Cyntel Technologies is seeking TNDA’s, EA’s, CDNA’s and DNEA’s candidates for a program located at Ft Meade MD. If you have not already signed with a current teammate, please make sure you check with us!
Incumbents are also Welcome!
Clearance – TS/SCI w/Poly – (FSP Preferred / CI Poly acceptable)
Responsibilities by Position:
As a Target Network Digital Analysts (TDNA), you will:
• Conduct advanced 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 additional target information.
• Maintain appropriate databases for targeting, tasking, and analysis.
• Identify intelligence gaps to 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 your knowledge and understanding of IC needs and missions.
• Be part of a team, working together with government, military, and contractor personnel to develop shared understandings of intelligence needs, mission relevance, and areas of expertise.
• Apply your 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.
• Distill, document, contextualize and share your findings–including any new tradecraft that you develop–with teammates, stakeholders, and intelligence consumers.
Minimum Requirements:
Education: Liberal Arts field (e.g., English, History, Communications, Languages and Cultures, International Relations, and Political Science) are preferred, but a degree in any field is acceptable.
Relevant Experience: Relevant experience requires aspects of Intelligence Analysis (e.g., target development, social network analysis, metadata analysis, knowledge of customer tool sets and databases). In some cases, foreign language proficiency may also be used to satisfy experience requirements.
Specific labor category determined by years of experience + educational degrees:
Level 1:
• 6 years of exp (no degree) OR
• AA degree + 4 years OR
• B.A. degree + 2 years
Level 2
• 9 years exp (no degree) OR
• AA + 7 years OR
• B.A. + 5 years, OR
• Masters + 3 years, OR
• PhD + 2 years
Level 3
• 12 yrs exp (no degree) OR
• AA + 10 years OR
• B.A. + 8 years, OR
• Masters + 6 years OR
• PhD + 4 years
Level 4
• 15 yrs exp (no degree) OR
• AA + 13 years, OR
• B.A. + 11 years, OR
• Masters + 9 years OR
• PhD + 7 years
As an Exploitation Analyst (EA), you will:
Apply your deep understanding of adversary networks, network defenses, and cyber network operational capabilities to develop exploitation plans and make operational adjustments as plans are executed.
Be part of a team, working together with government, military, and contractor personnel to develop shared understandings of intelligence needs, mission relevance, and areas of expertise.
Apply your 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.
Distill, document, contextualize and share your findings–including any new tradecraft that you develop–with teammates, stakeholders, and intelligence consumers.
Minimum Requirements:
Education: Degree in Network Engineering, Systems Engineering, Information Technology, or related field (e.g., General Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Forensics, Cyber Security, Software Engineering, Information Assurance, or Computer Security).
Note that 18 semester hours of military training/coursework in networking, computer science, or cyber topics is equivalent to an associate degree.
Relevant Experience: Relevant experience must be in computer or information systems design/development/analysis. In addition, it may also include engineering hardware and/or software, programming, computer/network security, vulnerability analysis, penetration testing, computer forensics, information assurance, systems engineering, and/or network and systems administration.
Note: Completion of military training in a relevant area such as JCAC (Joint Cyber Analysis Course) will be considered towards the relevant experience requirement (i.e., 24-week JCAC course will count as 6 months of experience). In some cases, foreign language proficiency may also be used to satisfy experience requirements; recent Interagency language Roundtable (ILR) scores are required to substantiate your proficiency level.
Specific labor category determined by years of experience + educational degrees:
Level 1
• 2 years’ applicable experience with a bachelor’s degree, OR
• 4 years’ applicable experience with associate degree
Level 2
• 2 years’ applicable experience with a PhD, OR
• 3 years’ applicable experience with a master’s degree, OR
• 5 years’ applicable experience with a bachelor’s degree, OR
• 7 years’ applicable experience with an associate degree
Level 3
• 4 years’ applicable experience with a PhD, OR
• 6 years’ applicable experience with a master’s degree, OR
• 8 years’ applicable experience with a bachelor’s degree, OR
• 10 years’ applicable experience with an associate degree
Level 4
• 7 years’ applicable experience with a PhD, OR
• 9 years’ applicable experience with a master’s degree, OR
• 11 years’ applicable experience with a bachelor’s degree, OR
• 13 years’ applicable experience with an associate degree
As a Digital Network Exploitation Analyst (DNEA), you will:
• Evaluate target opportunities using all source data to understand and map target networks, and to assist in developing detailed exploitation and operations plans.
• Analyze SIGINT and cybersecurity data at multiple levels up and down the OSI network stack and bring a solid understanding of logical/physical IP core infrastructure, communication devices and how they connect to networks, and the traffic movements in a network.
• Be involved in developing new tradecraft needed to perform this analysis as technologies evolve.
• Be part of a team, working together with government, military, and contractor personnel to develop shared understandings of intelligence needs, mission relevance, and areas of expertise.
