Digital Network Exploitation Analyst (DNEA)

Aperio Global is seeking Digital Network Exploitation Analysts (DNEAs) to support our IC program in Fort Meade, Maryland. The DNEA role involves evaluating target opportunities, understanding and mapping target networks, and developing detailed exploitation and operations plans, using various sources of data. The role requires analyzing SIGINT and cybersecurity data at different OSI network levels and possessing knowledge of logical/physical IP core infrastructure, communication devices, and network traffic patterns. The candidate should actively contribute to the development of new tradecraft for analysis as technology evolves. Collaboration with a team to understand intelligence needs, mission relevance, and areas of expertise is essential. Additionally, the job involves using analytical skills and curiosity to form hypotheses, choose appropriate analysis techniques, and derive insights from data, which will be documented, contextualized, and shared with teammates, stakeholders, and intelligence consumers. 

Analyzes SIGINT and cybersecurity data at multiple levels up and down the OSI network stack and brings a solid understanding of logical/physical IP core infrastructure, communication devices, and how they connect to networks, as well as the traffic movements in a network. 

• Participates in developing new tradecraft needed to perform this analysis as technologies evolve. 

• Collaborates with a team to develop shared understandings of intelligence needs, mission relevance, and areas of expertise. 

• Applies innate curiosity and analytical talent to form hypotheses, critically assess and choose analysis techniques, then query, merge, enrich, evaluate, and pivot within data to attain and share insights. 

• Distills, documents, contextualizes, and shares findings—including any new tradecraft that you develop—with teammates, stakeholders, and intelligence consumers. 

Clearance 

Current TS/SCI with Polygraph required 

 Requirements 

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science 

• Level may vary based on years of relevant work experience: 

• Level 1: Two (2) or more years of experience 

• Level 2: Five (5) or more years of experience 

• Level 3: Eight (8) or more years of experience 

• Level 4: Eleven (11) or more years of experience 

• Combination of experience and education may be considered. 

• Information Technology (IT) and Information Security (IS) degrees may be considered relevant if the programs contain the amount and type of coursework equivalent to a Computer Science (CS) major. 

• Certifications preferred: Sec+, Net+, CEH 

 Must have experience in computer or information systems design/development/analysis roles, which may include: 

• Engineering hardware and/or software 

• Programming 

• Computer/network security 

• Vulnerability analysis 

• Penetration testing 

• Computer forensics 

• Information assurance 

• Systems engineering 

• Network and systems administration 

• Completion of military training in a relevant area such as JCAC (Joint Cyber Analysis Course) may be considered toward the relevant experience requirement (e.g., a 24-week JCAC course may count as 6 months of experience). 

 Anticipated Annual Salary Range: 

• DNEA 1:  $105K – $117K  

• DNEA 2: $130k – $147K  

• DNEA 3: $160K – $180K  

• DNEA 4: $200K – $248k