Junior Cyber Analyst

Job Description

Cyber Analyst - Junior

This position requires an active TS/Sensitive Compartmental Information (SCI) clearance.

Cherokee Insights is seeking a Cyber Analyst to provide junior-level cyber analysis to identify, assess, and disrupt threats to cleared industry, cleared personnel, DOD, and Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA).

Compensation & Benefits:

Pay commensurate with experience.

Full time benefits include Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K, and other possible benefits as provided. Benefits are subject to change with or without notice.

Cyber Analyst - Junior Responsibilities Include:

• Facilitate USG responses to adversary action and insider threats by sharing threat indicators and enabling responsive measures from other agencies and services.
• Develop cyber capabilities and processes that illuminate threats, enhance awareness, and enable customer response.
• Operationalize an enterprise security risk management methodology across Government and industry stakeholders.
• Provide CI Cyber analytic support to the JCITS via validation and ingest of IOC.
• Author and/or support cyber threat products and briefings that illuminate threats and enhance awareness.
• Produce ARs from MIRs with analytic assessments in DCSA system of record.
• Author Shared Indicator Bulletins that adhere to IC standards and reveal emerging trends in FIE targeting, issues of strategic significance, and/or actionable information against FIE threats.
• Support analytic production on classified CI Cyber threat products that highlight emerging trends in FIE targeting, issues of strategic, and/or actionable information against FIE threats.
• Provide support to CI Cyber threat analysis briefs.
• Collaborate, coordinate, and engage with customers, stakeholders, and the CI cyber community to share threat information, promote integration, enhance awareness, and enable customer response.
• Support CI cyber engagements or working groups.
• Distribute DC3 MIRs to DCSA Field Personnel.
• Publish mission area related IIR evaluations/SDR for all finished CI cyber analytic products.
• Performs other job-related duties as assigned

Cyber Analyst - Junior Experience, Education, Skills, Abilities requested:

• Current TS/SCI security clearance
• Desired to have a minimum 3 years of experience related to the Cyber Analyst role with at least a portion of the experience within the last 2 years.
• Preferred to have a Bachelor's degree
  • An additional 4 years of experience for a total of 7 years of experience may be substituted for a Bachelor's degree.
• Must have an active Top Secret / SCI level security clearance.
• Working knowledge of the concepts involved in the specific functions outlined in the specified labor category description.
• Knowledgeable of and demonstrates ability to apply Intelligence Community (IC) and DoD classification guidelines and procedures.
• Able to work semi-independently with oversight and direction.
• Use logic when evaluating and synthesizing multiple sources of information.
• Demonstrates understanding of interpreting analysis to include, but not limited to, its meaning, importance, and implications.
• Ability to defend analytic judgements with sound, logical conclusions and adapt analytic judgments when presented with new information, evolving conditions, or unexpected developments.
• Produce timely, logical, and concise analytic reports, documents, assessments, studies, and briefing materials in formats including
• Microsoft Office tools (e.g. Excel, Word, PowerPoint, etc.), electronic/ soft copy matrices and/ or web-enabled formats.
• Demonstrates ability to communicate complex issues clearly in a concise and organized manner both verbally and non-verbally; with strong grammar skills.
• Proficiency using Microsoft Office tools.
• Ability to develop structured research including, but not limited to, obtaining, evaluating, organizing, and maintaining information within security and data protocols.
• Able to recognize nuances and resolve contradictions and inconsistencies in information.
• Working knowledge using complex analytic methodologies, such as structured analytic techniques or alternative approaches, to examine biases, assumptions, and theories to eliminate uncertainty, strengthen analytic arguments, and mitigate surprise.
• Structured analytic techniques include, but not limited to, Analysis of Competing Hypotheses, Devil's Advocacy, High-Impact/ Low-Impact Analysis, Red Team Analysis and Alternative Futures Analysis.
• Understanding of intelligence collection capabilities and limitations, to include but not limited to, technical sensors/ platforms and human intelligence sources related to the labor category.
• Demonstrates understanding of evaluating collected intelligence reporting, engaging with collection managers, and developing collection requirements.
• Must pass pre-employment qualifications of Cherokee Federal

Company Information:

Cherokee Insights (Insights) is a part of Cherokee Federal - the division of tribally owned federal contracting companies owned by Cherokee Nation Businesses. As a…