years’ applicable experience with associate degree
  

Level 2

• 2 years’ applicable experience with a PhD, OR

• 3 years’ applicable experience with a master’s degree, OR

• 5 years’ applicable experience with a bachelor’s degree, OR

• 7 years’ applicable experience with an associate degree
  

Level 3

• 4 years’ applicable experience with a PhD, OR

• 6 years’ applicable experience with a master’s degree, OR

• 8 years’ applicable experience with a bachelor’s degree, OR

• 10 years’ applicable experience with an associate degree
  

Level 4

• 7 years’ applicable experience with a PhD, OR

• 9 years’ applicable experience with a master’s degree, OR

• 11 years’ applicable experience with a bachelor’s degree, OR

• 13 years’ applicable experience with an associate degree