Cryptographic Analyst

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As a cyber mission specialist, you understand the value of hunt-forward operations, and you know that battles are won in the grey. At Booz Allen, you can use your cyberspace operations experience to create solutions that will be executed on a worldwide stage. We’re looking for an experienced cyber mission specialist like you to apply your knowledge in cryptographic analysis and impact our nation’s security.
In this role, you’ll be counted on to understand cyberspace capabilities to evaluate potential weaknesses as well as the effectiveness of mitigations for cyber security solutions. You will leverage cyberspace operations systems to aggregate threat feeds that inform briefings for senior leadership aligned to our nation's security.
This is an opportunity to use your research and analysis abilities to adequately assess and inform operators and senior leadership, and commanders on dynamic adversarial tactics, techniques, and procedures for national security.

Your role will be vital in the development of operations plans to support command and control.
If you want to be in the fight, working shoulder to shoulder with our government clients, influencing the most critical global cyber missions, this is the opportunity for you.
Join us. The world can’t wait.

• 5+ years of experience in cryptographic analysis, computer science, law enforcement, or military cryptographic or exploitation in relation to targeted data
• 3+ years of experience participating in projects or investigations
• Experience designing, implementing, and analyzing algorithms for solving problems
• Experience exploiting mobile device operating systems like iOS and Android
• Ability to develop methods to diagnose weaknesses in cryptographic algorithms and exploit computer network vulnerabilities
• Ability to assist in processing and analyzing information or garbled intercepts
• Ability to develop new cryptanalysis tools

• Experience with Net Flow collection, cryptocurrency data, commercial records, social media data, and historical website data
• Experience with network protocols such as TCP, IP, or DNS and interpreting network traffic, operating systems such as Linux or Windows, and threat actor use of 3rd party encrypted applications including analyse structure of encrypted data
• Experience developing methods to spot weaknesses in cryptographic algorithms, exploit vulnerabilities, examine packet collection, and exploit encrypted materials
• Knowledge of scripting to parse massive log files, query APIs, and normalize unstructured data
• Knowledge of network monitoring tools, IP analysis, PCAP data, encrypted traffic analysis and unencrypted metadata including packet lengths or handshake traits

Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information;
Top Secret clearance is required.

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