Target Digital Network Analyst (TDNA)

About Us: Innovating to solve real-world problems

Applied Insight enhances the ability of federal government customers to preserve national security, deliver justice and serve the public with advanced technologies and quality analysis. We work closely with agencies and industry to overcome technical and cultural hurdles to innovation, empowering them with the latest end-to-end cloud infrastructure, big data and cyber capabilities. Our expertise in cross-domain and boundary solutions, network analytics, DevOps and low-to-high development is unique in our industry. We develop and deliver innovative products and applications that are deployed in highly sensitive customer environments and have broad applications for federal missions.

Applied Insight is seeking Target Digital Network Analysts (TDNAs) to support core Intelligence Community (IC) missions at multiple locations. As a TDNA, you will be given the opportunity to showcase your SIGINT analysis talent and expertise while supporting missions that are vital to our national security.

As a TDNA, you will:

• Conduct advanced analysis of collection and open-source data to generate insights and leads.
• Ensure target continuity, profile targets and their activities, and develop techniques to gain additional target information.
• Maintain appropriate databases for targeting, tasking, and analysis.
• Identify intelligence gaps to tailor current collection or enable new collection to close the gaps.
• Employ multiple analysis disciplines such as pattern recognition against targets' communications, network usage and digital footprints.
• Apply your knowledge and understanding of IC needs and missions.
• Be part of a team, working together with government, military, and contractor personnel to develop shared understandings of intelligence needs, mission relevance, and areas of expertise.
• Apply your innate curiosity and analytical talent to form hypotheses, critically assess and choose analysis techniques, then query, merge, enrich, evaluate, and pivot within data to attain and share insights.
• Distill, document, contextualize and share your findings--including any new tradecraft that you develop--with teammates, stakeholders, and intelligence consumers.

What we are expecting from you (i.e. the qualifications you must have):

• Active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph Clearance
• Relevant experience requires aspects of Intelligence Analysis (e.g., target development, social network analysis, metadata analysis, knowledge of customer tool sets and databases).
• In some cases, foreign language proficiency may also be used to satisfy experience requirements.

Specific labor category determined by years of experience + educational degrees:

Level 1

• 2 years’ applicable experience with a bachelor’s degree, OR
• 4 years’ applicable experience with associate degree
• 6 years’ applicable experience without degree

Level 2

• 2 years’ applicable experience with a PhD, OR
• 3 years’ applicable experience with a master’s degree, OR
• 5 years’ applicable experience with a bachelor’s degree, OR
• 7 years’ applicable experience with an associate degree

Level 3

• 4 years’ applicable experience with a PhD, OR
• 6 years’ applicable experience with a master’s degree, OR
• 8 years’ applicable experience with a bachelor’s degree, OR
• 10 years’ applicable experience with an associate degree
• 12 years’ applicable experience without a degree

Level 4

• 7 years’ applicable experience with a PhD, OR
• 9 years’ applicable experience with a master’s degree, OR
• 11 years’ applicable experience with a bachelor’s degree, OR
• 13 years’ applicable experience with an associate degree
• 15 years’ applicable experience without a degree

What we will provide in return: Excellent compensation and amazing benefits

• Multiple health insurance options which include a PPO plan with ZERO deductibles and an HSA plan.
• 401k Immediate Vesting. Company matches 100% of the first 3% contributed and 50% of the next 2% contributed.
• Fully paid long-term disability, short-term disability, and life insurance.
• Flexible Spending Account options.
• Generous paid time off that includes one bucket of leave to use how the employee sees fit; no separate holiday, sick, or vacation.
• Flexible work schedules with the ability to bank extra hours for additional time off.
• Government shutdown protection where employees don't have to use leave for up to 3 days out of the year for inclement weather or budget issues.
• Employee centric culture and a belief that we should empower those who are good at what they do and then give them the tools they need to achieve success and grow their career.
• A commitment to learning and growth and easy ways to achieve both including a training budget, education assistance, mentorship programs and collaborative learning sessions.
• A collaborative environment that fosters communication and an open-door policy.

Applied Insight provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to actual or perceived race, creed, color, religion, alienage or national origin, ancestry, age, disability or handicap, sex, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws.