Junior Cyber Analyst

Location: Quantico, VA, United States Department: Security, Surveillance and Enforcement

Job Title: Cyber Analyst - Junior

Job Code: ITS913

Location: Quantico, VA

Reports to: Program Manager

FLSA Status: Exempt

Supervisory: No supervisory/management authority

Prepared Date: 10/1/2026

A government contract requires that this position be restricted to U.S. citizens or legal permanent residents. You must provide documentation that you are a U.S. citizen or legal permanent resident to qualify.

This position requires an active Top Secret/SCI clearance.

Position Summary

Cherokee Insights is seeking a Cyber Analyst to provide junior-level cyber analysis to identify, assess, and disrupt threats to cleared industry, cleared personnel, DOD, and Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA).

Compensation & Benefits

Starting Salary Range for Cyber Analyst - Junior: $80,000 – $90,000

Benefits That Set Us Apart

When considering your next opportunity, compensation is only part of the picture. We offer a benefits package designed to invest in your future and support your life outside of work.

Highlights include

• Up to a 6% 401(k) company match to help you build long-term financial security
• Paid time off as part of our comprehensive benefits package, so you have the flexibility to rest, recharge, and enjoy what matters most
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, plus prescription drug coverage
• Basic life and AD&D insurance, with supplemental life options
• Short-term and long-term disability coverage
• Paid holidays
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA) and Health Savings Account (HSA) options
• Professional development, training, and certification support
• Voluntary benefits including accident, critical illness, and identity theft protection

Because taking care of our employees isn’t just a promise, it’s part of who we are.

Benefits are subject to change and eligibility requirements apply.

Essential Functions, Duties & Responsibilities

Includes the following

• Facilitate USG responses to adversary action and insider threats by sharing threat indicators and enabling responsive measures from other agencies and services.
• Develop cyber capabilities and processes that illuminate threats, enhance awareness, and enable customer response.
• Operationalize an enterprise security risk management methodology across Government and industry stakeholders.
• Provide CI Cyber analytic support to the JCITS via validation and ingest of IOC.
• Author and/or support cyber threat products and briefings that illuminate threats and enhance awareness.
• Produce ARs from MIRs with analytic assessments in DCSA system of record.
• Author Shared Indicator Bulletins that adhere to IC standards and reveal emerging trends in FIE targeting, issues of strategic significance, and/or actionable information against FIE threats.
• Support analytic production on classified CI Cyber threat products that highlight emerging trends in FIE targeting, issues of strategic, and/or actionable information against FIE threats.
• Provide support to CI Cyber threat analysis briefs.
• Collaborate, coordinate, and engage with customers, stakeholders, and the CI cyber community to share threat information, promote integration, enhance awareness, and enable customer response.
• Support CI cyber engagements or working groups.
• Distribute DC3 MIRs to DCSA Field Personnel.
• Publish mission area related IIR evaluations/SDR for all finished CI cyber analytic products.
• Performs other job-related duties as assigned
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned.

Supervisory Responsibilities

No supervisory/management authority

Basic Qualifications

• An additional 4 years of experience for a total of 7 years of experience may be substituted for a Bachelor's degree.
• Working knowledge of the concepts involved in the specific functions outlined in the specified labor category description.
• Knowledgeable of and demonstrates ability to apply Intelligence Community (IC) and DoD classification guidelines and procedures.
• Able to work semi-independently with oversight and direction.
• Use logic when evaluating and synthesizing multiple sources of information.
• Demonstrates understanding of interpreting analysis to include, but not limited to, its meaning, importance, and implications.
• Ability to defend analytic judgements with sound, logical conclusions and adapt analytic judgments when presented with new information, evolving conditions, or unexpected developments.
• Produce timely, logical, and concise analytic reports, documents, assessments, studies, and briefing materials in formats including
• Microsoft Office tools (e.g. Excel, Word, PowerPoint, etc.), electronic/ soft copy matrices and/ or web-enabled formats.
• Demonstrates ability to communicate complex issues clearly in a concise and organized manner both verbally and non-verbally; with strong grammar skills.
• Ability to develop structured research including, but not limited to, obtaining, evaluating, organizing, and maintaining information within security and data protocols.
• Able to recognize nuances and resolve contradictions and inconsistencies in information.
• Working knowledge using complex analytic methodologies, such as structured analytic techniques or alternative approaches, to examine biases, assumptions, and theories to eliminate uncertainty, strengthen analytic arguments, and mitigate surprise.
• Structured analytic techniques include, but not limited to, Analysis of Competing Hypotheses, Devil's Advocacy, High-Impact/ Low-Impact Analysis, Red Team Analysis and Alternative Futures Analysis.
• Understanding of intelligence collection capabilities and limitations, to include but not limited to, technical sensors/ platforms and human intelligence sources related to the labor category.
• Demonstrates understanding of evaluating collected intelligence reporting, engaging