Red Team Analyst

Beyond SOF; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Beyond SOF is seeking a Red Team-focused professional to support education and training initiatives within DoD-related programs. The role includes providing expert guidance on policy, career development, and coordinating red team efforts across sensitive initiatives.

You will facilitate red teams using SATs, collaborate with planners and SMEs, and help publish practical guidance for red-teaming best practices while assisting in bid and proposal activities as needed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required; strong analytical thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication abilities; able to convey complex guidance clearly.
• Formal Red Team facilitator training or certification preferred.
• Prior DoD experience as a contractor, civilian, or military greatly valued.

Responsibilities

• Execute tasks and analyses related to Red Teaming military education and training initiatives.
• Support guidance development and oversight of education, training, and best practices.
• Provide SME advice for DoD guidance, policy, and career development.
• Facilitate red teams for DoD initiatives using structured analytic techniques (SATs).
• Collaborate with planners, action officers, and SMEs through red team life cycle.
• Analyze reviews and trends from sensitive initiatives to guide future red teaming effort levels.
• Evaluate SAT applicability to the red teaming process and publish practical guidance.
• Identify lessons learned with educators and leaders to teach and implement best practices.

Skills

Critical thinking

Communication skills

Red Team facilitator training

DoD experience

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Master’s Degree

Job description

Some responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Execute tasks and analyses related to Red Teaming military education and training initiatives.
• Support the organization’s objective to develop and implement guidance and provide oversight of education, training, and best practices.
• Provide subject matter expert advice for Department level guidance and policy, career development, and coordinating.
• Facilitate red teams for Department of Defense proposed sensitive strategic initiatives using appropriate structured analytic techniques (SATs).
• Collaborate with sensitive initiative planners/authors, action officers, and subject matter experts (SMEs) throughout a red team’s “life cycle”.
• When not actively involved in red teamwork, analyzes previous sensitive initiative reviews and assessments to discern issue patterns/trends, with an eye toward applying greater red team levels of effort against these patterns/trends going forward.
• Evaluate structured analytic techniques for applicability to the red teaming process.
• Publish “how to” guidance for techniques identified for use during red teaming events.
• Work with planners, action officers, educators, and leaders to identify lessons learned through red teaming to teach/implement best practices going forward.
• The duties of this position will also include the participation, possibly in both writing and review, in the bid and proposal process for Azimuth's continued work in government contracting. This participation will be on an as-needed and as-requested basis by personnel in the Business Development department, within corporate, and/or within the supervisory chain of this position. This position's inclusion in the bid and proposal process is vital to the understanding of duties, responsibilities, tools and function of the position and to proper conveyance for Azimuth's past performance.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree, preferably a major which fosters particularly strong critical thinking skills, e.g. philosophy, pre-law, data sciences, political science
• Prior DoD experience (uniformed military, government civilian, or contractor).
• Exceptional critical thinking/reasoning and communication skills
• Some level of formal training (preferably certification) as a Red Team facilitator (e.g. from TRADOC’s University of Foreign Studies and Cultural Studies or some other such program
• Active TS/SCI Clearance and willingness to submit to a CI polygraph

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior military operational and/or intelligence (analysis) experience.
• Past participation in DoD red teams and/or wargames – ideally at both the strategic and operational echelons.
• Master’s Degree.

Physical Requirements / Travel

• Must be able to work in an office environment at a desk and computer.
• May travel ~10% to conferences, program reviews, industry meetings, or other collaborative events. Most or all travel would be CONUS.