Targeting Officer

Job Description

BAE Systems is seeking a highly skilled targeting officer with at least three years of cyber experience to support a client’s operational requirements in a challenging, dynamic setting located in the Washington Metropolitan Area. The selected candidates will oversee sophisticated targeting efforts, drive operational initiatives, and work with various teams to achieve mission objectives. The position requires a strong understanding of data analytics, digital networks, targeting concepts, and experience with IC tools and systems. Candidates will be expected to effectively interact with customer personnel at all levels within the customer organization. The positions require prior experience in supporting customer operations or familiarity with the Intelligence Community and its objectives. Successful candidates will have strong investigative skills, be a self-starter, identify issues and offer solutions, and can collaborate and work both independently and as part of a team.

Candidates should have a strong understanding of data analytics, collection, cleaning, and organizing raw data to find hidden patterns, draw conclusions, and used those conclusions to make better decisions. Perform Predictive analytics and Prescriptive analytics.

The positions require an active clearance with Polygraph. There is no exception to the clearance requirement.

Required Education, Experience, & Skills

• Bachelor’s Degree (or equivalent experience) in areas such as Cybersecurity, Computer Network Forensics, Network Administration, Computer Security, Information Systems, Computer Science or large-scale data analysis.
• At least three (3) years of experience performing work related to the position and an understanding of digital networks, including OSI model, network diagrams and architecture, network security and management products, web services, and layer 3/layer 2 configuration files. Demonstrated strong investigative skills to perform independent analysis on a variety of data sets to find elements of interest, whether it be computing and mobile devices, network activity, or individuals.
• Experience with internet applications and protocols, Windows and Linux operating systems, SQL, Hadoop, or other DBMS. An understanding of scripting languages such as Python and certifications to include CISSP, GIAC GPEN, CEH, OSCP, CNDA, and Sec+ are desired.

Preferred Education, Experience, & Skills

• Network traffic analysis experience using Wireshark, Suricata, and nDPI, to baseline standard activity and identify anomalies.
• Experience, an understanding or interest in business, cryptocurrency, finance, and/or related fields.
• The ability or interest in leveraging new technologies, including FINTECH