About Us:
PUNCH Cyber Analytics Group (PUNCH) is a Virginia-based, small business founded in 2012 operating as a cohesive team that incorporates the sum of our group’s diverse skills, talents, and resources toward our collective passion: advancing data analytics to impact cyber operations. PUNCH is a two-time Inc. Magazine ‘Best Workplaces’ awardee offering unique benefits and personal touches to provide a positive work-life experience for our team. PUNCH brings unique qualifications, resources, and past-performance that make us suitable to address the goals of our diverse customer-base. Further, we have past and current experience supporting cyber operations and cyber ML-based research, with well over 100 years of collective experience from our collaborative, multi-disciplinary team.
Responsibilities
- Strong Network Analysis Background: Hands-on experience analyzing PCAPs and network traffic to identify suspicious activity, potential misconfigurations, anomalous behavior, and other security or operational issues.
- Solid Networking Fundamentals: Strong understanding of TCP/IP, common network protocols, routing, switching, and how enterprise networks operate.
- Technical Team Leadership: Capable of leading a deployed team of network analysts, providing technical guidance, troubleshooting issues, and participating directly in analysis activities.
- Mission Staffing and Coordination: Able to select and organize personnel for multiple customer-directed missions, including coordinating travel and deployments with as little as one week’s notice.
- Customer-Facing Communication: Comfortable interacting with government customers, discussing technical findings, providing status updates, and delivering quarterly PowerPoint briefings.
- Organization and Deliverable Management: Able to track team activities, manage competing priorities, and prepare accurate monthly contract deliverables.
- Adaptability and Travel: Willing and able to deploy alongside the team, work in unfamiliar customer environments, and adjust to changing mission requirements.
- Additional Technical Skills (Nice to Have): Linux administration, network sensor deployment, network hardware installation, and data center experience.
- Relevant Operational Experience (Nice to Have): Prior experience with military Cyber Protection Teams (CPTs), defensive cyber operations, network assessments, or similar deployable technical teams.
- Relevant certs: Network+, Security+, CCNA
Skills Required
- Hands-on experience analyzing PCAPs and network traffic
- Strong understanding of TCP/IP, network protocols, routing, switching, and enterprise networks
- Ability to lead a deployed team of network analysts
- Ability to select and organize personnel for customer-directed missions
- Ability to coordinate travel and deployments on short notice
- Customer-facing technical communication skills
- Ability to deliver quarterly PowerPoint briefings
- Ability to track team activities and prepare monthly contract deliverables
- Willingness and ability to travel and deploy with the team
- Linux administration experience
- Network sensor deployment experience
- Network hardware installation experience
- Data center experience
- Experience with military Cyber Protection Teams, defensive cyber operations, network assessments, or similar deployable technical teams
- Network+, Security+, or CCNA certification
What We Do
Punch Cyber Corp is a company based out of 20319 Portsmouth Blvd, Ashburn, Virginia, United States.
