Cyber Forensic Analyst – Senior

Duties include, but are not restricted to:

• Assess new and evolving special communications applications/devices for cyber risks that are realized when such products are utilized in support of operations.
• Establish functional and technical specifications and standards, solve hardware and software interface problems, define input/output parameters, and ensure integration of the entire systems or subsystem.
• Work with other engineers, systems analysts, programmers, technicians, scientists and top-level managers in the design, testing and evaluation of systems or subsystem components.
• Work with Mission Department POC’s to schedule and coordinate maintenance missions.
• Establish and maintain baseline functional and technical specifications/standards for each (system) deployed.
• Track and research hardware and software problems and/or anomalies reported or identified by audit activities.
• Coordinate with other team members and ensure problem solution, appropriate risk reduction, and resolution activities.
• Test and evaluate hardware and software to determine efficiency, reliability, and compatibility with existing systems, and make purchase recommendations.
• Estimate software/hardware acquisition, testing, and delivery requirements to include a tentative cost and schedule for each.
• Research new technology and implement it or recommend its implementation.
• Provide frequent contact with customers, traceability within program documents, and the overall computing environment and architecture
• Plan, coordinate, and implement network security measures to protect data, software, and hardware. Recommend changes to improve systems and network configurations, and determine hardware or software requirements related to such changes.
• Confer with stakeholder about how to solve existing system problems.
• Gather data pertaining to customer needs, and use the information to identify, predict, interpret, and evaluate system and network requirements.

Required skills:

• Clearance – TS/SCI with an appropriate Polygraph
• Familiarity with the use of special communications systems, how they are utilized to support operations to include an understanding of the risks which need to be mitigated
• Experience assessing technologies and software to identify and determine the security and cyber issues/concerns.
• Exposure to computer network defense operations (proxy, firewall, IDS/IPS)
• Understanding of network communications using protocols and services as TCP/IP protocols, DNS, and DHCP
• Experience working with WiFi access points to include 802.lla/b/g/n Wireless technologies
• Holds a BA in CS or demonstrated experience with a minimum of 5 years in the field. Minimum 3 years’ experience examining any of the following media types: cell phones, hard drives, thumb drives, flash media, compact disks, etc.
• Experience with any of the standard commercial forensic tools including FTK, Paraben, Helix, llook, Xways, WireShark, FireEye
• Experience working with Windows based platforms.
• Experience working with computer software/hardware, associated peripherals, and telecommunications networks – Knowledge and familiarity with computer hardware and software, especially network security/monitoring applications and configuration.
• Critical Thinking – Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
• Complex Problem Solving – Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
• Systems Evaluation – Identifying measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct performance, relative to the goals of the system.
• Component Evaluation – Identifying measures or indicators of component operation, and the actions needed to identify or correlate component utility, relative to the communications profile of the intended operational environment.
• Coordination – Ability to adjust/coordinate work activities based on changing priorities in relation to others’ actions.
• Oral Comprehension – The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.
• Written Comprehension – The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
• Deductive Reasoning – The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
• Experience with the Macintosh Operating System
• Experience in mobile IT technologies
• Experience with Linux/Unix
• The successful applicant must be able to meet the customer vaccination requirement.

Desired skills:

• Programming experience with Java, C, C++, Perl, Python or Enscripts
• Applicant should have 2 years’ experience working in the IC
• One or more of the following Certifications:
  • Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE)
  • Microsoft Certified IT Professional (MCITP)
• Familiarity with RF communications technologies and protocols to include specific knowledge regarding potential vulnerabilities which could create a concern