Cyber Functional Analyst - Senior

Overview

The Cyber Functional Analyst - Senior supports U.S. Marine Corps Forces Cyberspace Command (MARFORCYBER) at Fort Meade, Maryland, by analyzing mission, operational, cybersecurity, and technical requirements that enable cyberspace operations and the operation and defense of Marine Corps networks. This position works with mission owners, cybersecurity professionals, system engineers, operators, and program stakeholders to evaluate current and planned capabilities, define user needs, and translate operational objectives into clear, traceable system and cybersecurity requirements. The role performs research, data analysis, process assessment, documentation development, and requirements coordination across the system life cycle. Through structured analysis and senior-level briefing support, the Cyber Functional Analyst recommends improvements that strengthen mission effectiveness, security, resilience, information flow, and operational efficiency. The position may also be assigned responsibility for managing the function and associated staff.

Responsibilities

• Perform research and collect, organize, validate, and analyze data from cybersecurity studies, operational assessments, technical reviews, performance measures, and other approved sources; compile findings and prepare inputs to larger reports and decision products.
• Assess the factors, components, interfaces, dependencies, and security considerations of complex cyber and information systems to identify capability gaps, operational risks, and opportunities to improve mission effectiveness, resilience, and efficiency.
• Plan and conduct studies of cyber mission processes and work procedures, including organizational change, communication, command and control, information flow, integrated operating methods, resource utilization, and cost considerations.
• Examine current and contemplated cyberspace operations, information systems, and supporting processes to develop, define, coordinate, and validate user, mission, functional, technical, and cybersecurity requirements.
• Gather information from users, operators, cybersecurity personnel, engineers, and other stakeholders; define operational or technical problems and develop system, process, and procedural approaches to resolve them.
• Facilitate requirements-development activities, working sessions, technical exchanges, and stakeholder reviews to clarify needs, reconcile competing priorities, document decisions, and establish measurable acceptance criteria.
• Translate user and mission requirements into system specifications, functional requirements, use cases, requirements traceability products, configuration-management plans, life-cycle documentation, integrated logistics or sustainment support plans, and applicable cybersecurity documentation.
• Analyze proposed system, architecture, configuration, interface, data-flow, or process changes for operational and cybersecurity impacts; recommend modifications to sequences of operation, equipment utilization, controls, and supporting procedures.
• Support requirements verification and validation, alternatives analysis, gap analysis, risk assessment, test planning, implementation planning, and evaluation of whether delivered capabilities satisfy approved mission needs.
• Develop and maintain specifications, manuals, standard operating procedures, user documentation, analytical reports, decision papers, executive briefings, action trackers, and other program or technical documentation.
• Coordinate requirements and analytical products across program integrated product teams, mission partners, technical teams, and leadership forums; brief executives and program-level leadership on findings, risks, dependencies, recommendations, and required decisions.
• Maintain controlled requirements, documentation, status information, and collaboration products using Microsoft Office applications and SharePoint, applying disciplined version control and configuration-management practices.
• Recommend improvements to cyber mission processes, requirements-management practices, information sharing, documentation quality, and cross-functional coordination.
• Manage the functional-analysis activity and associated staff when assigned, including workload planning, task delegation, product review, stakeholder coordination, and quality control.

Qualifications

• 15 years of relevant experience in systems engineering, requirements analysis, functional analysis, business or mission-process analysis, and/or support to complex information technology or cybersecurity systems.
• Demonstrated experience eliciting, analyzing, decomposing, documenting, validating, and tracing operational, functional, technical, system, and cybersecurity requirements through the system development life cycle.
• Experience assessing complex system