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Top Secret/SCI
Unspecified
Unspecified
IT - Security
Linthicum Heights, MD (On-Site/Office)
ManTech is seeking a motivated, career and customer-oriented Cryptographic Vulnerability Analyst to join our team in the Linthicum location and will be part of a team that provides Cybersecurity Analysis and Cryptographic Engineering technical expertise.
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
Basic Qualifications:
Security Clearance Requirements:
Physical Requirements:
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Identify vulnerabilities and cybersecurity threats to program, functions, products, applications and systems
- Leverage HUMINT, SIGINT, GEOINT, OSINT, and other information to assess vulnerabilities and conduct security evaluation of hardware and software components, architectures, algorithms and protocols
- Analyze and characterize identified vulnerabilities and threats
- Relate identified vulnerabilities and threats and the effects on the operations and missions supported by those systems
- Compare and contrast various cryptographic attack techniques and developing operationally effective countermeasures
- Provide formal and informal reports, briefings, and perspectives of actual and potential attacks against the systems, technologies, applications, operations, or missions being studied
- Collaborate with threat analysts to conduct comprehensive, regular threat assessments of network cryptographic devices, components, and technologies
- Use threat analysis and technical knowledge to provide security guidance and develop mitigations to threats and vulnerabilities
- Team with threat analysts to conduct comprehensive, regular threat assessments of network cryptographic devices, components, and technologies
- Create and maintain documentation on technical information and document research processes, analyses and/or the results
- Write logical and accurate technical reports to communicate ideas across the enterprise
- Develop mitigation strategies and countermeasures to address vulnerabilities of networks, products, and services
- Evaluate methods, tools, and techniques that can be used to secure information/communication systems and the facilities that house them
- Analyze data using mathematical/statistical methods
- Analyze problems to determine technical solutions
- Apply mathematical or computational methods and lines of reasoning
- Evaluate technical proposals and solution designs
- Identify new applications of known techniques
- Identify vulnerabilities to attack communications networks and systems and developing countermeasures
- Perform security analysis, evaluation and guidance on the design and implementation of cryptographic and communication protocols
- Apply concepts and principles of computer security and vulnerability analysis
- Work individually or as part of a team and may serve as a team lead
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or Computer Engineering and 3 years of experience
- Or a Master's degree in computer science, Engineering, or Computer Engineering and 1 year of experience
- In lieu of a degree, a total of 8 years of relevant experience
Security Clearance Requirements:
- Must have a current/active TS/SCI with polygraph
Physical Requirements:
- Must be able to remain in a stationary position 50%.
- Constantly operates a computer and other office productivity machinery, such as a calculator, copy machine and computer printer.
- The person in this position frequently communicates with co-workers, management and customers, which may involve delivering presentations.
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