Cyber Systems Analyst - Junior

Global Dimensions is a HUBZone, service disabled, veteran-owned small business based in Fredericksburg, VA. We are a dynamic, expanding company with exciting opportunities in language/culture, training/education/instruction, IT, cyber security, and intelligence (analysts, CI, HUMINT, SIGINT, etc.). Global Dimensions is currently seeking a Junior Cyber Systems Analyst for a position in Quantico, Virginia.

Junior Cyber Systems Analyst will:

• Evaluate the cybersecurity stance of a USMC defense program, ensuring it adapts to leading cybersecurity practices and prioritizes cyber threats based on comprehensive cyber analysis.
• Examine foreign capabilities to detect, disrupt, and block USMC emissions and signals across the entire cyber kill chain, including, but not limited to, emissions from targeting, communications, and ISR (Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance) systems, as well as reversible and non-reversible attacks.
• Monitor and assess advancements in emerging and commercial technologies that state and non-state actors could leverage to detect, disrupt, or compromise USMC acquisition programs’ network infrastructure.
• Identify critical risk factors within the environment, such as network classification, baseline activity, system architecture, operating systems, services, connectivity, and bandwidth.
• Determine the boundaries of the network for potential collection activities.
• Define the limits of connected or supporting networks that may require collection efforts.
• Evaluate existing databases to identify intelligence gaps.
• Utilize open-source information to collect Publicly Available Information (PAI).
• Investigate the physical battlespace to understand how the environment could influence tactical operations.
• Characterize the effects of the battlespace.
• Analyze the battlespace environment in terms of information, services, and networks, focusing on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, and evaluating mechanisms to protect, detect, respond, restore, and conduct reviews.
• Examine additional characteristics of the battlespace, such as security measures, auditing procedures, and backup systems. Assess the adversary's physical location of assets, architecture, automation capabilities, security policies, baseline activity, vulnerabilities, and conclusions related to Rules of Engagement (ROE) for Information Assurance (IA), Computer Network Defense (CND), and Computer Network Attack (CNA).
• Identify potential Courses of Action (COA) for the adversary.
• Determine the adversary’s likely objectives and desired outcomes.
• Identify all possible COAs available to the adversary, with an emphasis on the most likely and most dangerous options.
• Develop COAs based on the adversary's perspective of friendly information architecture (reverse cyber IPB).
• Evaluate and prioritize each adversary’s COA.
• Continuously refine COAs as new information becomes available over time.
• Assess foreign Computer Network Defense (CND) and Computer Network Attack (CNA) capabilities, limitations, and vulnerabilities.
• Evaluate potential vulnerabilities in USMC tactical systems to CNA, including systems associated with targeting, ISR, and navigation.
• Provide portfolio-specific analysis, expertise, and intelligence production as outlined below.
• Conduct Threat Steering Groups with participants from USMC Combat Development & Integration to identify key factors and significant risk drivers for potential material solutions that may influence lifecycle cost, performance, schedule, and other acquisition decisions.
• Produce and deliver Validated Online Lifecycle Threat Reports (VOLTs), Critical Intelligence Parameters (CIPs), and Capability Development Threat Summaries to support Marine Corps Acquisition Programs throughout the Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System (JCIDS) process, assisting the Defense Acquisition System.

Requirements

• TS/SCI Security Clearance
• Desired Experience: At least 3 years of experience conducting analysis relevant to the labor category, with at least some of the experience within the last 2 years.
• Desired Education: Bachelor’s degree in a field related to the labor category from an accredited college or university recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. Alternatively, an additional 4 years of experience in the specific labor category, totaling 7 years, may substitute for a Bachelor’s degree.
• Demonstrates a working knowledge of the concepts involved in the specific functions outlined in the labor category description.
• Knowledgeable of and demonstrates the ability to apply IC and DoD classification guidelines and procedures.
• Demonstrates the ability to work semi-independently with oversight and direction.
• Demonstrates the ability to apply logic when evaluating and synthesizing multiple sources of information. Shows understanding of interpreting analysis, including its meaning, significance, and implications. Demonstrates the ability to defend analytic judgments with sound, logical conclusions, and to adapt these judgments when new information, changing conditions, or unexpected developments arise.
• Demonstrates the ability to produce timely, logical, and concise analytic reports, documents, assessments, studies, and briefing materials in various formats, including Microsoft Office tools (e.g., Excel, Word, PowerPoint), electronic/soft copy matrices, and/or web-enabled formats.
• Demonstrates the ability to clearly communicate complex issues in a concise and organized manner, both verbally and non-verbally, with strong grammar skills. Demonstrates proficiency with Microsoft Office tools.
• Demonstrates the ability to develop structured research, including but not limited to obtaining, evaluating, organizing, and maintaining information within security and data protocols.
• Demonstrates the ability to recognize nuances and resolve contradictions and inconsistencies in information.
• Demonstrates working knowledge of complex analytic methodologies, such as structured analytic techniques or alternative approaches, to examine biases, assumptions, and theories, reducing uncertainty, strengthening analytic arguments, and mitigating surprise. Structured analytic techniques include, but are not limited to, Analysis of Competing Hypotheses, Devil’s Advocacy, High-Impact / Low-Impact Analysis, Red Team Analysis, and Alternative Futures Analysis.
• Demonstrates understanding of intelligence collection capabilities and limitations, including but not limited to technical sensors/platforms and human intelligence sources relevant to the labor category.
• Demonstrates understanding of evaluating collected intelligence reporting, engaging with collection managers, and developing collection requirements.

Global Dimensions does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, color, religion, age, national origin, marital status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other reason prohibited by law in provision of employment opportunities and benefits. Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled.