Cyber Security Analyst

J5 Consulting is a Maryland based company established in 2006 to provide computing and consulting services for government and commercial entities. Our services improve Information System networking performance and compliance and protect electronic assets from loss and compromise. We welcome your application to receive consideration for the following position.

Introduction
The Sponsor requires support related to providing technical analysis and support to cyber operations; which will entail expertise in analyzing and synthesizing collection to evaluate and extract relevant data, preparing written reports, providing briefings. The contractor should be knowledgeable of current cyber trends and be able to apply that knowledge to meet the Sponsor's dynamic technical requirements. The Sponsor also requires support to provide knowledge management support to further ongoing Sponsor initiatives which consists of organization, project management, development of technical materials, and coordination for focused web-based portals, websites and training.
 

Required Skills and Demonstrated Experience:  

• Demonstrated experience using social media platforms and an understanding of how these platforms operate, to include use of fraud detection techniques.
• Demonstrated experience in advanced cyber operations to include knowledge of internet protocols, IP addressing, and use of virtual machines and emulators.
• Demonstrated experience working to mitigate the impact of geolocation and fraud detection on operations.
• Demonstrated experience and detailed knowledge of Intelligence Community Directives (ICDs) related to cybersecurity, to include ICD 503.
• Demonstrated experience using critical thinking skills to innovate and resolve issues.
• Demonstrated experience securely working with and designing websites and an understanding of the risks and proper use of encryption technologies as well as commercial messaging applications.

Highly Desired Skills and Demonstrated Experience: 

• Demonstrated experience developing methods to harden Sponsor processes and procedures against security threats.
• Demonstrated experience working to execute Sponsor mission and working successfully and collaboratively with Sponsor elements and components.
• Demonstrated experience or knowledge of Sponsor documentation.
• Foreign language capability in Arabic, Swahili, French, Pashto, Russian, Turkish, or Somali.

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US Citizenship:

• This position requires US Citizenship. Verification of US Citizenship to meet federal government security requirements will be confirmed.

Security Clearance:

• The successful candidate must have an active U.S. Government Top Secret Security Clearance with a Full Scope Polygraph.
• Clearance Verification: This position requires successful verification of the stated security clearance to meet federal government customer requirements. You will be asked to provide clearance verification information prior to an offer of employment.

Travel: 

• This position is expected to be onsite. The position will be located within the Washington Metropolitan Area (WMA).   Local travel/POV will be on an as needed basis, within the local place of performance.