Digital Network Exploitation Analyst, Senior

Booz Allen Hamilton•Fort Meade, MD

2d•$99,000 - $225,000

About The Position

As a Digital Network Exploitation Analyst on our team, you will provide expert analytic support while working alongside the mission owners to tackle complex and challenging problems in computer network analysis, network exploitation, digital network intelligence, dataflow, access development, and target network analysis. Your duties will require you to leverage an understanding of ports, protocols, networking devices, and common exploitation frameworks. This will provide an opportunity to grow your expertise, develop new skills and tradecraft, use and share your methodologies and tool experience with other analysts, and most importantly, be a part of a team conducting offensive cyberspace operations that are crucial to national security.

Requirements

10+ years of experience with network exploitation or signals intelligence analysis
Experience recognizing technical and operational gaps and identifying appropriate collection, analysis, or testing activities to reduce associated unknowns
Experience analyzing Active Directory, Kerberos, LDAP, SMB, DNS, HTTP/S, VPN, or cloud
Experience developing, adapting, or improving DNEA methodologies, exploitation workflows, technical tradecraft, or analytic processes, and mentoring and developing DNEAs and improving the technical and analytical capabilities of an operational team
Knowledge of network protocols, authentication mechanisms, encryption, operating systems, enterprise network architectures, virtualization, and common security technologies
Ability to lead complex DNEA efforts from initial mission requirement through target analysis, exploitation development and support, operational execution, and transition of results to appropriate mission stakeholders
Ability to evaluate exploitation opportunities based on technical feasibility, mission relevance, operational risk, and likelihood of success
Ability to communicate complex network findings, exploitation concepts, technical assessments, risks, and recommendations to senior government and military leadership in concise, decision-relevant terms
TS/SCI clearance with a polygraph
HS diploma or GED

Nice To Haves

Experience with network exploitation, vulnerability analysis, penetration testing, red teaming, adversary emulation, or authorized offensive cyber operations
Experience supporting joint cyber operations or comparable cyber mission organizations
Experience operating in highly collaborative environments involving intelligence analysts, cyber operators, planners, engineers, vulnerability researchers, and mission leadership
Experience serving as the primary DNEA expert for an operational team, mission, target set, or customer
Experience developing or maintaining technical exploitation capabilities, methodologies, or tradecraft used across multiple missions or target environments
Experience identifying opportunities to automate repetitive technical analysis or exploitation activities
Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical field
Network+, Security+, CEH, OSCP, OSCE, CCNA, GIAC, or comparable technical certification

Responsibilities

Provide expert analytic support while working alongside mission owners to tackle complex and challenging problems in computer network analysis, network exploitation, digital network intelligence, dataflow, access development, and target network analysis.
Leverage an understanding of ports, protocols, networking devices, and common exploitation frameworks.
Grow expertise, develop new skills and tradecraft, and use and share methodologies and tool experience with other analysts.
Conduct offensive cyberspace operations that are crucial to national security.
Recognize technical and operational gaps and identify appropriate collection, analysis, or testing activities to reduce associated unknowns.
Analyze Active Directory, Kerberos, LDAP, SMB, DNS, HTTP/S, VPN, or cloud.
Develop, adapt, or improve DNEA methodologies, exploitation workflows, technical tradecraft, or analytic processes.
Mentor and develop DNEAs and improve the technical and analytical capabilities of an operational team.
Lead complex DNEA efforts from initial mission requirement through target analysis, exploitation development and support, operational execution, and transition of results to appropriate mission stakeholders.
Evaluate exploitation opportunities based on technical feasibility, mission relevance, operational risk, and likelihood of success.
Communicate complex network findings, exploitation concepts, technical assessments, risks, and recommendations to senior government and military leadership in concise, decision-relevant terms.