Target Digital Network Analyst (TDNA)

Responsibilities

• Conduct analytical collaboration and cross training with other SIGINT analysts or organizations to cross-team and cross-level information to increase target continuity and facilitate information sharing and analyst collaboration.
• Understand Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model, ports and protocols associated with telecommunications technologies, IPv4 and IPv6 networks, Classless Interdomain Routing (CIDR), and common internet protocols.
• Document analytical tradecraft and target knowledge and create working aids to increase target continuity and facilitate information sharing and analyst collaboration.
• Prepare briefings & reports on analytical methodology and results.
• Collaborate with Data Scientist to automate analytical workflow and enrich data.
• Solve complex intelligence analysis challenges with a combination of analytical judgment, critical thinking, and proven analytical practices.
• Evaluate technical information on targets of interest and identify changes to technology, or alternative means of communication.
• Perform scientific and/or technical intelligence analysis to include but not limited to reporting on trends and implications of military force structure or doctrinal changes, or technical analysis of military systems.

Qualifications

• Minimum Experience: Citizenship: Must be a US citizen
  Clearance: Must have and be able to maintain a Top Secret (TS) with Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) adjudication
  Education: Bachelors Degree
  Years of Experience: 7+ cyber/NSA-IC analytic experience, including Target Digital Network Analysis (TDNA) and/or Digital Network Intelligence (DNI) production.
• Additional Experience: Demonstrated experience mapping and assessing target digital networks (nodes, identifiers, infrastructure, services, communications paths) to support collection, access, and operational planning.
  Proficient in interpreting network and host artifacts (e.g., IPs, domains, URLs, certificates, email/handles, user-agent strings, ports/protocols) and correlating data across multiple sources.
  Strong working knowledge of networking fundamentals: OSI/TCP-IP, TCP/UDP, common protocols/services (e.g., HTTP/S, DNS, SMTP, SSH, VPNs), IPv4/IPv6, subnetting, and CIDR.
  Experience producing customer-ready analytic products (target packages, network diagrams, technical assessments, and briefings) with clear sourcing and defensible judgments.
  Ability to work independently in a time-sensitive, mission production environment and coordinate with collection, exploitation, and reporting teams.