Senior Cyber Functional Analyst: Mission-Driven Requirements

AMERICAN SYSTEMS

Fort Meade (MD)

On-site

USD 170,000 - 190,000

Full time

10 days ago

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Job summary

AMERICAN SYSTEMS is seeking a Senior Cyber Functional Analyst to support MARFORCYBER at Fort Meade, MD. You will analyze mission, operational, cybersecurity, and technical requirements to enable cyberspace operations and protect Marine Corps networks.

The role involves coordinating with mission owners, cybersecurity professionals, engineers, and program stakeholders; translating needs into system and cybersecurity requirements; and delivering concise briefings to leadership.

Qualifications

15 years of relevant experience in systems engineering, requirements analysis, functional analysis, business or mission-process analysis, and/or support to complex information technology or cybersecurity systems.
Demonstrated experience eliciting, analyzing, decomposing, documenting, validating, and tracing operational, functional, technical, system, and cybersecurity requirements through the system development life cycle.
Experience assessing complex systems, processes, interfaces, dependencies, and information flows and developing practical recommendations that improve efficiency, security, resilience, and mission performance.
CLEARANCE: Active Top Secret security clearance with a Polygraph completed within the last 6 years.
Excellent written and verbal communication, facilitation, documentation, and organizational skills.
Strong analytical mindset with effective critical-thinking, problem-solving, requirements-reconciliation, and decision-support skills.
Demonstrated ability to prepare and deliver concise briefings to executives and program Integrated Product Team leadership.
High proficiency with Microsoft Office applications, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and SharePoint.
Ability to collaborate effectively with mission owners, cyber operators, cybersecurity professionals, engineers, program managers, and other Government and contractor stakeholders in a classified environment.
Current DoD 8140-aligned cybersecurity workforce certifications or legacy DoD 8570 Information Assurance Management or Information Assurance Technical certification is a plus.

Responsibilities

Perform research and collect, organize, validate, and analyze data from cybersecurity studies, operational assessments, technical reviews, performance measures, and other approved sources; compile findings and prepare inputs to larger reports and decision products.
Assess the factors, components, interfaces, dependencies, and security considerations of complex cyber and information systems to identify capability gaps, operational risks, and opportunities to improve mission effectiveness, resilience, and efficiency.
Plan and conduct studies of cyber mission processes and work procedures, including organizational change, communication, command and control, information flow, integrated operating methods, resource utilization, and cost considerations.
Examine current and contemplated cyberspace operations, information systems, and supporting processes to develop, coordinate, and validate user, mission, functional, technical, and cybersecurity requirements.
Gather information from users, operators, cybersecurity personnel, engineers, and other stakeholders; define operational or technical problems and develop system, process, and procedural approaches to resolve them.
Coordinate requirements and analytical products across program integrated product teams, mission partners, technical teams, and leadership forums; brief executives and program-level leadership on findings, risks, dependencies, recommendations, and required decisions.
Maintain controlled requirements, documentation, status information, and collaboration products using Microsoft Office applications and SharePoint, applying disciplined version control and configuration-management practices.
Manage the functional-analysis activity and associated staff when assigned, including workload planning, task delegation, product review, stakeholder coordination, and quality control.