Military Systems Cyber Analyst

Description

Do you have a passion for problem solving, holistic perspective, and cybersecurity experience?

Do you enjoy leading multi-disciplinary teams towards innovative solutions?

Do you want to make meaningful contributions that enable the U.S. to prevail against ever-evolving threats?

The Mission Engineering Group of the Force Projection Sector at JHU/APL is seeking a motivated technical professional to help advance and apply cyber capabilities to critical U.S. missions. As a member of our team, you will collaborate with multi-disciplinary groups of engineers and domain experts to analyze military missions and systems to identify, implement, and test robust and effective solutions to cyber challenges.

We care about making a real-world impact and solving the operational needs of the military organizations that we support.

The Mission Engineering Group develops solutions that enable warfighters to harness a wide-ranging set of sensors, weapons, and platforms for precision strike missions critical to our nation's defense. We perform mission engineering and analysis using a mission-first, data-driven process to make recommendations to the Department of War that improve warfighter outcomes.

We emphasize engineering rigor, collaboration, and continuous improvement while promoting a culture of innovation and technical excellence.

• Apply a holistic adversary-like approach in the evaluation of U.S. systems and operations;
  Maintain up-to-date knowledge of recent advances in the field and of cyber-threats.
• Lead and contribute to multi-disciplinary teams to evaluate and assure mission outcomes;
  Provide mentorship to junior and mid-level team members.
• Inform and assist with strategy formulation and execution, sponsor engagement, and partnering across JHU/APL and beyond.
• Collaborate with operational, technical, and acquisition authorities to analyze U.S. military missions, operations, and systems to identify and prioritize vulnerabilities.
• Conduct analysis and guide the employment of technology, people, training and processes to achieve the most robust and resilient capabilities against nation-state adversaries.
• Guide and perform security engineering by applying rigorous principles, best practices, and analytic outputs to inform assured systems development and operations, from concept to disposal.
• Share knowledge by clearly articulating ideas and findings in written documents and presentations to technical staff, management, government decision makers, and other stakeholders;
  Identify and employ tools and technologies, data models, data analytics, reporting and visualization approaches to inform and accelerate decision-making.

You meet the minimum qualifications for this position if you...

• Possess a Bachelor of Science or Engineering degree (B.S. or B.E.) in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Computer or Electrical Engineering, Applied Mathematics, or other relevant technical field.
• Have at least seven years of relevant experience in defense, intelligence, or related mission domains.
• Have professional experience with demonstrated knowledge at the intermediate or higher level in at least three of the following areas:
• mission assurance or operational resilience concepts and methods;
• systems / mission engineering or operations research / analysis;
• system and cyber resiliency concepts and methods;
• system security engineering or system security design/architectures;
• DoD anti-tamper practices and technical solutions;
• hardware or software assurance;
• system red-teaming, penetration testing, or cybersecurity vulnerability assessment;
• cyber threat intelligence and assessments;
• communication and network security design or operations;
• hardware or software reverse engineering;
• cybersecurity situational awareness tools and techniques;
• cybersecurity incident response or forensics;
• scripting and prototype software development in one or more languages
• Are recognized as a trusted technical authority and collaborative leader, and are motivated to influence technical strategy, engineering culture, and best practices.
• Have demonstrated experience scoping and shaping technical efforts to effectively meet the needs of the end user within established constraints.
• Are comfortable managing ambiguity in order to achieve successful outcomes.
• Have strong initiative with drive to continually learn and improve your abilities.
• Are able to think outside the box to…