Digital Network Exploitation Analyst (DNEA) - Levels 1-4

About the role

As a Digital Network Exploitation Analyst (DNEA) within Accolade’s Next Generation Analysts portfolio, you will support mission-focused teams operating on the front lines of national cyber operations. In this role, your work will directly contribute to protecting national security, enabling mission success, and helping the Intelligence Community stay ahead of rapidly evolving cyber threats and sophisticated adversaries. Accolade is hiring across multiple experience levels for a range of roles supporting critical Intelligence Community missions. The Next Generation Analysts portfolio supports a diverse customer set across the Intelligence Community and the broader national cyber operations enterprise. This range of mission partners gives analysts the opportunity to apply their expertise across a wide variety of technical challenges, operational environments, and mission priorities.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate target opportunities using all source data to understand and map target networks, and to assist in developing detailed exploitation and operations plans.
• Analyze SIGINT and cybersecurity data at multiple levels up and down the OSI network stack and bring a solid understanding of logical/physical IP core infrastructure, communication devices and how they connect to networks, and the traffic movements in a network.
• Develop new tradecraft needed to perform this analysis as technologies evolve.
• Work 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

• Relevant experience must be in computer or information systems design/development/analysis. In addition, it may also include engineering hardware and/or software, programming, computer/network security, vulnerability analysis, penetration testing, computer forensics, information assurance, systems engineering, and/or network and systems administration.
• Completion of military training in a relevant area such as JCAC (Joint Cyber Analysis Course) will be considered towards the relevant experience requirement (i.e., 24-week JCAC course will count as 6 months of experience).
• Level 1: 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