Beyond SOF
Malware Analyst III (MA3)
Salary: Up to $217,500, depending on education and experience
Security Requirements: TS/SCI with CI Poly (both active)
Education: Minimum of bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or related discipline.
Certifications: None Required.
Experience: Ten years Required.
- Employs engineering techniques and processes to analyze software to identify vulnerabilities.
- Re-creates programs to rebuild something like it, exploits its weaknesses, or strengthens its defenses.
- Develops design specifications by inspection and analysis to offset various malware and to protect and defend USCYBERCOM infrastructure.
- Develops, researches, and maintains proficiency in tools, techniques, countermeasures, and trends in computer and network vulnerabilities, data hiding, and encryption.
- Conducts vulnerability assessments/penetration tests of information systems.
- Ensures software standards are met; designs, develops, documents, tests, and debugs applications software and systems that contain logical and mathematical solutions.
- Performs in-depth detailed research of software and methodologies to build defensive and offensive technical capabilities for USCYBERCOM.
- Possesses senior-level experience as a Malware Analyst with a background in cutting-edge cyberspace technologies.
- Often and without source code or documentation, performs system analysis, reverse engineering, and static, dynamic, and best-practice malware analytics methodologies and analysis on Windows, Android, or UNIX-based platforms.
- Coordinates effort to develop and analyze cyberspace operations, DCO, Computer Network Exploitation (CNE), and OCO solutions.
- Creates malware detection topologies.
- Possesses comprehensive knowledge of programming skills especially including C/C++ and Assembly language, Windows internal C/C++ and either UNIX/Linux or mobile (Android) platform, malware and related research and analysis, reverse engineering, vulnerability analysis, exploit development, and related disciplines.