Junior Cyber Analyst

Cherokee Federal; Quantico (VA); On-site; USD 80,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) match

Paid time off

Health insurance

Life insurance

Job summary

Cherokee Insights, part of Cherokee Federal, is seeking a Junior Cyber Analyst in Quantico, VA. The role requires US citizenship and an active Top Secret/SCI clearance.

You will provide junior-level cyber analysis to identify, assess, and disrupt threats to cleared industries and DOD. Starting salary ranges from $80,000 to $90,000 with benefits that include a 401(k) match, PTO, health/dental/vision insurance, and professional development opportunities.

Qualifications

• Must be a US Citizen.
• Active Top Secret/SCI clearance required.
• Ability to produce timely, logical analytic reports and briefing materials.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate USG responses to adversary action and insider threats.
• Develop cyber capabilities and processes to illuminate threats.
• Collaborate with customers and CI cyber community to share threat information.

Skills

US Citizenship

Top Secret/SCI

Analytic reporting

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Prepared Date:10/1/2026

A government contract requires that this position be restricted to U.S. citizens or legal permanent residents. You must provide documentation that you are a U.S. citizen or legal permanent resident to qualify.

This position requires an active Top Secret/SCI clearance.

Position Summary:

Cherokee Insights is seeking a Cyber Analyst to provide junior-level cyber analysis to identify, assess, and disrupt threats to cleared industry, cleared personnel, DOD, and Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA).

Starting Salary Range for Cyber Analyst - Junior:$80,000 – $90,000

Benefits That Set Us Apart

When considering your next opportunity, compensation is only part of the picture. We offer a benefits package designed to invest in your future and support your life outside of work.

Highlights include:

• Up to a 6% 401(k) company match to help you build long-term financial security
• Paid time off as part of our comprehensive benefits package, so you have the flexibility to rest, recharge, and enjoy what matters most
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, plus prescription drug coverage
• Basic life and AD&D insurance, with supplemental life options
• Short-term and long-term disability coverage
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA) and Health Savings Account (HSA) options
• Professional development, training, and certification support
• Voluntary benefits including accident, critical illness, and identity theft protection

Because taking care of our employees isn’t just a promise, it’s part of who we are.

Benefits are subject to change and eligibility requirements apply.

Essential Functions, Duties & Responsibilities:

• Facilitate USG responses to adversary action and insider threats by sharing threat indicators and enabling responsive measures from other agencies and services.
• Develop cyber capabilities and processes that illuminate threats, enhance awareness, and enable customer response.
• Operationalize an enterprise security risk management methodology across Government and industry stakeholders.
• Provide CI Cyber analytic support to the JCITS via validation and ingest of IOC.
• Author and/or support cyber threat products and briefings that illuminate threats and enhance awareness.
• Produce ARs from MIRs with analytic assessments in DCSA system of record.
• Author Shared Indicator Bulletins that adhere to IC standards and reveal emerging trends in FIE targeting, issues of strategic significance, and/or actionable information against FIE threats.
• Support analytic production on classified CI Cyber threat products that highlight emerging trends FIE targeting, issues of strategic, and/or actionable information against FIE threats.
• Provide support to CI Cyber threat analysis briefs.
• Collaborate, coordinate, and engage with customers, stakeholders, and the CI cyber community to share threat information, promote integration, enhance awareness, and enable customer response.
• Support CI cyber engagements or working groups.
• Distribute DC3 MIRs to DCSA Field Personnel.
• Publish mission area related IIR evaluations/SDR for all finished CI cyber analytic products.
• Performs other job-related duties as assigned
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned.

Basic Qualifications:

• An additional 4 years of experience for a total of 7 years of experience may be substituted for a Bachelor's degree.
• Working knowledge of the concepts involved in the specific functions outlined in the specified labor category description.
• Knowledgeable of and demonstrates ability to apply Intelligence Community (IC) and DoD classification guidelines and procedures.
• Able to work semi-independently with oversight and direction.
• Use logic when evaluating and synthesizing multiple sources of information.
• Demonstrates understanding of interpreting analysis to include, but not limited to, its meaning, importance, and implications.
• Ability to defend analytic judgements with sound, logical conclusions and adapt analytic judgments when presented with new information, evolving conditions, or unexpected developments.
• Produce timely, logical, and concise analytic reports, documents, assessments, studies, and briefing materials in formats including
• Microsoft Office tools (e.g. Excel, Word, PowerPoint, etc.), electronic/ soft copy matrices and/ or web-enabled formats.
• Demonstrates ability to communicate complex issues clearly in a concise and organized manner both verbally and non-verbally; with strong grammar skills.
• Ability to develop structured research including, but not limited to, obtaining, evaluating, organizing, and maintaining information within security and data protocols.
• Able to recognize nuances and resolve contradictions and inconsistencies in information.
• Working knowledge using complex analytic methodologies, such as structured analytic techniques or alternative approaches, to examine biases, assumptions, and theories to eliminate uncertainty, strengthen analytic arguments, and mitigate surprise.
• Structured analytic techniques include, but not limited to, Analysis of Competing Hypotheses, Devil's Advocacy, High-Impact/ Low-Impact Analysis, Red Team Analysis and Alternative Futures Analysis.
• Understanding of intelligence collection capabilities and limitations, to include but not limited to, technical sensors/ platforms and human intelligence sources related to the labor category.
• Demonstrates understanding of evaluating collected intelligence reporting, engaging with collection managers, and developing collection requirements.
• Must be a US Citizen.
• This position requires an active Top Secret/SCI clearance.
• Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer; may occasionally require standing or moving about the office for extended periods.
• Must pass pre-employment qualifications of Cherokee Federal.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Desired to have a minimum 3 years of experience related to the Cyber Analyst role with at least a portion of the experience within the last 2 years.
• Preferred to have a Bachelor's degree

Work is performed primarily in a climate-controlled environment.

Company Information:

Behind every government mission stands skilled, mission-driven talent: people whose expertise and dedication turn complex challenges into successful outcomes. Cherokee Insights, part of Cherokee Federal, the federal contracting division of Cherokee Nation Businesses, is that team. We modernize aging systems, deliver care where it’s needed most, and keep missions supplied, staffed, and moving across defense, intelligence, and civilian agencies. For more than 60 federal clients, we take on the work others won’t, and deliver where it counts. If that’s the kind of work you’re looking for, you’ve found your team. Learn more at cherokee-federal.com.

Cherokee Federal is a military friendly employer. Veterans and active military transitioning to civilian status are encouraged to apply.

Legal Disclaimer:All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to protected veteran status, disability or any other status protected under applicable federal, state or local law.

Many of our job openings require access to government buildings or military installations. Candidates must pass pre-employment qualifications of Cherokee Federal.

Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Statement

Cherokee Federal is a federal contractor subject to the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA). As required by VEVRAA, we take affirmative action to employ and advance in employment qualified protected veterans. Protected veterans are encouraged to self-identify during the application process.

Cherokee Federal takes affirmative action to employ and advance in employment qualified individuals with disabilities in compliance with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act. Qualified individuals with disabilities are encouraged to self-identify during the application process.

Reasonable accommodations are available to qualified individuals with disabilities or those with sincerely held religious beliefs. To request an accommodation in the application or interview process, please contact Human Resources at [e-mail].

Job Info

• Job Identification 43894
• Job Category Security, Surveillance and Enforcement
• Posting Date 10/01/2026, 07:58 PM
• Job Schedule Full time
• Locations Quantico, VA, United States (On-site)