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# Senior Cyber Analyst

- **Company:** Cherokee Federal
- **Location:** Quantico, VA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $130,000.0 - $160,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Data Analysis, Cyber Security, Knowledge Management
- **Published:** September 21, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.clearancejobs.com/jobs/9183905/senior-cyber-analyst

## About the Role

* Ability to communicate understanding from information that may be incomplete, indirect, highly complex, seemingly unrelated, and / or technically advanced.

 * Demonstrates ability to structure analysis based on trends in reporting and a range of analytic perspectives from other analysts, organizations, and intelligence disciplines.

 * Experience collaborating and working with other IC members on information sharing, driving collection, and addressing analytic disputes and conflict resolution.

 * Demonstrates ability to develop concise, insightful, and comprehensive products for defense intelligence.

 * Lead teams in researching multifaceted or critical problems.

 * Experience providing guidance in selecting, designing, and applying analytic methodologies.

 * Uses argument evaluation and validated analytic methodologies to challenge differing perspectives.

 * Mastery of qualitative and quantitative analytic methodologies and pursue developments in academia or other fields that affect tradecraft methodology.

 * Ability to define comprehensive, new, or unique research approaches that enable rigorous assessments to address and contribute to high-level tasks.

 * Have in-depth analysis of analytic operations and knowledge management issues across organizational and intra-IC boundaries and clearly articulates key findings.

 * Ability to work independently and with minimal oversight.

 * Experience reviewing analytic products for cogent arguments, tradecraft standards, and adequate support for conclusions; routinely tests analytic rigor of analytic products.

 * Performs other duties as may be assigned.

 * Must be a US Citizen.

 * This position requires an active Top Secret/SCI clearance with a Counterintelligence polygraph. Candidates holding an active Top Secret/SCI clearance without the polygraph may be selected; the ability to obtain the required Counterintelligence polygraph is a condition of the position and will be completed as part of the hiring process.

 * Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer; may occasionally require standing or moving about the office for extended periods.

 * Must pass pre-employment qualifications of Cherokee Federal.

Preferred Qualifications:

 * Preferred to have a minimum of twelve (12) years of experience related to the specific labor category with at least a portion of the experience within the last two (2) years., * Or have Bachelor's degree related to the labor category from a college or university accredited by an agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education and an additional five (5) years of related senior experience, for a total of seventeen (17) years, as a substitute to the Master's degree.

## Description

Cherokee Strategic Edge (CSE) is seeking a Cyber Analyst (Cybersecurity Assessment) to support our government customer., * Conducts complex analysis of interrelated cyber capability issues

 * Develop and implement research and process improvements in collaboration with government leadership, * Master's degree in an area related to the labor category from a college or university accredited by an agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education