Cybersecurity Intelligence Counterintelligence Analyst

MANTECH seeks a mission-focused Cybersecurity Intelligence and Counterintelligence Analyst located at Vandenberg Space Force Base, CA
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Supporting the 630th Cyberspace Squadron (630 CYS), Space Launch Delta 30, this on-site role at Vandenberg Space Force Base, CA, protects Western Launch and Test Range Systems (W-LTRS). You will provide intelligence analysis, CI-informed research, cyber threat intelligence, and mission assurance across range safety networks, telemetry, tracking infrastructure, electrical distribution, and Industrial Control System (ICS) environments.

Working under senior leadership, the Intelligence and Counterintelligence Analyst monitors cyber threat reporting, research adversary activity, supports collection planning, and maintains threat databases. This role delivers timely reporting on cyber risks affecting launch-critical systems in support of authorized cyber defense operations, without carrying independent CI investigative or law enforcement authority.

• Conduct intelligence research and analysis using authorized intelligence reporting, cyber threat intelligence sources, mission data, open-source information, and other approved repositories relevant to Western Range operations.
• Monitor designated cyber threat intelligence platforms and reporting channels for emerging threats, adversary campaigns, indicators of compromise, technical indications and warnings, suspicious activity, and potential foreign cyber threat indicators affecting mission systems.
• Support senior analysts with cyber threat analysis, adversary profiling, pattern-of-life analysis, and proactive threat-hunting activities across designated mission environments.
• Research and document adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs), malware, indicators of compromise, cyber infrastructure, targeting patterns, and active cyber campaigns; identify analytic gaps and elevate significant findings to senior analysts and designated government personnel.
• Support intelligence requirements, collection planning, and information-gap management in coordination with mission-planning cells, range operators, cybersecurity personnel, and authorized intelligence partners.
• Draft, review, and maintain intelligence products and analytic records, including threat summaries, assessments, indications-and-warning products, briefing materials, executive summaries, technical reports, Requests for Information (RFIs), intelligence databases, production trackers, and source-reference documentation.
• Support Mission Area Intelligence Preparation of the Battlefield (IPB) reassessments and weekly intelligence briefings by conducting research, validating information, updating source material, identifying adversary trends, and preparing leadership presentation materials.
• Support analysis and exercise activities affecting mission-critical systems, including Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA), industrial control systems, operational technology, and electrical distribution infrastructure; assist with threat-emulation activities, cyber exercises, post-action validation, lessons learned, and recommended cyber-hardening actions.

• Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Intelligence, IT, Engineering, or a related field.; an additional 4 years of relevant experience might be substituted for a degree.
• 2+ years of relevant experience in intelligence analysis, cyber threat intelligence, cybersecurity operations, defensive cyber operations, security operations, threat analysis, counterintelligence support, military operations, or a related field.
• Foundational knowledge of cyber threat intelligence, intelligence requirements, collection management, intelligence production,…