Computer Network Defense (CND) Analyst Level 2

Responsibilities

• Use information collected from a variety of computer network defense resources (including, but not limited to, intrusion detection system alerts, firewall and network traffic logs, and host system logs) to identify, analyze, and report events that occur or might occur within their environment.          
• Read, interpret, write, modify, and execute computer-scripting languages (this is a basic requirement for analysts).
• Be a team player within the organization, whether working with government, military, or contractor personnel to generate shared understandings of IC intelligence needs, the mission's relevance, and area of expertise.
• Form hypotheses, critically assess and choose analysis techniques, then query, merge, enrich, evaluate and pivot within data to attain insights.
• Distill, document, contextualize and communicate their findings, including any new tradecraft developed to the appropriate teammates, stakeholders, and intelligence consumers.
• Train and advise government, military, and contractor personnel and encourage best analytic practices whenever possible.

Minimum Qualifications

• Associate’s degree and 7 years of relevant experience; Bachelor’s degree and 5 years of relevant experience; Master’s degree and 3 years of relevant experience; or Doctorate and 2 years of relevant experience 
• 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).
• 18 semester hours of military training/ coursework in networking, computer science, or cyber topics is equivalent to an Associate's degree (applicable to Level 1 - Level 4).           
• Relevant experience in computer or information systems design/development, programming, information/cyber/network security, vulnerability analysis, penetration testing, computer forensics, information assurance, and 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., 20-24 week courses will count as 6 months of experience, 10-14 weeks will count as 3 months of experience).