Senior Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst

Peraton; Warrenton (VA); On-site; USD 86,000 - 138,000; Full time

Job summary

Peraton is seeking to hire a Senior Cyber Threat Analyst for its Federal Strategic Cyber division, located in Warrenton, VA. The role focuses on researching threat trends, producing threat intelligence products, and coordinating with government partners to enhance situational awareness.

The candidate must have strong cyber threat analytics experience and be able to obtain a Public Trust clearance, with travel 10-25%. The position requires U.S.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 8+ years of relevant experience.
• Demonstrated work experience in Cyber Threat Analytics.
• Experience in Cyber Intelligence requiring, at minimum, a moderate technical acumen.
• U.S. citizenship required.
• Ability to obtain a Public Trust clearance is required.
• Willing and able to travel from 10-25% of the time.

Responsibilities

• Research and analyze open source and classified reporting to identify current and emerging threat trends and work with cyber community and Intelligence Community partners to produce and offer threat intelligence products and briefings to internal and external partners and stakeholders.
• Document and report current and emerging threats that will exploit vulnerabilities of Department of Homeland Security stakeholders and to the Government.
• Communicate, coordinate, share information, and work closely with customer components.
• Document Indicators of Compromises and behaviors of new or high‑impact tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs), used to infiltrate networks, systems, and assets.
• Develop informational and analytic products daily designed to increase situational awareness and advanced warning of current and emerging cybersecurity threats and risks.
• Report on underlying patterns of behavior by conducting detailed analysis of incidents, threats and risks and associated impacts and consequences, vulnerabilities, tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTP), and other malicious and non‑malicious indicators.
• Develop operational‑level trends analysis products that leverage customer internal data repositories, classified and unclassified open‑source reporting to provide situational awareness of emerging cyber threat and risk trends to customer partners, stakeholders, and customers.
• Provide operational analysis coordination, research, and reporting support to the customer during internal cyber incident management exercises as well as national‑level cyber exercises.
• Identify and leverage new threat‑based frameworks and methodologies for analyzing adversaries’ activities based on network and system vulnerabilities, adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs), (e.g., scanning, unsuccessful attempts, malware, phishing campaigns, privilege escalation, user and root‑level intrusions, lateral movement, and data exfiltration).
• Enrich information within the Threat Indicator/Information Database to provide additional context to partial information sources and give additional information about specific IP addresses, DNS lookups and perform queries of other DHS systems or information repositories to pull additional information.
• Respond to requests for analysis and searches for corroborating, clarifying, or enhancing information or intelligence related to cyber threat activity.
• Evaluate reports of cyber threat activity by leveraging either the internally developed Threat Scoring Methodology (TSM) or the National Security Concern Score (NSCS).
• Produce weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual performance metrics reports.

Skills

Cyber Threat Analytics

Cyber Intelligence

Public Trust clearance eligibility

Travel 10-25%

Education

Bachelor's degree + 8 years

Master’s degree + 5 years

PhD + 3 years

Job description

Peraton is seeking to hire a Senior Cyber Threat Analyst for its Federal Strategic Cyber division, located in Warrenton, VA. The role focuses on researching threat trends, producing threat intelligence products, and coordinating with government partners to enhance situational awareness.

The candidate must have strong cyber threat analytics experience and be able to obtain a Public Trust clearance, with travel 10-25%. The position requires U.S.