• Apply your 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
• Distill, document, contextualize and share your findings–including any new tradecraft that you develop–with teammates, stakeholders, and intelligence consumers.
Minimum Requirements:
Education: Degree in Computer Science. Degree in related fields (e.g., Engineering, Mathematics) may be considered relevant if programs contain a concentration of courses in the following foundational CS areas: algorithms, computer architecture (not network architecture), programming methodologies and languages, data structures, logic and computation, and advanced mathematics (for example, calculus, discrete mathematics).
Information Technology (IT) and Information Security (IS) degrees may be considered relevant if the programs contain the amount and type of coursework equivalent to a Computer Science (CS) major.
Relevant Experience: Relevant experience must be in computer or information systems design/development/analysis roles. In addition, it may also include engineering hardware and/or software, programming, computer/network security, vulnerability analysis, penetration testing, computer forensics, information assurance, systems engineering, and/or network and systems administration.
Note: Completion of military training in a relevant area such as JCAC (Joint Cyber Analysis Course) may be considered towards the relevant experience requirement (i.e., 24-week JCAC course may count as 6 months of experience).
Specific labor category determined by years of experience + educational degrees:
Level 1
• 2 years’ applicable experience with a bachelor’s degree, OR
• 4 years’ applicable experience with associate degree
Level 2
• 2 years’ applicable experience with a PhD, OR
• 3 years’ applicable experience with a master’s degree, OR
• 5 years’ applicable experience with a bachelor’s degree, OR
• 7 years’ applicable experience with an associate degree
Level 3
• 4 years’ applicable experience with a PhD, OR
• 6 years’ applicable experience with a master’s degree, OR
• 8 years’ applicable experience with a bachelor’s degree, OR
• 10 years’ applicable experience with an associate degree
Level 4
• 7 years’ applicable experience with a PhD, OR
• 9 years’ applicable experience with a master’s degree, OR
• 11 years’ applicable experience with a bachelor’s degree, OR
• 13 years’ applicable experience with an associate degree
As a Computer Network Defense Analysts (CNDA), you will:
Use information collected from a variety of computer network defense resources (including, but not limited to, intrusion detection system alerts, firewall and network traffic logs, and host system logs) to identify, analyze, and report events that occur or might occur within their environment.
Minimum Requirements:
Education: Degree in Network Engineering, Systems Engineering, Information Technology, or related field (e.g., General Engineering, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Forensics, Cyber Security, Software Engineering, Information Assurance, or Computer Security).
Note: Up to 18 semester hours of military training/coursework in networking, computer science, or cyber topics is equivalent to an associate degree. (Applicable to Levels 1 – Level 4)
Experience: Relevant experience must be in computer or information systems design/development, programming, information/cyber/network security, vulnerability analysis, penetration testing, computer forensics, information assurance, and/or systems engineering. Additionally, must have experience in network or system administration.
If not credited toward education requirements, completion of military training in a relevant area such as JCAC (Joint Cyber Analysis Course), Undergraduate Cyber Training (UCT), Network Warfare Bridge Course (NWBC)/Intermediate Network Warfare Training (INWT), Cyber Defense Operations will be considered towards relevant experience requirement (i.e., 20- to 24-week courses will count as 6 months of experience; 10-14 weeks will count as 3 months of experience). In some cases, foreign language proficiency may also be used to satisfy experience requirements; recent Interagency language Roundtable (ILR) scores are required to substantiate your proficiency level. The total of all experience equivalencies is capped at half of the required years of experience.
Specific labor category determined by years of experience + educational degrees:
Level 1
• 2 years’ applicable experience with a bachelor’s degree, OR
• 4 years’ applicable experience with associate degree
Level 2
• 2 years’ applicable experience with a PhD, OR
• 3 years’ applicable experience with a master’s degree, OR
• 5 years’ applicable experience with a bachelor’s degree, OR
• 7 years’ applicable experience with an associate degree
Level 3
• 4 years’ applicable experience with a PhD, OR
• 6 years’ applicable experience with a master’s degree, OR
• 8 years’ applicable experience with a bachelor’s degree, OR
• 10 years’ applicable experience with an associate degree
Level 4
• 7 years’ applicable experience with a PhD, OR
• 9 years’ applicable experience with a master’s degree, OR
• 11 years’ applicable experience with a bachelor’s degree, OR
• 13 years’ applicable experience with an associate degree
Why Cyntel Technologies?
• Cyntel Technologies offers a competitive benefit package to include:
• Paid Holidays
• Paid time off (PTO)
• Bereavement Leave
• Military Leave
• Medical Plan
• Dental Plan
• Vision
• 401K
• Work/Life Insurance
But what sets Cyntel Technologies apart from most other companies? That would be the continual open-door access to Senior Leadership as Cyntel nurtures an environment where you can voice your ideas, opinions, concerns, and you will be heard. Our management focus and culture are based on “One Team, One Fight” and resonates throughout our entire staff every day.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other legally protected status.