Dark Web/Crypto Currency Analyst

Title:  Dark Web/Crypto Currency Analyst

Location: Falls Church, VA or Chantilly, VA

Security Clearance:  Top Secret Clearance desired

Schedule: Due to the nature of law enforcement work and operation, position may require occasional support outside of core working hours, as well as intermittent weekend support, mission dependent

About KACE:

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KACE employees are; purpose driven, forward focused, open-minded, trustworthy, and invested.

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Job Summary:

The Dark Web Analyst supports the program agnostic Analytics Group within National Headquarters and conducts open-source analysis to identify and develop intelligence on targets operating on the clear and dark webs for all Inspection Service investigations.

The analyst provides actionable intelligence through cryptocurrency tracking and analysis, open source and dark web intelligence and social media analysis, geospatial mapping and data visualization, and USPS backend and network data exploitation.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:


* Experience in open or all source intelligence gathering and analysis.


* Ability to work independently and as part of a team.


* Ability to manage multiple projects and tasks with competing priorities and meet deliverables.


* Demonstrated experience in using cyber intelligence tools and software tools to actively search and mine the publicly available Internet and the dark net/deep web.


* Advanced understanding of the methods used by cyber-criminals to hide themselves on the Internet, how the cyber-criminals conduct online business and what are the various marketplaces and forums the cyber- criminals operate within.


* Ability to use technology solutions to actively search, analyze and prioritize the various marketplaces and cyber-criminals to identify high value targets, analyze and trace cryptocurrency.


* Ability to conduct analyses and research and to report results using tabular, pictorial or graphical techniques.


* Demonstrated experience in visual tools such as Qlik, Microstrategy, Tableau and/or i2 Analyst Notebook. 


* Ability to provide summary and detailed results to various levels of an organization in formats which are easy to understand; showing conclusions and relationships.


* Evaluate Internet information from social media, chats, forums, dark net, TOR network, news feeds, internet relay chats cryptocurrency and blockchain data, and ...