Target Digital Network Analyst (TDNA), Advisor

Peraton•Fort Meade, MD

About The Position

Peraton’s Cyber Mission supplies the Intel community with mission essential Next Generation SIGINT Analysts and Cyber professionals that support and defend our nation’s security. Be part of a team of SIGINT, Intelligence and Cyber professionals that are supplying our nation with leading Next Generation cybersecurity solutions. We deliver unique intelligence, analytics, and data management solutions to address the world’s most difficult challenges. We are seeking Next Generation Target Digital Network Analysts (TDNA4) to support our mission to defend and protect our national security.

Requirements

15 years’ experience without a degree OR 13 years’ experience with an associate degree OR 11 years’ experience with a bachelor’s degree OR 9 years’ experience with a master’s degree OR 7 years' experience with a PhD
Relevant experience must be in conducting cyber intelligence analysis, next generation analysis, digital network analysis, or SIGINT analysis to include target development, social network analysis, metadata analysis, knowledge of customer tool sets and databases
Foreign language proficiency and Defense Language Proficiency Test (DLPT) scores may be considered as relevant experience.
Completion of military training in a relevant area such as JCAC (Joint Cyber Analysis Course) may be considered towards the relevant experience requirement (i.e., 24-week JCAC course may count as 6 months of experience) or may be considered equivalent to a technical associates degree.
Active TS/SCI security clearance with a current polygraph is required

Nice To Haves

Ability to analyze and produce intelligence information through adding, updating, or enhancing information in mission relevant databases
Ability to conduct target research and analysis and analysis of metadata
Ability to identify target communications within the global network
Ability to create and maintain documentation of analysis, tradecraft, research, and knowledge
Ability to provide formal/informal analysis training in all forms including on-the-job training, creation of video training artifacts, and physical/virtual classroom training
Ability to work with others across analysis disciplines to produce the best possible results and follow oversight and compliance requirements

Responsibilities

Conduct advanced analysis of collection and open-source data to generate insights and leads
Ensure target continuity, profile targets and their activities, and develop techniques to gain additional target information
Maintain appropriate databases for targeting, tasking, and analysis
Identify intelligence gaps to tailor current collection or enable new collection to close the gaps
Employ multiple analysis disciplines such as pattern recognition against targets' communications, network usage and digital footprints
Apply your knowledge and understanding of IC needs and missions
Work as part of a team, 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