Cyber Operations Analyst Security Clearance

Position: Cyber Operations Analyst with Security Clearance
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Department Summary:

MITRE is seeking a Cyber Analyst to join our Digital Investigations Department and contribute to challenging national security, law enforcement, cyber, and public-interest missions. Our work focuses on transforming digital data into actionable understanding. We combine technical analysis, investigative tradecraft, data analytics, and mission context to answer difficult questions, reconstruct events, identify malicious activity, reveal relationships, and support operational decision-making. Our staff work across a range of digital investigation specialties, including digital evidence and forensics, open-source and digital intelligence, investigative analytics, adversary and activity analysis, operational investigations, and the development of new investigative capabilities and tradecraft.

This position is well suited for a technical professional who enjoys solving ambiguous problems, working with diverse types of digital data, learning new technologies, and applying technical skills to real-world investigative challenges.

Roles & Responsibilities :
In this role, the selected candidate may contribute to efforts that:
* Acquire and Analyze Digital Evidence:
Collect, preserve, examine, and interpret digital data from endpoints, mobile devices, networks, cloud environments, applications, and other digital sources.

* Conduct Digital Intelligence and OSINT Analysis:
Collect and analyze publicly available and online information, which may include social media, online identities, digital infrastructure, cryptocurrency activity, dark web sources, and other internet-based data.

* Perform Investigative Data Analysis:
Fuse, correlate, analyze, and visualize information from multiple sources to identify relationships, reconstruct events, resolve entities, discover patterns, and generate investigative insights.

* Analyze Targets and Malicious Activity:
Examine people, organizations, infrastructure, software, and digital behavior to better understand adversaries, campaigns, malicious activity, and complex digital interactions.

* Support Operational Investigations:
Apply technical and analytical methods to cyber, law enforcement, counterintelligence, insider threat, fraud, and other national security investigations and use findings to inform operational decisions.

* Develop Investigative Capabilities and Tradecraft:
Prototype and evaluate tools, automation, AI-enabled approaches, analytical methods, standards, and workflows that make digital investigations more effective, scalable, and repeatable.

* Evaluate Investigative Technologies:
Assess tools, platforms, datasets, and emerging technologies to understand their strengths, limitations, and applicability to investigative missions.

* Communicate Technical Findings:
Develop clear analytical products, visualizations, briefings, and technical documentation that explain findings and their implications to both technical and non-technical audiences.

* Collaborate Across Disciplines:
Work with investigators, analysts, software engineers, data scientists, researchers, mission experts, and sponsor stakeholders to solve complex problems.

* Explore Emerging Problems:
Research unfamiliar technologies, datasets, and investigative challenges; develop hypotheses; test analytical approaches; and identify new opportunities for…