Mantech

ManTech seeks a motivated, career and customer-oriented Cryptographic Vulnerability Analyst to join our team in Linthicum Heights, MD.  This is a full time position with 5 days being onsite. This role is vital for ensuring the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of systems within secure environments.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Identify vulnerabilities and cybersecurity threats to programs, functions, products, applications and systems through the use of HUMINT, SIGINT, GEOINT, OSINT, and other information to assess vulnerabilities while conducting security evaluation of hardware and software components, architectures, algorithms and protocols.

• Compare and contrast various cryptographic attack techniques and developing operationally effective countermeasures by collaborating with threat analysts to conduct comprehensive, regular threat assessments of network cryptographic devices, components, and technologies

• Provide formal and informal reports, briefings, and perspectives of actual and potential attacks against the systems, technologies, applications, operations, or missions being studied by using threat analysis and technical knowledge to provide security guidance and develop mitigations to threats and vulnerabilities

• Develop mitigation strategies and countermeasures to address vulnerabilities of networks, products, and services while creating and maintaining documentation on technical information and document research processes, analyses and/or the results.

• Identify vulnerabilities to attack communications networks and systems while developing countermeasures and performing security analysis, evaluation and guidance on the design and implementation of cryptographic protocols.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Eight years of Cryptographic Vulnerability Analysis

• ​In lieu of eight years of Cryptographic Vulnerability Analysis experience candidates will have a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or Computer Engineering plus three years of Cryptographic Vulnerability Analysis experience.

• Candidate may also have a Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or Computer Engineering plus one year of Cryptographic Vulnerability Analysis experience.

Clearance Requirements:

• Must have a current/active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph

Physical Requirements:

• Must be able to remain in a stationary position for extended periods of time. Needs to occasionally move about inside the office to access file cabinets, office machinery, etc. Constantly operates a computer and other office productivity machinery, such as a calculator, copy machine and computer printer.