Computer Network Defense Analyst Level 4

Because You Deserve More Than Just a Job

As a Computer Network Defense Analyst (CNDA), you will:

• use information collected from a variety sources (e.g., intrusion detection systems, firewalls, network traffic logs, and host system logs) to identify potential vulnerabilities, respond to cyber events that occur, and defend against events that might occur.  
• help develop mitigations to strengthen network defenses and protect against attacks on network infrastructure devices or systems.
• your work may span the gamut of data transport possibilities, such as traditional wired networks, wireless transport (including Wi-Fi and cellular), collaborative platforms such as video teleconferencing, and the hardware and software that support it all.
• you can advance your career as you develop increasing expertise in networking protocols and architectures, cloud security, Internet of Things protocols, and advanced network security.
• 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.

You’ll Bring These Qualifications

• 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). Up to 18 semester hours of military training/coursework in networking, computer science, or cyber topics is equivalent to an Associate degree.

• Experience: Relevant experience must be in computer or information systems design/development, programming, information/cyber/network security, vulnerability analysis, penetration testing, computer forensics, information assurance, and/or systems engineering.  Additionally, must have experience in network or system administration.  If not credited toward education requirements, completion of military training in a relevant area such as JCAC (Joint Cyber Analysis Course), Undergraduate Cyber Training (UCT), Network Warfare Bridge Course (NWBC)/Intermediate Network Warfare Training (INWT), Cyber Defense Operations will be considered towards relevant experience requirement (i.e., 20- to 24-week courses will count as 6 months of experience; 10-14 weeks will count as 3 months of experience). 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. The total of all experience equivalencies is capped at half of the required years of experience.
• Fully cleared with FSPoly
• 11 years’ applicable experience with a bachelor’s degree, OR 13 years’ applicable experience with associate degree

Required-

• Ability to quickly become a subject matter expert on a designated advanced persistent threat group.

   

• Expertise in identifying malicious cyber activity utilizing a variety of sources, customer tools, and analytic methodologies.

   

• The ability to discover, understand, and characterize infrastructure and tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) utilized by cyber actors to conduct malicious cyber operations.

   

• Develop signatures to discover and track malicious cyber activity to include bespoke malware and other TTPs.

   

• Ability to identify and characterize victims of malicious cyber activity.

   

• Experience translating analysis into intelligence products and ability to perform technical and analytic review of intelligence reporting.

Desired-

• The ability to identify and triage malware and other malicious code in partnership and support of malware analysts on staff.

• Experience working with external and multi-national partners.

   

• Experience developing, modifying, and documenting Jupyter notebooks to enhance intrusion analysis tradecraft.

Pay Range: There are a host of factors that can influence final salary including, but not limited to, geographic location, Federal Government contract labor categories and contract wage rates, relevant prior work experi