Advanced Blue Cyber Analyst

Northern Virginia/DC Area
Full-time

Advanced Blue Cyber Analyst: Inspect data network traffic to identify any potential vulnerabilities or exploitations from malicious actors. As part of the assessment process, advanced cybersecurity operators makes a copy of the customer’s network traffic and then routes it through a number of software tools that scan the traffic for any indicator of malicious activity or vulnerabilities.



The Contractor shall be capable of and responsible for:
  • Conducting advanced cyber assessment technical planning and execution
  • Conduct planning for assessment operations
  • Provide technical insights and recommendations to the DTRA Cyber Division Chief.
  • Collaborate with DoD leadership, assessment coordinators, and authoritative subject matter expert to support the assessments
  • Provide recommendations on appropriate hardware and software required to optimize advanced cyber assessments
  • Interface with technical staff within DTRA Information Technology commercial vendors
  • Participate in annual updates to the SOPs by providing recommendations to the DTRA Cyber Division Chief
The Contractor shall be capable of and responsible for:
  • Must have IAT Level II and CSSP Auditor Certification
  • Possess the knowledge, skills, and ability to operate the advanced cyber analytical toolkit and perform required assessments
  • Possess a Bachelor’s degree in a technical field such as computer science or engineering. In lieu of a degree, 10 years of directly related operational experience may be substituted as agreed to by the government
  • Possess working knowledge of DoD’s IT system and network certification and accreditation processes to include system security authorization agreements
  • Experience conducting Information Operations Computer Network Defense/Exploitation assessments
  • Programming experience (Perl, Python, C, etc.)
  • Experience with firewalls and network TAP technologies
  • Strong experience with security monitoring, threat hunting, packet analysis, malware analysis, signature development, shell scripting
  • Familiarity with Linux environments (Red Hat, CentOS, Ubuntu)
  • Installing, configuring, administering software applications
  • Possess troubleshooting skills in problems with software and hardware
  • Configuring, managing and maintaining networking equipment
  • Strong computer networking skills
  • Possess working knowledge of Department of Defense’s Information Assurance
  • Possess a working knowledge of Computer Network vulnerability/compliance analysis software

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