Mission Assurance Analyst

Agile Defense; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 135,000 - 145,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Life Insurance

Paid Time Off

Holiday Pay

Disability (short-term & long-term)

Retirement & Learning Opportunities

Job summary

Agile Defense is seeking a Mission Assurance Analyst to support an Insider Risk Program. This role involves analyzing insider risk, developing analytical products, and triaging potential threats within a cyber risk framework.

The position requires 7+ years of experience, a Top Secret clearance, and familiarity with OSINT/CYBINT and UAM tools. Remote work options are available, with competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits.

Qualifications

• Candidate has experience as a counterintelligence or intelligence analyst in an insider threat program.
• Experience supporting federal agencies or cleared environments.
• CI-related training or certifications (e.g., CISAC, CI/All-Source).

Responsibilities

• Threat Analysis & Fusion: review and analyze all-source intelligence to evaluate TTPs targeting Critical Infrastructure.
• Investigation & Operational Support: back insider risk investigations and inquiries; identify leads.
• Insider Risk Detection: integrate UAM/UBA and surface indicators of compromise.
• Supply chain/partner due diligence: vendor risk assessments for leadership audiences.
• Cyber due diligence: assess tech stacks, domains, IPs, and cyber risk.
• Briefings & Dissemination: author intelligence reports and advisories.

Skills

Insider threat analysis

OSINT/CYBINT analysis

Intelligence investigations

Threat intel reporting

Education

CCITP certification

Top Secret clearance

Tools

User Activity Monitoring (UAM)

Job description

About Agile Defense

At Agile Defense we know that action defines the outcome and new challenges require new solutions. That’s why we always look to the future and embrace change with an unmovable spirit and the courage to build for what comes next.

Our vision is to bring adaptive innovation to support our nation's most important missions through the seamless integration of advanced technologies, elite minds, and unparalleled agility—leveraging a foundation of speed, flexibility, and ingenuity to strengthen and protect our nation’s vital interests.

Requisition #: 1854

Job Title: Mission Assurance Analyst

Location: Remote

Job Description

The Mission Assurance Analyst supports an Insider Risk Program, performing insider risk analysis, analytical product development, supply assessment and triage of potential insider threat activity under the direction of Insider Risk Program Manager. Work within an established Cyber Insider Risk program to apply both the technical, intelligence and human dimensions of insider risk analysis while ensuring activities are conducted in accordance with applicable customer guidelines.

• The Mission Assurance Analyst will perform the following task: Threat Analysis & Fusion: Review, correlate, and analyze all-source intelligence (OSINT, CYBINT and closed commercial intelligence) to evaluate foreign intelligence or criminal capabilities, tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) targeting US Critical Infrastructure.
• Investigation & Operational Support: Provide direct analytical backing to Insider Risk investigations, operations, damage assessments, and intelligence inquiries; identify leads, anomalies.
• Insider Risk Detection: Collaborate, and provide technical expertise to insider risk analysts, integrating User Activity Monitoring (UAM) or User Behavior Analysis, perform retrospective analysis, travel disclosures, technical and behavioral indicators to surface indicators of compromise.
• Supply chain/partner due diligence: Third Party Organizational, Vendor Risk Assessment and vulnerability reports tailored for senior leaders.
• Perform cyber due diligence: Third-party risk intelligence, including technology stack, domains/sub/DNS/WHOIS/IPs, cyber supply chain, ransomware susceptibility, financial impact, compromised credentials, and high-risk asset findings.
• Briefings & Dissemination: Independently author intelligence reports, finished formal analytic products, FOCI threat advisories, and strategic assessments aligned industry best practices.

Years of Experience

• 7+ years

Preferred Skills

• Previous experience as a counterintelligence or intelligence analyst in an insider threat program, ideally in a federal or cleared environment where NITTF-aligned, Counterintelligence or FBI Insider Threat experience or equivalent standards applied.
• Experience supporting federal law enforcement, intelligence community, or national security missions with a focus on Critical Infrastructure Completion of accredited CI foundational training (e.g., CI Special Agent Course [CISAC], technically trained agent, Counterintelligence All-Source Analysis Course [CIASAC], or equivalent service/agency schooling).
• Certified Counter-Insider Threat Professional (CCITP) certification desired.
• Top Secret clearance.

$135,000 - $145,000 a year

In addition, Agile Defense invests in its employees beyond just compensation. Agile’s benefits offerings include, dependent upon position, Health Insurance, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, Holiday Pay, short-term and long-term Disability, Retirement and Learning and Development opportunities as well as other optional benefit elections.

Our Core Values

• Happy - Be Infectious. Happiness multiplies and creates a positive and connected environment where motivation and satisfaction have an outsized effect on everything we do.
• Helpful - Be Supportive. Being helpful is the foundation of teamwork, resulting in a supportive atmosphere where collaboration flourishes, and collective success is celebrated.
• Honest - Be Trustworthy. Honesty serves as our compass, ensuring transparent communication and ethical conduct, essential to who we are and the complex domains we support.
• Humble - Be Grounded. Success is not achieved alone, humility ensures a culture of mutual respect, encouraging open communication, and a willingness to learn from one another and take on any task.
• Hungry - Be Eager. Our hunger for excellence drives an insatiable appetite for innovation and continuous improvement, propelling us forward in the face of new and unprecedented challenges.
• Hustle - Be Driven. Hustle is reflected in our relentless work ethic, where we are each committed to going above and beyond to advance the mission and achieve success.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities