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Junior Cyber Threat Analyst

Cherokee FederalQuantico, Virginia🇺🇸United StatesPosted Oct 7, 2026

Quick Overview

Seniority
Junior
Employment type
Full Time
Work mode
On Site
Location
Quantico, Virginia, United States
Microsoft Office

Job Description

Cherokee Federal seeks a Junior Cyber Threat Analyst to support counterintelligence-focused cyber operations for defense clients. You will analyze cyber threats to cleared industry and personnel, validate and ingest indicators of compromise, and produce assessments, bulletins, and briefings that illuminate foreign intelligence and insider threats. The role is on-site in a secure environment and involves close collaboration with DCSA and CI cyber stakeholders.

Responsibilities

  • Share cyber threat indicators to support U.
  • S. government responses to adversary and insider threats.
  • Develop and refine cyber analysis capabilities and processes that illuminate threats and enable customer response.
  • Provide counterintelligence cyber analytic support, including validation and ingest of indicators of compromise (IOCs).
  • Produce analytic reports and threat products, including assessments, bulletins, and briefings following IC standards.
  • Evaluate and synthesize multi-source intelligence, resolving contradictions and applying structured analytic techniques.
  • Collaborate with CI cyber stakeholders and working groups to share threat information and enhance situational awareness.
  • Distribute incident and mission reports to field personnel and publish evaluations on finished CI cyber analytic products.
  • Perform additional cyber analysis and reporting tasks as assigned within DCSA mission requirements.

Required Skills

  • Cyber threat analysis
  • Counterintelligence (CI) fundamentals
  • Structured analytic techniques
  • Intelligence reporting and briefing
  • IOC validation and ingestion
  • Knowledge of IC and Do
  • D classification guidelines
  • Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Power
  • Point)
  • Intelligence collection management awareness
  • Written analytic report writing
  • Analytical reasoning and synthesis

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