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You have been redirected to RTX’s career page as we have recently transitioned from RTX to become a standalone company, which provides us with greater autonomy and opportunities for growth. As a prospective employee of Nightwing, you’ll have the chance to contribute to our continued success and shape the future of our cybersecurity, intelligence, and services offerings.

Nightwing provides technically advanced full-spectrum cyber, data operations, systems integration and intelligence mission support services to meet our customers’ most demanding challenges. Our capabilities include cyber space operations, cyber defense and resiliency, vulnerability research, ubiquitous technical surveillance, data intelligence, lifecycle mission enablement, and software modernization. Nightwing brings disruptive technologies, agility, and competitive offerings to customers in the intelligence community, defense, civil, and commercial spanets.

Nightwing is supporting a U.S. Government customer to provide support for onsite incident response to civilian Government agencies and critical asset owners who experience cyber-attacks, providing immediate investigation and resolution.  Contract personnel perform investigations to characterize of the severity of breaches, develop mitigation plans, and assist with the restoration of services.  Nightwing is seeking a Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst to support this critical customer mission. 

Responsibilities:

• Proactively gather, analyze, and disseminate timely and accurate CTI to support operational decision-making
• Identify emerging cyber threats, vulnerabilities, trends, and recommend countermeasures
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to mitigate cyber threats
• Improve VM capabilities and knowledge base through training and research
• Ingest and analyze information from various classified and unclassified sources
• Produce written reports summarizing gathered CTI
• Conduct in-person and virtual briefings on vulnerabilities or threat actors
• Identify intelligence gaps, specify collection requirements to fill gaps in information, and evaluate resulting intelligence requirements

Required Skills:

• U.S. Citizenship
• Must have an active TS/SCI clearance
• Must be able to obtain DHS Suitability
• 5+ years of directly relevant experience
• Good understanding of intelligence analytical methods and sources
• Demonstrated ability to integrate cyber security related data from relevant sources into investigative or analytical products
• Ability to work within a multi-disciplined team
• Must be able to work collaboratively across agencies and physical locations
• Must have experience using multiple Intelligence Community database search tools and familiarity with intelligence monitoring, collection, targeting and reporting
• Must have working familiarity with Intelligence Community management of information, classification, dissemination and information and records system
• Must have working familiarity with Open-Source Intelligence sources including the use of scraping tools and darkweb browsers
• Must have sufficient technical knowledge to perform analysis on intelligence information to determine operational priorities

Desired Skills:

• Experience supporting Intelligence and/or DoD Customers
• Experience performing network security or application security
• Excellent verbal and writing skills

Required Education:
BS Intelligence, Cybersecurity or related degree, or High School Diploma and 7 years of directly relevant experience. 

Desired Certifications:

• Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH)
• CompTIA’s Security Plus (SEC+)
• Intelligence Analyst Certified (IAC)
• Certified Threat Intelligence Analyst (CTIA)

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Previously part of a leading Fortune 100 company and headquartered in Dulles, VA; Nightwing became independent in 2024 but continues to support the nation’s most mission impactful initiatives.

When we formed Nightwing, we brought a deep set of credentials and an unfaltering commitment to the mission. For over four decades, our team has been providing some of the world’s most technically advanced full-spectrum cyber, data operations, systems integration and intelligence support services to the U.S. government on its most important missions.

At Nightwing, we value collaboration and teamwork. You’ll have the opportunity to work alongside talented individuals who are passionate about what they do. Together, we’ll leverage our collective expertise to drive innovation, solve complex problems, and deliver exceptional results for our clients.

Thank you for considering joining us as we embark on this new journey and shape the future of cybersecurity and intelligence together as part of the Nightwing team.

The salary range for this role is 85,000 USD - 179,000 USD. The salary range provided is a good faith estimate representative of all experience levels. RTX considers several factors when extending an offer, including but not limited to, the role, function and associated responsibilities, a candidate’s work experience, location, education/training, and key skills.

Hired applicants may be eligible for benefits, including but not limited to, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts, flexible work schedules, employee assistance program, Employee Scholar Program, parental leave, paid time off, and holidays. Specific benefits are dependent upon the specific business unit as well as whether or not the position is covered by a collective-bargaining agreement.

Hired applicants may be eligible for annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs depending on the level of the position and whether or not it is covered by a collective-bargaining agreement. Payments under these annual programs are not guaranteed and are dependent upon a variety of factors including, but not limited to, individual performance, business unit performance, and/or the company’s performance.

This role is a U.S.-based role. If the successful candidate resides in a U.S. territory, the appropriate pay structure and benefits will apply.

RTX anticipates the application window closing approximately 40 days from the date the notice was posted. However, factors such as candidate flow and business necessity may require RTX to shorten or extend the application window.

RTX is An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, age or any other federally protected class.

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