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Job DescriptionData Analyst Sr Advisor
Deliver insights to help our clients turn data into action as a Data Analyst Sr Advisor at GDIT. Your work will provide transformative solutions to our clients’ big-data obstacles and help advance the mission. Here, you can make a meaningful impact on our clients’ mission and on your career.
At GDIT, people are our differentiator. As a Data Analyst Sr Advisor you will help ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. Our work depends on Data Analyst Sr Advisor joining our team who reviews, manipulates, triages, and analyzes large datasets. Candidate is responsible for supporting operational and analytical requirements. Activities include detailed log analysis, network traffic monitoring, and vulnerability risk assessment. The individual will be expected to conduct assessments of software tools and systems to identify vulnerabilities, and work with internal and external technical stakeholders to identify solutions to enrich analysis. Able to follow the entire targeting life cycle by engaging in data exploitation of requirements collection, data analysis, summary and documentation, and actionable information dissemination. Able to identify, triage and exploit data collections.
HOW A DATA ANALYST SR ADVISOR WILL MAKE AN IMPACT
Provide data exploitation support to the customer.
Assist with attribution efforts related to cyber activity.
Use a variety of tools and methods to extract information of foreign intelligence, counterintelligence and targeting value from digital data.
Create a range of products that inform operations, drive targeting and collection, contribute to intelligence products, and support multiple customer needs.
Work with a team to analyze existing software applications and tools,and recommend new technologies and methodologies to improve team performance.
Write and update technical documentation such as user manuals, system documentation, training materials, processes and procedures.
Collaborate cross-functionally with data scientists, engineers, developers, targeters, and analysts.
Provide recommendations for continuous improvement.
Work alongside other team members to sustain and advance our organization’s capabilities.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or other related discipline, or equivalent combination of education, technical certifications, training, and work/military experience.
Experience conducting network traffic analysis.
Prepare a range of tailored products that embody and explain findings
Ability to sift through large amounts of unstructured data for key data points (i.e., metadata and artifacts).
Demonstrated knowledge of incident response, containment, and mitigation
Knowledge of common cyber-attack methods.
Demonstrated experience conducting detailed log analysis and system monitoring to understand system status, detect system breaches, and identify other system anomalies.
Demonstrated experience performing vulnerability identification, risk analysis, and remediation.
Ability to triage, review, identify, and correlate items of interest from numerous all source datasets.
Ability to evaluate worldwide security events to assess system impact and/or risk (e.g., zero day exploits, hardware failures, and/or cyber-attacks).
Ability to identify and document information that can fill critical gaps.
Create new methodologies / algorithms for data analysis and correlation.
Create entity / object profiles and derived data sets that enable future opportunities and analytical efforts.
Experience with technical collection abilities.
Security Clearance Level TS/SCI with Poly
Location: On Customer Site
DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
Experience with scripting to exploit large data sets
Strong understanding of VPNs, VLANs, and TCP/IP.
Experience with Linux operating systems.
Experience with OS hardening using tools such as CIS-CAT.
Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
Experience with navigating an enterprise security accreditation process.
Demonstrated experience and understanding of network monitoring tools (e.g Splunk, WSUS, Snare, Wireshark, and Solarwinds).
Technical targeting experience.
Russian Language skills or demonstrated knowledge of the EE AOR
GDIT IS YOUR PLACE:
401K with company match
Comprehensive health and wellness packages
Internal mobility team dedicated to helping you own your career
Professional growth opportunities including paid education and certifications
Cutting-edge technology you can learn from
Rest and recharge with paid vacation and holidays