Digital Network Exploitation Analyst (DNEA) *ALL LEVELS*
Ft Meade, MDOn-site
AI Summary
Analyzes SIGINT and cybersecurity data across the OSI stack to map target networks and develop exploitation plans. Collaborates with government, military, and contractor teams to share intelligence insights and develop new tradecraft as technologies evolve.
About this role
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.
LEVEL 1: Bachelors Degree + 2 years of experience
LEVEL 2: Bachelors Degree + 5 years of experience
LEVEL 3: Bachelors Degree + 8 years of experience
LEVEL 4: Bachelors Degree + 11 years of experience
Degree Type: Computer Science or related fields (Engineering, Mathematics) may be considered relevant if programs contain a concentration of courses in the following foundational CS areas: algorithms, computer architecture (not network architecture), programming methodologies and languages, data structures, logic and computation, and advanced mathematics (for example, calculus, discrete mathematics).
Skills
AlgorithmsCalculusComputer ArchitectureCybersecurityData StructuresDiscrete MathematicsIP Core InfrastructureLogic And ComputationNetwork Traffic AnalysisOSI ModelProgramming MethodologiesSIGINT
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