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Job description
Job Type: Full-Time
Clearance: TS/SCI and the ability to obtain/maintain a CI Poly as required
Must be a U.S. Citizen
Job Summary
Castalia Systems is seeking a Cyber Systems Analyst, Junior, to support our Intelligence Client's mission sets.
Roles and Responsibilities
A qualified candidate will perform the following duties and responsibilities, but are not limited to:
Assess the cybersecurity posture of a USMC defense program, ensuring the program is evolving with the best cybersecurity practices, prioritizing cyber threats based on factual cyber analysis.
Analyze foreign capabilities to detect, disrupt, and deny USMC emissions and signals throughout the cyber kill chain, to include, but not limited to emissions from targeting, communications, and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) assets, reversible and non-reversible attacks.
Identify, monitor, and assess advancements in emerging and commercial technologies that could be employed by state and non-state actors to detect, disrupt, and deny USMC acquisition programs' network infrastructure.
Identify significant risk characteristics of the environment such as classification of network, baseline activity, architecture, operating system, services, connectivity and bandwidth.
Identify the limits of the network to be collected against.
Establish limits of the supporting or connected networks that may need to be collected against.
Evaluate existing databases and identify intelligence gaps.
Use open source to gather Publicly Available Information (PAI).
Explore the physical battlespace; how could the environment affect tactical operations.
Define the battlespace effects.
Analyze the battlespace environment for information, services and networks, such as confidentiality, integrity, availability; and protect, detect, respond, restore and conduct reviews.
Analyze other characteristics of the battlespace such as security, auditing procedures, and backup systems. Evaluate the adversary on physical location of all assets, architecture and automation skills, security and policies, baseline activity, peculiarities and vulnerabilities, capabilities, and conclusions that address: Rules of Engagement (ROE) for Information Assurance (IA), Computer Network Defense (CND) and Computer Network Attack (CNA)
Determine adversary's Courses of Action (COA).
Identify the adversary's likely objectives and desired end state.
Identify the full set of COA's available to the adversary, at a minimum the most likely and most dangerous should be developed.
Develop COA's based on enemy perception of friendly information architecture (reverse cyber IPB).
Evaluate and prioritize each adversary COA.
Continue to refine COA's as time and new information allow.
Evaluate foreign Computer Network Defense (CND) and Computer Network Attack (CNA) capabilities, limitations, and vulnerabilities.
Assess potential vulnerabilities of USMC tactical systems to CNA to include systems related to targeting, ISR, and navigation assets.
Required Qualifications
Minimum 3 years of experience conducting analysis relevant to the specific labor category, with at least a portion of the experience within the last 2 years.
Bachelor's degree in an area related to the labor category from a college or university accredited by an agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. An additional 4 years of experience in the specific labor category, for a total of 7 years of experience in lieu of degree.
Physical Requirements/Work Environment
Normal office environment.
During high-tempo operations, maintain situational awareness and relay intelligence in real time.
Travel
Not required.
Company Description
At Castalia Systems, we provide you with opportunities and choices and support your total well-being. Our benefits include: Medical, dental, vision coverage, 401k matching, generous PTO, paid holidays, professional training opportunities, and even pet insurance to ensure your furry friends are cared for too. All regularly scheduled employees working at least 30 hours per week are eligible to participate in Castalia Systems' benefit programs. Individuals that do not meet the threshold are only eligible for select offerings, not inclusive of health benefits.
Salary at Castalia Systems is determined by various factors, including but not limited to location, position knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience, as well as contract-specific affordability and organizational requirements. The projected compensation range for this position is $80,000.00 to $85,000.00 (annualized USD). The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position and is just one component of Castalia Systems' total compensation package for employees.
Disclaimer
Castalia Systems is an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action employer and strives to comply with all applicable laws prohibiting discrimination based on race, color, creed, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, or ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, marital status, HIV-positive status, as well as any other category protected by federal, state, or local laws. All such discrimination is unlawful, and all persons involved in the operations of the company are prohibited from engaging in this type of conduct.
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