Cybersecurity Ops Analyst Sr
Fort Meade, MDJob$120–160K/yrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today
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Job overview
SAIC seeks a senior Cybersecurity Operations Analyst to support a joint contractor-government team at Fort Meade. The role focuses on cyber threat intelligence, incident response, threat analysis, and investigations for customer missions and deployable response teams. The analyst will assess threats, correlate data from multiple sources, produce written intelligence reports, and brief senior military leaders.
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Description
SAIC is seeking a candidate to fill a Cybersecurity Ops Analyst Sr. position on a joint Contractor-Government Team with our customer at Ft. Meade, MD . Candidate shall perform cyber threat intelligence, draft Indicators of Compromise products, computer network defense, Incident Response, Threat Analysis, and Cyber Investigations in support of the customer's aligned missions and deployable Incident Response Teams.
Job Duties:
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Demonstrated familiarity with intelligence tradecraft, cyber threat intelligence methodologies, and cyber threat frameworks (MITRE ATT&CK, Cyber Kill Chain, etc.).
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Demonstrated strong writing and briefing skills; experience delivering reports to senior leadership.
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Conduct threat analysis utilizing various sources to identify threats.
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Conduct analysis of and determine relevancy of threats and cyber threat landscape, and articulate recommendations for mitigating and detecting threats.
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Produce IC standard written reports and provide verbal briefings to senior military leaders.
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Collection, aggregation, and interpretation of log data from various sources.
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Correlation of data from multiple sources, including host, network, user, and intelligence reports, to uncover threats.
Qualifications
Required Education and Experience:
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Bachelors and five (5) years or more experience; four (4) additional years of work experience accepted in lieu of degree.
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Experience with Big Data Platform, Joint Cyber Warfare Architecture (JCWA) Common Runtime Stack for Data (JCRS-D).
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Experience in network analysis using PCAP, network metadata, and security logs.
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Experience using AI.
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Expertise in adversarial cyber actors, historical cyber activity, and the current cyber landscape.
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Experience conducting research on classified systems and utilizing open-source cyber resources.
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Previous experience in a government, military, or intelligence community (IC) role.
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Structured Query Language.
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Detection Engineering.
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Zero Trust Architecture.
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Cloud computing.
Required Security Clearance:
- An active TS/SCI with a CI Poly is required upon starting. Polygraph must have been completed in the last (5) five years.
Desired Qualifications:
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Active industry cyber security and/or technical certifications such as Global Information Assurance Certification (GIAC).
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Government facilitated cyber training would also be considered here.
Target salary range: $120,001 - $160,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.
REQNUMBER: 2618748
SAIC is a premier technology integrator, solving our nation's most complex modernization and systems engineering challenges across the defense, space, federal civilian, and intelligence markets. Our robust portfolio of offerings includes high-end solutions in systems engineering and integration; enterprise IT, including cloud services; cyber; software; advanced analytics and simulation; and training. We are a team of 23,000 strong driven by mission, united purpose, and inspired by opportunity. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $6.5 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For information on the benefits SAIC offers, see Working at SAIC. EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability
How this job compares
Set against the 1,051 open Cybersecurity Analyst jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 5, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$120–160K/yr
- Maryland median$106–171K/yr64 salary ranges
- US median$104–155K/yr713 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $140K, is 4% below the Maryland median midpoint ($145K) — in the middle half of Cybersecurity Analyst salary ranges in Maryland.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 78 open Cybersecurity Analyst jobs in Maryland and 1,051 across the US. 5% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Maryland
- Leidos11 open
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 5 years of experience; Cybersecurity Analyst postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (869 postings).
- Education
- 229 of the 1,051 open Cybersecurity Analyst jobs (22%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 5, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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