Supervisory Cyber Threat Analyst with Security Clearance

Duties

• Lead a mission-focused cyber threat intelligence section within CISA Threat Hunting, supervising federal employees and coordinating contractor support to deliver timely, accurate, and actionable CTI in support of national cyber defense operations.
• Direct CTI support to high-priority Threat Hunting missions, including proactive hunts, incident response engagements, targeted notifications, vulnerability exploitation analysis, operational priorities, and senior leadership decision-making.
• Oversee analysis of advanced cyber threats, including nation-state and other highly capable adversaries, by guiding analysts as they assess adversary infrastructure, malware, tools, tactics, techniques, procedures, victimology, and targeting.
• Build strong working relationships across CISA Threat Hunting, the Cybersecurity Division, interagency partners, law enforcement, intelligence community partners, private-sector stakeholders, and vendors to improve threat visibility and coordinated defensive action.
• Manage section priorities, workloads, deliverables, and surge support in a fast-moving operational environment where emerging threats, active incidents, customer requirements, and long-term program improvements must be balanced.
• Review and approve CTI products, briefings, actor profiles, campaign assessments, SOPs, work instructions, and other deliverables to ensure analytic rigor, technical accuracy, operational relevance, and clear communication.
• Develop analysts, team leads, and future leaders by setting clear expectations, providing constructive feedback, strengthening analytic tradecraft, encouraging initiative, and building a professional, accountable, mission-driven team culture.