Job Description

WarCollar is seeking Digital Network Exploitation Analysts (DNEAs) of all skill levels for a variety of roles to support core Intelligence Community (IC) missions.

This opportunity has positions in Maryland and Hawaii!

As an Exploitation Analyst, you will:

• apply your deep understanding of adversary networks, network defenses, and cyber network operational capabilities to develop exploitation plans and make operational adjustments as plans are executed
• be part of a team, working together with government, military, and contractor personnel to develop shared understandings of intelligence needs, mission relevance, and areas of expertise.
• apply your innate curiosity and analytical talent to form hypotheses, critically assess and choose analysis techniques, then query, merge, enrich, evaluate, and pivot within data to attain and share insights.
• distill, document, contextualize and share your findings--including any new tradecraft that you develop--with teammates, stakeholders, and intelligence consumers.

Required Skills

Relevant experience must be in computer or information systems design/development/analysis. In addition, it may also include engineering hardware and/or software, programming, computer/network security, vulnerability analysis, penetration testing, computer forensics, information assurance, systems engineering, and/or network and systems administration.

In some cases, foreign language proficiency may also be used to satisfy experience requirements; recent Interagency language Roundtable (ILR) scores are required to substantiate your proficiency level.

Completion of military training in a relevant area such as JCAC (Joint Cyber Analysis Course) will be considered towards the relevant experience requirement (i.e., 24-week JCAC course will count as 6 months of experience)

Education:

Degree in Network Engineering, Systems Engineering, Information Technology, or related field (e.g., General Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Forensics, Cyber Security, Software Engineering, Information Assurance, or Computer Security). Note that 18 semester hours of military training/coursework in networking, computer science, or cyber topics is equivalent to an Associate degree.

Candidates must be United States citizens and hold an active Top Secret clearance with Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI), and have a positively adjudicated polygraph to be considered for this position.

Additional Details

Local travel up to 10% may be required.

Specific labor category determined by years of experience + educational degrees:

Level 1

2 years' applicable experience with a bachelor's degree, OR

4 years' applicable experience with associate degree

Level 2

2 years' applicable experience with a PhD, OR

3 years' applicable experience with a master's degree, OR

5 years' applicable experience with a bachelor's degree, OR

7 years' applicable experience with an associate degree

Level 3

4 years' applicable experience with a PhD, OR

6 years' applicable experience with a master's degree, OR

8 years' applicable experience with a bachelor's degree, OR

10 years' applicable experience with an associate degree

Level 4

7 years' applicable experience with a PhD, OR

9 years' applicable experience with a master's degree, OR

11 years' applicable experience with a bachelor's degree, OR

13 years' applicable experience with an associate degree

This position is contingent upon funding.