Data Exploiter Jobs

This position is expected to be filled in Bethesda, MD. A qualified Data Exploiter reviews, manipulates, triages, and analyzes large datasets. Candidate is responsible for supporting operational and analytical requirements. Activities include detailed log analysis, network traffic monitoring, and vulnerability risk assessment. The individual will be expected to conduct assessments of software tools and systems to identify vulnerabilities, and work with internal and external technical stakeholders to identify solutions to enrich analysis. Able to follow the entire targeting life cycle by engaging in data exploitation of requirements collection, data analysis, summary and documentation, and actionable information dissemination.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provide recommendations for continuous improvement.
• Create a range of products that inform operations, drive targeting and collection, contribute to intelligence products, and support multiple customer needs.
• Work with a team to analyze existing software applications and tools, and recommend new technologies and methodologies to improve team performance.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with data scientists, engineers, developers, targeters, and analysts.
• Write and update technical documentation such as user manuals, system documentation, training materials, processes and procedures.
• Provide data exploitation support to the customer.
• Use a variety of tools and methods to extract information of foreign intelligence, counterintelligence and targeting value from digital data.
• Work alongside other team members to sustain and advance our organization’s capabilities.

Qualifications:

• Experience conducting network traffic analysis
• Experience with technical collection abilities
• Demonstrated knowledge of incident response, containment, and mitigation
• Ability to sift through large amounts of unstructured data for key data points (i.e., metadata and artifacts)
• Knowledge of common cyber-attack methods
• Experience with OS hardening using tools such as CIS-CAT
• Create new methodologies / algorithms for data analysis and correlation
• Prepare a range of tailored products that embody and explain findings
• Ability to working independently with minimal supervision
• Identify and document information that can fill critical gaps
• Demonstrated experience performing vulnerability identification, risk analysis, and remediation
• Experience with Linux operating systems
• Create entity / object profiles and derived data sets that enable future opportunities and analytical efforts
• Strong understanding of VPNs, VLANs, and TCP/IP
• Ability to evaluate worldwide security events to assess system impact and/or risk (e.g., zero day exploits, hardware failures, and/or cyber-attacks)
• Experience with navigating an enterprise security accreditation process
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or other related discipline, or equivalent combination of education, technical certifications, training, and work/military experience.
• Demonstrated experience conducting detailed log analysis and system monitoring to understand system status, detect system breaches, and identify other system anomalies
• Demonstrated experience and understanding of network monitoring tools (e.g., Splunk, WSUS, Snare, Wireshark, and Solarwinds)
• Ability to triage, review, identify, and correlate items of interest from numerous all source datasets