Cyber Red Team Analyst

4 weeks ago


Fort Belvoir, Virginia, United States Amentum Full time
Job Title: Red Team Cyber Analyst

At Amentum, we are seeking a highly skilled Red Team Cyber Analyst to join our team. As a Red Team Cyber Analyst, you will play a critical role in providing strategic and tactical analytic support to the DoD Red Team.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Characterize the adversary's cyber capabilities by researching the structure, ideology, intentions, tactics, and capabilities of adversarial cyber organizations.
  • Contribute constructively to cyber threat emulation by identifying information requirements, developing assessment cyber strategies, and assisting Red Team Program Leader collection plans.
  • Identify, map, and plan potential exploitation for key telecommunications networks.
  • Analyze and characterize cyber systems and conduct analysis appropriate to the program.
  • Develop courses of action that a cyber adversary might employ against customer personnel, equipment, facilities, networks, information, and information systems.
  • Facilitate timely information management flow from DoD Red Team partner elements and other entities supporting DoD Red Team operations.
  • Support field assessments from a cyber adversary perspective.
  • Synthesize findings to support vulnerability identification, course of action development, protection studies, trend analyses, risk analysis, and mitigation strategies.
Requirements:
  • DOD Level II IAT Certification or higher Certification demonstrating certified knowledge of Information Security Principles as it relates to administration of DoD networks and the cyber domain.
  • Ability to communicate complex information, concepts, or ideas in a confident and well-organized manner through verbal, written, and visual means.
  • Ability to accurately and completely source all data used in products.
  • Ability to clearly articulate information requirements into well-formulated research questions.
  • Ability to develop or recommend analytic approaches or solutions to problems and situations for which information is incomplete or for which no precedent exists.
  • Ability to evaluate, analyze, and synthesize large quantities of data (which may be fragmented and contradictory) into high-quality products.
  • Ability to focus research efforts to meet the customers' decision-making needs.
  • Ability to function effectively in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
  • Ability to function in a collaborative environment, seeking continuous consultation with other analysts and experts both internal and external to the organization to leverage analytical and technical expertise.
  • Ability to identify information gaps.
  • Ability to recognize and mitigate cognitive biases which may affect analysis.
  • Ability to think critically.
  • Ability to think like and emulate actions of threat actors.
Desired Skills:
  • Knowledge of common computer/network infections (virus, Trojan, etc.) and methods of infection (ports, attachments, etc.).
  • Knowledge of computer networking fundamentals (, basic computer components of a network, types of networks, etc.).
  • Knowledge of concepts, terminology, and operations of a wide range of communications media (computer and telephone networks, satellite, fiber, wireless).
  • Knowledge of cyber operations terminology/lexicon.
  • Knowledge of data communications terminology (, networking protocols, Ethernet, IP, encryption, optical devices, removable media).
  • Knowledge of how to extract, analyze, and use metadata.
  • Knowledge of intelligence disciplines.
  • Knowledge of intelligence preparation of the environment and similar processes.
  • Knowledge of intelligence support to planning, execution, and assessment.
  • Knowledge of internal tactics to anticipate and/or emulate threat capabilities and actions.
  • Knowledge of Internet network addressing (IP addresses, classless inter-domain routing, TCP/UDP port numbering).
  • Knowledge of malware.
  • Knowledge of operations security.
  • Knowledge of organizational hierarchy and cyber decision-making processes.
  • Knowledge of physical and logical network devices and infrastructure to include hubs, switches, routers, firewalls, etc.
  • Knowledge of telecommunications fundamentals.
  • Knowledge of the basic structure, architecture, and design of modern communication networks.
  • Knowledge of the basics of network security (, encryption, firewalls, authentication, honey pots, perimeter protection).
  • Knowledge of the common networking and routing protocols ( TCP/IP), services (, web, mail, DNS), and how they interact to provide network communications.
  • Knowledge of the ways in which targets or threats use the Internet.
  • Knowledge of threat and/or target systems.
  • Knowledge of virtualization products (VMware, Virtual PC).
  • Knowledge of what constitutes a threat to a network.
  • Understand and be well-versed in common cyber threat terminology, vulnerability and penetration test principles and methodologies; possess basic knowledge of cyber incident and response forensics and related current events.
  • Familiarity with Log Analysis, Packet Analysis OSI Model, Network Architectures, NIST, DIA-CAP, RMF, and Information Operations, threat intelligence activities including the collection of and tracking threat actors, digital forensics incident response; and threat hunting methodologies.
  • Experience performing attack analysis or Red Team penetration testing against operational computer networks including experience in Windows Security, Network Security, Linux/Unix Security, Database security, or Mainframe Security.

Amentum is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our hiring practices provide equal opportunity for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, gender, national origin, age, United States military veteran's status, ancestry, sexual orientation, marital status, family structure, medical condition including genetic characteristics or information, veteran status, or mental or physical disability so long as the essential functions of the job can be performed with or without reasonable accommodation, or any other protected category under federal, state, or local law.



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