TS/SCI w/ POLY Computer Network Defense Analyst

Job Description

Job description

TS SCI with POLY REQUIRED

As a CDNA, you will:

Use information collected from a variety sources (e.g., intrusion detection systems, firewalls, network traffic logs, and host system logs) to identify potential vulnerabilities, respond to cyber events that occur, and defend against events that might occur

Help develop mitigations to strengthen network defenses and protect against attacks on network infrastructure devices or systems

Gain work experience spanning the gamut of data transport possibilities, such as traditional wired networks, wireless transport (including Wi-Fi and cellular), collaborative platforms such as video teleconferencing, and the hardware and software that support it all

Have the opportunity to advance your career as you develop increasing expertise in networking protocols and architectures, cloud security, Internet of Things protocols, and advanced network security

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

Required Qualifications

Relevant experience must be in some or all of the following:

Computer or information systems design/development, programming

Information/cyber/network security

Vulnerability analysis, penetration testing

Computer forensics

Information assurance

Systems engineering

Additionally, must have experience in network or system administration. If not credited toward education requirements, completion of military training in a relevant area will be considered towards relevant experience requirement (i.e., 20- to 24-week courses will count as six months of experience; 10-14 weeks will count as three months of experience). Such training includes:

JCAC (Joint Cyber Analysis Course)

Undergraduate Cyber Training (UCT)

Network Warfare Bridge Course (NWBC)/Intermediate Network Warfare Training (INWT)

Cyber Defense Operations

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. The total of all experience equivalencies is capped at half of the required years of experience.