Cybersecurity Specialist

Job Summary

The National Security Agency (NSA) is seeking highly skilled Cybersecurity Specialists to join our team. As a Cybersecurity Specialist, you will be responsible for finding vulnerabilities, delivering analyses, and crafting mitigations to prevent and eradicate cyber threats to the Defense Industrial Base, critical infrastructures, and U.S. National Security Systems.

Responsibilities

• Apply technical expertise to provide computer network defense capabilities, continuous monitoring, technical analysis, situational awareness, and incident response for the highest classified capabilities, systems, and data in our Nation.
• Work in multiple organizations at NSA and are primarily responsible for finding vulnerabilities, delivering analyses, crafting mitigations, developing cybersecurity products, and educating our customers.
• Develop and implement cybersecurity solutions to protect NSA's information systems and networks assets.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Network Engineering, Systems Engineering, Information Technology, or related field.
• Relevant experience in computer or information systems design/development, programming, information/cyber/network security, vulnerability analysis, penetration testing, computer forensics, information assurance, systems engineering, network administration, or system administration.

Competencies

• Network analysis
• Network protocol analysis
• Network Signature development (Including Snort and Suricata signatures)
• Operating system administration (Windows and Unix/Linux)
• Network Security
• Incident response
• Computer and network forensics
• Network administration
• Vulnerability and malware analysis
• Software reverse engineering (including familiarly with tools like Ghidra, IDA Pro, etc.)
• Low level protocol and packet analysis
• Scripting and/or programming (examples include Python, C, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, SQL, Lua, etc.)

Pay, Benefits, & Work Schedule

Salary offers are based on candidates' education level and years of experience relevant to the position. The salary range is $129,239 - $187,662 (Senior). NSA offers excellent benefits, including relocation assistance, flexible work schedules, generous leave programs, paid personal fitness time, training and continuing education classes, health and life insurance, Federal Thrift Savings Plan (TSP), and a Federal retirement plan.