Target Digital Network Analyst (TDNA) with TS SCI + Poly

Aperio Global; Fort Meade (FL); On-site; USD 74,000 - 243,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

401k

Life Insurance

Paid Time Off

Disability

Professional Development

Job summary

Aperio Global is seeking Target Digital Network Analysts (TDNAs) to support our IC program in Fort Meade, Maryland, with SIGINT analysis and expertise. You will collaborate with a team to develop shared understandings of intelligence needs, mission relevance, and areas of expertise.

You will apply curiosity to form hypotheses and choose analysis techniques to attain insights. You will distill and share findings, including new tradecraft, with teammates, stakeholders, and intelligence consumers.

Qualifications

• Experience with software applications and databases for network analysis and target development.
• Ability to run DNI/DNR queries to answer questions using customer tools.
• Capable of evaluating leads for tasking and using proper tasking authorities.

Responsibilities

• Analyze collection and open-source data to generate insights and leads.
• Maintain databases for targeting, tasking, and analysis.
• Develop baseline profiles of designated target sets.
• Identify intelligence gaps to tailor or enable new collection.
• Apply multiple analysis disciplines to assess targets and their digital footprints.
• Share findings with teammates and stakeholders.

Skills

Network analysis

Target development

DNI/DNR queries

Data evaluation

Mentoring analysts

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Active TS/SCI with Polygraph

Tools

Databases

Job description

How We’re Different

We believe the highest-impact work in national security and technology is a team sport. At Aperio Global, we operate as a single, cohesive force aligned on a handful of mission-critical efforts where our work truly moves the needle. We don’t chase small wins. We solve for next.

We view the intersection of cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and data analytics as an empirical discipline as rigorous and consequential as any field in science or engineering. That means we bring intellectual honesty, accountability, and transparency to every problem we take on. Our team includes tech innovators, Intelligence Community veterans, and security professionals who know that the best solutions come from diverse minds working toward a common mission. We value our people, those working quietly behind the scenes, doing the hard work that keeps our nation secure.

The best way to understand how we think is to see what we’ve built. From full-spectrum cyber operations and de-biased AI platforms to quantum networking and cloud-native software systems, our work speaks for itself.

Come solve with us

We offer competitive compensation and a comprehensive benefits package — including medical, dental, and vision coverage, a 401(k) retirement plan, life insurance, generous paid time off, short and long-term disability, professional development, and much more. We invest in our people because they are our most important asset — and because the mission demands the best.

Aperio Global is seeking Target Digital Network Analysts (TDNAs) to support our IC program in Fort Meade, Maryland with SIGINT analysis and expertise. You will collaborate with a team to develop shared understandings of intelligence needs, mission relevance, and areas of expertise. You will apply innate curiosity and analytical talent to form hypotheses, critically assess and choose analysis techniques, then query, merge, enrich, evaluate, and pivot within data to attain and share insights. You will distill, document, contextualize, and share findings—including any new tradecraft that you develop—with teammates, stakeholders, and intelligence consumers.

Responsibilities:

• Conducts analysis of collection and open-source data to generate insights and leads
• Ensure target continuity, profile targets and their activities, and develop techniques to gain more target information.
• Maintains appropriate databases for targeting, tasking, and analysis
• Develop comprehensive baseline profiles of designated target sets
• Identify intelligence gaps to either tailor current collection or enable new collection to close the gaps
• Employ multiple analysis disciplines such as pattern recognition against targets’ communications, network usage and digital footprints
• Apply knowledge and understanding of IC needs and missions, as well as the targets’ culture, behaviors, and communications technologies
• Mentors other analysts on the tools and methodologies used to conduct TDNA.

Relevant TDNA Experience:

• Prior demonstrated experience in the use of software applications and databases associated with network analysis and target development.
• Capable of running basic DNI and DNR queries to answer specific questions with existing customer tools.
• Can task own selectors with assistance of senior analysts.
• Able to evaluate leads for tasking and able to use appropriate tasking authorities.
• Possess a basic understanding internet protocols, digital telecommunications technologies, and internet routing.
• Possess a basic understanding of SIGINT collection.
• Capable of basic target discovery and collection triage.

Bachelor’s Degree

Certifications preferred: Sec+, Net+, CEH

Must have an active and current TS SCI with Polygraph.

Level may vary based on years of relevant work experience:

• Level 1: Two (2) or more years of experience
• Level 2: Five (5) or more years of experience
• Level 3: Eight (8) or more years of experience
• Level 4: Eleven (11) or more years of experience

Salary Range for Level 1- 4: $74,000-$243,000

The salary range for this role represents Aperio’s good‑faith estimate of compensation at the time of posting. Placement within the range is based on multiple factors, including but not limited to an individual’s qualifications, relevant experience, education, certifications, technical skills, contract labor categories and/or rates, work location, market conditions, and business needs.

Benefits

At Aperio Global, we understand the value of investing in our most important asset—our employees. That’s why we have crafted a comprehensive benefits package designed to help you make the best decision for yourself, your family and your lifestyle. For additional details, contact our talent acquisition team.

• Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
• Retirement Plan (401k, IRA) with 100% employer match up to 6%
• Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)
• Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays)
• Short Term & Long Term Disability
• Professional Development
• (and much more)

Aperio Global is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building an inclusive workforce where all employees and applicants are treated with respect and fairness. Employment decisions are based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs — never on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, military or veteran status, pregnancy/childbirth, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, ethnicity, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.