Computer Network Defense Analyst (CNDA) - Levels 1-4

About the role

$24

Responsibilities

• Use information collected from a variety sources (e.g., intrusion detection systems, firewalls, network traffic logs, and host system logs) to identify potential vulnerabilities, respond to cyber events that occur, and defend against events that might occur.
• Help develop mitigations to strengthen network defenses and protect against attacks on network infrastructure devices or systems.
• Support a wide range of data transport possibilities, such as traditional wired networks, wireless transport (including Wi-Fi and cellular), collaborative platforms such as video teleconferencing, and the hardware and software that enable it all.
• Advance your career as you develop increasing expertise in networking protocols and architectures, cloud security, Internet of Things protocols, and advanced network security.
• Be part of a team, working together with government, military, and contractor personnel to develop shared understandings of intelligence needs, mission relevance, and areas of expertise.
• Distill, document, contextualize and share your findings--including any new tradecraft that you develop--with teammates, stakeholders, and intelligence consumers.

Qualifications

• STEM degree in Network Engineering, Systems Engineering, Information Technology, or related field. Extended military cyber training courses may be counted toward degree requirement.
• Relevant experience must be in computer or information systems design/development, programming, information/cyber/network security, vulnerability analysis, penetration testing, computer forensics, information assurance, and/or systems engineering.
• Must also have experience in network or system administration.
• Specific labor category determined by years of experience + educational degrees and/or equivalencies.
• Documented foreign language proficiency may count toward experience requirements.
• Additional skill sets may be required based on customer-specific requirements
• Level 1: Doctoral degree with 2+ years of relevant experience, Master's degree with 2+ years of relevant experience, Bachelor's degree with 2+ years of relevant experience, Associates degree with 4+ years of experience.
• Level 2: Doctoral Degree with 2+ years of relevant experience, Master's degree with 3+ years of relevant experience, Bachelor's degree with 5+ years of relevant experience, Associates degree with 7+ years of experience.
• Level 3: Doctoral degree with 4+ years of relevant experience, Master's degree with 6+ years of relevant experience, Bachelor's degree with 8+ years of relevant experience, Associates degree with 10+ years of experience.
• Level 4: Doctoral degree with 7+ years of relevant experience, Master's degree with 9+ years of relevant experience, Bachelor's degree with 11+ years of relevant experience, Associates degree with 13+ years of experience.