Senior Epidemiology & Biosurveillance Analyst

Amentum company; Honolulu (HI); Hybrid; USD 165,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Educational reimbursement

Parental leave

Paid time off

Job summary

Amentum seeks an Epidemiology Operations Senior Analyst to serve on the PACOM Command Surgeon’s DST, acting as senior expert for infectious-disease surveillance and epidemiological risk.

The role leads wastewater-based surveillance, integrates public health, biosurveillance, and open-source data with military partners, and reports to the DST/J07 structure. Hybrid work from Camp Smith and local Hawaii locations is required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in epidemiology, public health, biostatistics, health science, or a closely related discipline.
• Must have an active Secret security clearance. Note: US Citizenship is required to obtain a Secret Clearance.
• 7+ years of progressively responsible experience in epidemiology, public health surveillance, disease monitoring, outbreak analysis, or a related field.
• Experience independently analyzing complex surveillance data and translating findings into actionable recommendations.
• Knowledge of epidemiological design, surveillance methods, statistical concepts, disease-activity measures, data quality, and uncertainty.
• Familiarity with military planning and ability to work with military planners, intelligence professionals, technical teams, and decision-makers.
• Strong writing, consultation, coordination, and senior-leader briefing skills.
• Active Top-Secret security clearance, with SCI eligibility later during employment.
• DoW, Combatant Command, public-health agency, or infectious-disease surveillance experience.
• Knowledge of microbiology, pathophysiology, syndromic surveillance, and emerging diseases.
• Indo-Pacific experience and familiarity with AI-enabled tools, Maven Smart System, or biosurveillance platforms.

Responsibilities

• Analyze epidemiological, public-health, wastewater, biosurveillance, operational, open-source, and classified information to identify trends, anomalies, clusters, and emerging threats.
• Lead wastewater-surveillance baseline, indicator, trend, and anomaly-threshold development with laboratory, public-health, and CBRNE specialists.
• Assess the significance, reliability, limitations, uncertainty, and operational implications of epidemiological findings.
• Provide findings to the Operations Planner for integration with medical intelligence, CBRNE analysis, Force Health Protection, and operational plans.
• Monitor emerging infectious diseases and public-health threats across the US PACOM AOR using DoW, interagency, state, foreign-government, and partner data.
• Support epidemiological investigations and assessments in coordination with authorized DoW medical and public-health personnel.
• Coordinate with J07, subordinate commands, theater public-health organizations, overseas laboratories, intelligence analysts, military planners, and external partners.
• Test the Biosurveillance Information Platform and provide epidemiology-specific findings for Military Utility Assessments and recommendations.
• Translate surveillance needs into requirements for technical teams developing feeds, dashboards, alerts, and workflows; coding is not required.
• Develop surveillance protocols, data-quality standards, analytic methods, reports, white papers, and capability-improvement recommendations.

Skills

Epidemiology expertise

Interagency coordination

Public health surveillance

Written & briefing skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in epidemiology, public health, biostatistics, health science

Master's degree in Public Health

Job description

Amentum seeks an Epidemiology Operations Senior Analyst to serve on the PACOM Command Surgeon’s DST, acting as senior expert for infectious-disease surveillance and epidemiological risk.

The role leads wastewater-based surveillance, integrates public health, biosurveillance, and open-source data with military partners, and reports to the DST/J07 structure. Hybrid work from Camp Smith and local Hawaii locations is required.