Exploitation Analyst 4

Aperio Global•Fort Meade, MD

5d•$200,000 - $243,000

About The Position

Aperio Global is seeking Exploitation Analysts to support its team in Fort Meade, Maryland. The role conducts in-depth exploitation and analysis of information from various sources to support intelligence gathering and help clients make informed decisions. Analysts use their understanding of adversary networks, network defenses, and cyber network operational capabilities to develop exploitation plans and adjust operations as plans are executed. They collaborate with teammates to establish shared understandings of intelligence needs, mission relevance, and areas of expertise; analyze and enrich data to develop insights; and document and share findings, including newly developed tradecraft, with teammates, stakeholders, and intelligence consumers. A current TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph is required.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Network Engineering, Systems Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field. Listed examples include General Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Forensics, Cyber Security, Software Engineering, Information Assurance, and Computer Security.
Relevant experience in computer or information systems design, development, or analysis. Relevant experience may also include hardware or software engineering, programming, computer or network security, vulnerability analysis, penetration testing, computer forensics, information assurance, systems engineering, or network and systems administration.
Level 4 requires eleven or more years of experience.
Current TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph.
Eighteen semester hours of military training or coursework in networking, computer science, or cyber topics may be equivalent to an associate degree.
Completion of relevant military training, such as JCAC, may count toward relevant experience; a 24-week JCAC course counts as six months of experience.

Responsibilities

Use knowledge of adversary networks, network defenses, and cyber network operational capabilities to develop exploitation plans and make operational adjustments during execution.
Collaborate with a team to develop shared understandings of intelligence needs, mission relevance, and areas of expertise.
Form hypotheses; select analysis techniques; query, merge, enrich, evaluate, and pivot within data to develop and share insights.
Distill, document, contextualize, and share findings, including newly developed tradecraft, with teammates, stakeholders, and intelligence consumers.