Listing Description
Duties
There are a variety of Cybersecurity Threat Analysis opportunities across the Department, including supporting several specialized programs at the DHS Office of Strategy, Policy, and Plans (PLCY), Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), DHS Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO), and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
As a DHS Cybersecurity Service employee in the Developmental Career Track, you will continually and proactively participate in learning activities to enhance and apply your developing expertise in the technical capability of Cybersecurity Threat Analysis to perform a range of routine tasks, which may include:
- Collecting, processing, analyzing, and disseminating cyber warning assessments.
- Applying knowledge of cybersecurity threats to determine possible consequences to DHS and draft or recommend mitigation strategies.
- Performing code analysis, traffic analysis, web log analysis, and pattern analysis to determine possible trends, patterns, and suspicious activity on networks.
- Tracking technical network and host-based attack vectors, malicious actors, emerging cyber threats, new vulnerabilities, and current trends to prepare and present cyber threat intelligence briefings to DHS leadership.
- Actively participating in Departmental, Component, or Federal working groups, task forces, and committees to develop, share or otherwise contextualize cyber indicators or information, recommending countermeasure or mitigation strategies for perceived threats.
- Applying Intelligence Community (IC) standards to analyze all-source intelligence on current and emerging cyber threats and sharing this analyses with DHS customers and partners.
- Producing routine intelligence assessments and cyber warning assessments to identify and evaluate emerging threats.
- Monitoring DHS or Component architectures, networks, communications, applications, and systems by mining open source and classified data sources.
- Actively working with Cyber Incident Response teams and cyber experts to implement identification and protection measures against state sponsored threats, sharing intelligence and analysis.
- Performing routine scanning and probing activities to analyze and interpret all-source intelligence on current and emerging cyber threats using intelligence community analytical standards.
Requirements
Conditions of Employment
- You must be a U.S. Citizen or national.
- You must be 18 years of age.
- Must be registered for the Selective Service (if you are a male).
- Must be able to obtain and maintain a security clearance. Security clearance levels may vary.
- Must be able to submit to a drug test and receive a negative result.
- Must be able to comply with ethics and standards of conduct requirements, including completing any applicable financial disclosure.
- May be required to serve a 3 year probationary period.
- While many of these positions are considered telework eligible, some individuals must live within 2 hrs driving distance to a DHS SCIF in either Chandler, AZ; Stennis, MS; Idaho Falls, ID; Arlington, VA; Pensacola, FL; Springfield, VA or D.C.
- Remote work may be available for some positions.
Qualifications
- Have 3+ years of cybersecurity work experience
- Can serve as a cybersecurity professional with some experience who applies still-burgeoning technical expertise to perform routine work with significant supervision and clear guidance.
- Collect, analyze, and report on cybersecurity threats and threat actors to support operations.
- Understand and analyze different sources of information (e.g., INTs, open source, law enforcement data) on specific topics or targets.
- Provide tactical/operational analysis, including attribution of cyber actors using a variety of analytic techniques and tools. May also provide strategic-level analysis to support broader mission.
- Develop and communicate situational awareness of local, regional, and international cybersecurity threats impacting stakeholder missions and interests.
DHS Cybersecurity Service employees start at career levels and salaries matching their experience and expertise. To learn more about DHS Cybersecurity Service career tracks and levels, visit our application portal.
This position is focused on Cybersecurity Threat Analysis.
DHS Cybersecurity Service jobs are structured cybersecurity specializations - called technical capabilities. To learn more about technical capabilities, visit our application portal.
Education
Degrees are not required for jobs in the DHS Cybersecurity Service, but DHS is interested in your level of education and the topics you studied. As you submit initial application information, you will be asked questions about your education.
Listing Details
- Salary: $80000 - $105000
- Citizenship: Not Provided
- Incentives: Not Provided
- Education: Not Provided
- Travel: Not Provided
- Telework: Not Provided