The Mission Concepts and Capabilities (MCC) Division of Applied Research Associates, Inc (ARA) has an immediate opening to support a team conducting cyber assessments of vulnerabilities of critical U.S. and Allied systems, networks, infrastructures, and assets. Our team supports the Defense Threat Reduction Agency's Nuclear Enterprise Support Directorate (NE)'s Mission Assurance Department (MA) program. We are seeking a hands-on cyber analyst and team leader with an understanding of both the compliance standards and the tools and techniques to assess vulnerabilities. Assessment teams identify risks that may lead to mission loss or degradation and provide recommendations for risk reduction based on DoD Mission Assurance Assessment benchmarks. ARA teams identify threats to information technology and operational technology and assess the vulnerability and risk to assets. Selected candidates will apply in-depth knowledge of cyber threats to develop recommendations to remediate system vulnerabilities. The successful candidate will also serve as the ARA team leader, working closely with ARA management, Government personnel, and subcontractor teammates. ARA's assessment teams provide a balanced look at the mission survivability of key DoD facilities and provide recommendations with supporting rationale to leadership. Teams also perform assessments from an adversarial viewpoint to identify weaknesses, test and evaluate protection strategies, and demonstrate exploitation of identified vulnerabilities. Components of these assessments include, but are not limited to, examining telecommunications (e.g., video, voice and data, commercial and military) and cyber space operations (e.g., computer networks, IA tools use, operations security). Cyber assessment teams may be deployed to high-threat but permissive environments anywhere in the world. Each team can support up to 10 assessments per year that range from one to six weeks in duration, from start to submission of final assessment report. This position is contingent upon security clearance and cyber security verification.