Target Digital Network Analyst (TDNA), Lead Associate

Peraton’s Cyber Mission in Annapolis Junction, MD supplies the Intel community with mission essential Next Generation SIGINT Analysts and Cyber professionals that support and defend our nation’s security. Be a part of a team of SIGINT, Intelligence and Cyber professionals that are supplying our nation with leading Next Generation cybersecurity solutions. Peraton delivers unique intelligence, analytics, and data management solutions to address the world’s most difficult challenges.

Peraton is seeking Next Generation Target Digital Network Analyst (TDNA) to support our mission to defend and protect our national security.

Responsibilities may include:

• 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 analysis techniques 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

Basic Qualifications: 

• 9 years experience with no degree OR 7 years experience with an associates OR 5 years experience with a bachelors degree OR 3 years experience with a masters degree OR 2 years with a PhD
• Relevant experience must be in conducting cyber intelligence analysis, next generation analysis, digital network analysis, or SIGINT analysis to include target development, social network analysis, metadata analysis, knowledge of customer tool sets and databases, in conjunction with educational requirements detailed below. 
• Ability to analyze and produce intelligence information through adding, updating, or enhancing information in mission relevant databases
• Ability to conduct target research and analysis and analyze metadata
• Ability to identify target communications within the global network
• Ability to create and maintain documentation of analysis, tradecraft, research and knowledge
• Foreign language proficiency may satisfy labor category requirements
• Active TS/SCI security clearance with a current polygraph is required

Desired Qualifications:

• Ability to provide formal/informal analysis training in all forms including on-the-job training, creation of video training artifacts, and physical/virtual classroom training
• Ability to work with others across analysis disciplines to produce the best possible results and follow oversight and compliance requirements

Peraton offers enhanced benefits to employees working on this critical National Security program, which include heavily subsidized employee benefits coverage for you and your dependents, 25 days of PTO accrued annually up to a generous PTO cap and participation in an attractive bonus plan.

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Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can’t be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we’re keeping people around the world safe and secure.