ASSIGNMENT DESCRIPTION: This position is located in Springfield, VA. Purpose of this position is to serve as a CI Cyber Officer, performing CI Cyber Threat Analyst in support of National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), Office of Counterintelligence (SIC).
JOB SUMMARY: CI Cyber Threat Analyst will oversee production. They will ensure all required reports are complete with minimal errors and that all processes, activities, and reports are conducted with in established time frames. Team Chiefs will also ensure analysts are trained in and follow current standard operating procedures. They will contribute to the following annual production requirements.
DUTIES:
- Produce weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual actionable Technical CI (Cyber /TSCM/TEMPEST) threat reports in collaboration with teammates. NGA partners with Intelligence Community (IC) peers, as necessary.
- Produce CI Information Reports and IIRs from data collected and reported by either the Technical CI team or the NGA cyber security personnel.
- Perform inquiries of anomalous activity using automated investigative tools (For example: M3, Palantir, TAC, ARCSIGHT, RSA Security Analytics, CCD, QLIX, TIDE or Criss Cross.
- Provide Technical CI advice and expertise in support of CI inquiries, operations and issues.
- Develop leads by detecting anomalous activity, conducting open source and classified research, and liaison with internal and external partners.
- Conduct research, evaluate collection, and perform analysis on Technical CI intelligence topics of interest to leadership, analysis, and customers.
- Demonstrate ab ability to draw high-quality, appropriate and objective conclusions from information in a timely manner.
- Research, analyze, and synthesize All-Source data to identify patterns, commonalities, and linkage.
- Demonstrate current subject matter expertise on Technical CI issues, threats and trends. (For example: Cyber threats and Technical Surveillance threats.)
- Demonstrate and master the ability to self-edit and produce clearly written, properly sourced and grammatically correct intelligence products that adhere to established style guide and template standards.
- Demonstrate proficiency in use of bottom-line up-front (BLUF) writing.
- Display an ability to collaboratewith internal NGA and external IC/Cyber community members.
- Coordinate CI Cyber activities originating from Enterprise Incident Response Events.
- Conduct liaison between CI Office and Cyber Security Operations Center (CSOC)
- Perform threat analysis, threat forecasts, threat alerts, and recommend countermeasures.
SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:
REQUIRED: Shall possess a minimum of 11years Threat Analysis experience of which at least 5 of those include Technical Analysis experience or cyber investigations. Shall possess a Bachelor’s degree in any discipline.
DESIRED: Be a credentialed graduate of an accredited federal or DoD CI training academy. Possess a Bachelor’s degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics discipline. Possess post-graduate degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics disciplines. Demonstrated experience with foreign adversaries’ security and intelligence services, terrorist organizations, and threats posed to the US Government.
ADDITIONAL JOB REQUIREMENT:
Minimum Clearance Required: Top Secret security clearance with access to Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI).