Cyber Systems Analyst

Description

The Bison Group is seeking a Cyber Systems Analyst to join our team in Quantico, VA in support of a Maritime effort for (MAGIC) Marine Corps Intelligence Activity Analysis, Geospatial Imagery, and Counterintelligence Support Services program.

The candidate will provide direct support to MCIA to provide situational awareness and intelligence production and analysis for numerous AORs. Candidate will conduct analysis using intelligence and information from multiple sources to assess, interpret, forecast, and explain a range of national security issues and developments that are regional or functional in nature. Provides all-source analytic support to collections, operations, investigations, and other defense intelligence analytic requirements.

• Provide portfolio specific analysis, expertise, and intelligence production as specified below.
• Assess the cybersecurity posture of a USMC defense program, ensuring the program is evolving with the best cybersecurity practices, prioritizing cyber threats based on factual cyber analysis.
• Analyze foreign capabilities to detect, disrupt, and deny USMC emissions and signals throughout the cyber kill chain, to include, but not limited to emissions from targeting, communications, and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) assets, reversible and non-reversible attacks.
• Identify, monitor, and assess advancements in emerging and commercial technologies that could be employed by state and non-state actors to detect, disrupt, and deny USMC acquisition programs’ network infrastructure.
• Identify significant risk characteristics of the environment such as classification of network, baseline activity, architecture, operating system, services, connectivity and bandwidth.
• Identify the limits of the network to be collected against.
• Establish limits of the supporting or connected networks that may need to be collected against.
• Evaluate existing databases and identify intelligence gaps.
• Use open source to gather Publicly Available Information (PAI).
• Explore the physical battlespace; how could the environment affect tactical operation.
• Analyze other characteristics of the battlespace such as security, auditing procedures, and backup systems.
• Evaluate the adversary on physical location of all assets, architecture and automation skills, security and policies, baseline activity, peculiarities and vulnerabilities, capabilities, and conclusions that address: Rules of Engagement (ROE) for Information Assurance (IA), Computer Network Defense (CND) and Computer Network Attack (CNA).
• Determine adversary’s Courses of Action (COA). Identify the adversary’s likely objectives and desired end state. Identify the full set of COA’s available to the adversary, at a minimum the most likely and most dangerous should be developed. Develop COA’s based on enemy perception of friendly information architecture (reverse cyber IPB). Evaluate and prioritize each adversary COA. Refine COA’s as time and new information allow.
• Evaluate foreign Computer Network Defense (CND) and Computer Network Attack (CNA) capabilities, limitations, and vulnerabilities. Assess potential vulnerabilities of USMC tactical systems to CNA to include systems related to targeting, ISR, and navigation assets. Define the battlespace effects.
• Analyze the battlespace environment for information, services and networks, such as confidentiality, integrity, availability; and protect, detect, respond, restore and conduct reviews.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in an area related to the labor category from a college or university accredited by an agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.
•  At least 8 years of relevant experience with a portion of that experience being within the last 2 years. 
•  Customer is requesting a seasoned Intelligence Analyst preferably with multi-INT expertise, excellent research, writing, and briefing skills to customer senior leadership, as they pertain to an intelligence environment supporting critical operations.  
• TS/SCI clearance

Disclaimer: This position offers a wage or salary range based on market data and internal pay policies. This range is a good-faith estimate and may vary depending on qualifications, experience, and other factors. We do not request or use prior compensation history in making employment decisions. Any voluntary disclosure of prior wage information may be considered to support a higher offer, but will not be used to justify a lower offer.

The Bison Group offers benefit options including medical, dental, vision, life, disability insurance, and accrued PTO including vacation, sick leave and holidays.

The listed pay range serves as a general guideline rather than a guaranteed salary. Final compensation is determined by a variety of factors including, but not limited to, role-specific responsibilities; candidate qualifications such as education, skills, and mission-aligned experience; market data, business considerations, internal equity, and any applicable legal or bargaining agreements (if any).

Bison Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.