Leidos
Media Malware Analyst, Senior
Odenton, MD · Senior
No sponsorship$108k-$195kDetected 5 hours ago
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About the role
- Looking for an opportunity to make an impact?
- We empower our teams, contribute to our communities, and operate sustainably.
- This opportunity is in anticipation of a potential future contract award.
Responsibilities
- Provide timely, accurate, relevant support in manner that best supports USCYBERCOM in identifying and assessing emerging threats and vulnerabilities in the Cyberspace domain.
- Lead forensic analysis of vulnerable or compromised systems and media and identify and analyze adversary TTPs and intrusion artifacts, and lead static and dynamic malware analysis, including reverse engineering and extracting malicious files from digital media and conduct detailed file analysis, as appropriate.
- Create technical analysis reports with actionable intelligence findings, delivering timely, accurate, relevant threat briefs and analysis updates that meet explicit and implied requirements, and deliver presentations to leadership in appropriate formats.
- Analyze operational reporting to correlate attack trends and shared tradecraft and support development and improvement of enterprise malware analysis tools.
- Develop and maintain validated MD5 hash lists for signature repositories Analyze and evaluate All-Source finished intelligence, single-source intelligence, and technical data from various sources to identify Cyber threat patterns and anomalies.
- Collaborate with operational, technical, and intelligence elements across USCYBERCOM to enhance situational awareness and threat response capabilities.
- Maintain a current understanding of advanced persistent threats (APTs), threat actor tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs), and cyber threat trends affecting national security.
- Maintain situational awareness of, and execute on demand, CO crisis plans.
- Ability to support timely, accurate, relevant analytical production, to include documents, summaries, issue papers, talking points, and briefings.
- Experience developing detection signatures and writing technical reports for leadership.
Requirements
- Active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility and Polygraph required.
- BA/BS degree or higher within Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Software Engineering, Digital Forensics, or related field, or ability to complete degree within one year of hire.
- Working experience with tools such as IDA Pro, Ghidra, Wireshark, Volatility, and sandbox environments.
- Demonstrated proficiency working in a fast-paced collaborative environment, ability to proactively multi-task and meet short deadlines.
- Favorable if you have: Masters' Degree or higher within Cybersecurity, Information Security, or related fields.
Nice to have
- Eight plus years' demonstrated proficiency in malware analysis (static/dynamic), incident handling, and reverse engineering.
Compensation
- Pay Range $107,900.00 - $195,050.00 The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary.
- Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with 47,000 global employees, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $17.2 billion for the fiscal year ended January 2, 2026.
- Pay and Benefits Pay and benefits are fundamental to any career decision.
- That's why we craft compensation packages that reflect the importance of the work we do for our customers.
- Employment benefits include competitive compensation, Health and Wellness programs, Income Protection, Paid Leave and Retirement.
Company info
- Everything we do is built on a commitment to do the right thing for our customers, our people, and our community.
- At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo - because the mission demands it.
- Leidos Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations.
Visa & Work Authorization
- fied applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregna
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