Senior Cyber Warfare Threat Analyst 23-0043

Job Title: Senior Cyber Warfare Threat Analyst

Location: Alexandria - VA

Position Requirements: Active Department of Defense (DOD) Top Secret / SCI Clearance Counterintelligence Polygraph

About Us:

Threat Intelligence Analyst to serve as a subject matter expert supporting Net-centric Warfare and cyber projects for the Test & Evaluation Threat Resource Activity (TETRA) in support of the Office of the Director, Operational Test & Evaluation (DOT&E).

TETRA's core mission is to inform DOT&E of intelligence defining current and emerging future threats to DOD weapons and systems to facilitate realistic, operationally relevant test and evaluation prior to fielding in the warfare environment.

DOT&E's mission is to determine a system's operational effectiveness, suitability, and survivability - supporting every Soldier, Sailor, Airmen, Marine, and Guardian, along with the strategists and decision makers in the chain of command. DOT&E serves as the independent, unbiased assessors of American warfighting capability.

Job Duties/Responsibilities:

• Conduct intelligence analysis to produce response products that answer DOT&E information requirements
• Provide subject matter expertise, intelligence, and analytical support to DOT&E Air, Land and Expeditionary, Naval, Net-Centric, Space, and Missile Defense Warfare Deputies and Action Officers
• Review and provide expert input into critical T&E and intelligence documents including Initial Capabilities Documents, Capabilities Development Documents, Capabilities Production Documents, T&E Master Plans, Test Plans, Defense Intelligence Threat Library Modules, Validated Online Lifecycle Threat reports, and T&E memorandums
• Define test concept and test equipment threat requirements for testing operation of U. S. weapon systems in the presence of current and emerging threats
• Evaluate proposed Cyber Warfare threat scenarios to inform threat realism for evaluating operational effectiveness, suitability, and survivability of military systems
• Determine cyber threat resource requirements, availability, adequacy, and define gap between cyber threat emulation capability and the actual threat
• Perform as part of a local or distributed team to develop intelligence briefings and analytic products to define operational threat environments
• Liaison between the intelligence, acquisition, requirements and T&E communities
• Provide oversight, leadership, technical support and guidance of threat M&S used to support various T&E implementations including support for allied partner nations
• Provides administrative and logistical preparation/planning and support for DOT&E T&E resources and infrastructure investment portfolios
• Liaison between DOT&E warfare areas and North Atlantic Treaty Organization personnel
• Responsible for working independently and taking broad Government leadership guidance and direction to develop and maintain an overall performance roadmap

Required Qualifications:

• Minimum of a Bachelor's degree and eight (8) years' relevant work-related experience
• Core defense intelligence all-source analysis experience working with Intelligence Production Centers and using intelligence tools/data sources to solve complex problems
• Excellent ability to research, analyze, document, and convey technical information
• Familiarity with intelligence tools including Defense Intelligence Threat Library, Validated Online Lifecycle Threat reports, Community On-Line Intelligence System for End Users and Managers, Intelligence Production Center "Request for Information" process, Intelligence Community databases, Intelligence Mission Data (IMD), Lifecycle Mission Data Plans, and Critical Intelligence Parameters
• Excellent verbal, writing, and briefing skills with the ability to communicate both technical and operational information to wide-ranging audiences.
• Strong Net-Centric/cyber operations background with a deep understanding of current foreign threats
• Demonstrated knowledge of current cyber threat actors/intrusion techniques and cyber threat avenues of attack

Desired Skills:

• Ability to develop comprehensive threat analyses across the Net-Centric/cyber domain with a special emphasis on threat cyber capabilities
• Cyber security/penetration testing experience
• Cyber lab testing experience
• Engineering background (i.e., education credentials and/or work experience)
• Self-starter capable of working in a fast-paced high-pressure team environment
• High degree of attention to detail with strong organizational skills
• Highly developed research and analytical skills
• Functional knowledge of the T&E community to include familiarity with operational/developmental testing and threat exploitation agencies
• Validation, verification, and accreditation process experience
• Understanding of Defense Acquisition and the linkage between DOT&E activities and the acquisition process
• Pentagon and/or Office of the Secretary of Defense-level experience

Vali Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer.