Cyber Intelligence Analyst  

Pennsylvania – Pittsburgh

Summary: The CMU/SEI Cyber Innovation Center (CIC) is a formative activity focused on matching state-of-the-art software research with critical U.S. Government (USG) and Industry needs.  The CIC is leading a collection of new initiatives for the SEI, and is seeking creative and hard-working members to join its team.  The Member of the Technical Staff of the CIC's Cyber Intelligence Pilot Team will be responsible for enabling the Intelligence Community and Industry to enhance cyber domain awareness, predict disruptions, as well as deter or defend against cyber anomalies and attacks. Key activities include exploring and using state of the art techniques and technologies to conduct analysis that fuses industry data, analyzing this data in context of "Off Net" sources, and reporting this fused analysis to CIC partners and consortium members.
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Robert S. Sinclair The candidate will coordinate closely with technical staff in the CIC, ASP and other SEI programs to deliver cyber intelligence technical expertise. The technical staff member will be able to participate in multi-discipline teams in support of the ASP vision and mission.
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Robert Sinclair

Duties include:  Conduct analysis of cyber domain data derived from multiple industry sources; fuse sourced data with contextual information to create situational awareness that will feed trend analysis; identify anomalies and trends, if present in data create analytical assessments of anomalies and trends, working with consortium members, CERT, CMU and outside experts as appropriate to determine meaning, and possible means of protection and/or response; report assessments in both alert and regularly scheduled formats to consortium members and others as relevant; interface directly and indirectly with USG sponsor and industry partners to identify, capture, and articulate critical cyber intelligence needs; help identify, shape, and guide collection, analysis, and reporting activities directed at filling critical industry and USG needs; leverage research ideas to design, document, and oversee the development of traditional and creative solutions relevant to critical industry and government needs.

Qualifications:

Bachelors of Science in Computer Science, Intelligence Analysis, Network Security, or related field with more than 8 years experience, Master's of Science in the same fields with more than 5 years experience, Doctorate in the same fields with more than 2 years of experience, or equivalent.

Professional experience listed above to include the following areas: Cyber domain analyst, preferably within company security teams, network operations centers, counter terrorism centers, or within the government in counter cyber threat environments; intelligence Community experience; awareness of sourcing, methodology of intelligence analysis, as well as intelligence tools; intelligence report creation, writing, publishing, dissemination, peer review; proven capabilities in data analytics.

Minimum Skills/Abilities Knowledge of and experience in: Traditional and non-traditional intelligence analysis report production; cyber threat analytics; cyber community, industry, and vulnerabilities; information assurance/survivability; data analytics; strong written and verbal communications skills and the ability to present to small and large audiences; intelligence community domain knowledge considered a plus.

Candidates must be able to pass a background investigation, obtain a DoD TS/SCI security clearance, and be a US citizen.

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