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Principal Threat Analyst, Mandiant, Intelligence Services

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Reston, VAJob$168–243K/yrPosted 3w agoStill listed 1 day ago

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Compensation
$168–243K/yr
Location
Reston, VA
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Requirements

Credentials this posting asks for.

TS/SCI clearance

Job overview

The Principal Threat Analyst will support Mandiant’s Advanced Intelligence Access program by investigating risks, delivering intelligence to clients, and advising them on security decisions. The role uses data and cybersecurity expertise to identify threats, connect intelligence to tracked activity, and communicate findings to strategic, operational, and tactical audiences. It requires onsite client-facing work in Reston, Virginia two to four days per week, with travel up to 25% internationally.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Cyber SecurityCyber Threat IntelligenceNetwork ForensicsIncident ResponseData AnalysisOperations SecurityCybersecurityCustomer-Facing InvestigationsStakeholder PresentationsCTI MethodologiesCTI AnalysisMonitoringDetectionResponse CapabilitiesIntrusion OperationsEnterprise Security ControlsLog AnalysisNetwork Flow AnalysisTraffic AnalysisIncident Response ProcessesCyber Attack LifecyclesCyber Attack ModelsSecurity OperationsThreat HuntingIT Compliance

Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent Practical Experience8 Years Customer-Facing Cybersecurity ExperienceTop Secret/SCI Clearance With Current PolygraphAbility to Travel Up to 25% InternationallyEnglish Proficiency

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info_outline XThis position requires onsite client-facing work two to four days a week in Reston, VA.Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following:

Remote locations: Virginia, USA; District of Columbia, USA; Maryland, USA.

Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

  • 8 years of experience in a customer-facing investigative role in cyber security (e.g., Network Forensics Analyst, Threat Intelligence Analyst).

  • Experience engaging with, and presenting to, technical stakeholders and executive leaders.

  • Must possess an active Top Secret/SCI security clearance with current polygraph.

  • Ability to travel up to 25% internationally.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Experience with CTI methodologies and application within cyber security organizations.

  • Experience in the analysis of CTI, supporting monitoring, detection, and response capabilities.

  • Experience in using tools for analysis such as intrusion operations, enterprise security controls, log analysis, network flow and traffic analysis, incident response processes, cyber attack lifecycles and models.

  • Experience in security operations (SOC), incident response, threat hunting, IT compliance or equivalent.

About the job You will use data to solve investigative problems and deliver results under pressure. As a Principal Analyst in our Advanced Intelligence Access (AIA) program, you will be a trusted advisor, providing clients with direct access to GTIG's comprehensive risk intelligence, including raw data. Your experience will empower clients to make informed decisions and take action, ensuring their security and operational resilience. In this client-facing role, you will also serve as a bridge to GTIG's vast network of cybersecurity, risk intelligence, and information operations professionals. You will use your experience with governmental objectives to prioritize tasks, demonstrate measurable impact, and communicate professionally.

Part of Google Cloud, Mandiant is a recognized leader in dynamic cyber defense, threat intelligence and incident response services. Mandiant's cybersecurity expertise has earned the trust of security professionals and company executives around the world. Our unique combination of renowned frontline experience responding to some of the most complex breaches, nation-state grade threat intelligence, machine intelligence, and the industry's best security validation ensures that Mandiant knows more about today's advanced threats than anyone.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

US: $168000 - $243000 (USD) + 20% bonus target + equity + benefits

Learn more about benefits at Google. Responsibilities

  • Develop and apply problem-solving techniques to data sets to perform continuous hunting activities within customer environments for previously unidentified risks.

  • Utilize Mandiant and supported vendor technologies to conduct investigations and examine endpoint and network-based sources of evidence.

  • Apply CTI research, analysis, and report writing skills to service strategic, operational, and tactical audiences.

  • Correlate intelligence to develop deeper understandings of tracked threat activity.

  • Ultilize tools and best practices for tracking advanced threats, tools, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) of attacker’s motivations, and industry and attacker trends.

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How this job compares

Set against the 863 open Security Analyst jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 6, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$168–243K/yr
  • Virginia median$112–160K/yr54 salary ranges
  • US median$90–139K/yr555 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $206K, is 51% above the Virginia median midpoint ($136K) — in the top quarter of Security Analyst salary ranges in Virginia.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 82 open Security Analyst jobs in Virginia and 863 across the US. 8% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Virginia
Experience
This posting asks for at least 8 years of experience — more than three in four Security Analyst postings that state a minimum ask for (median 4 years, across 663 postings).
Education
184 of the 863 open Security Analyst jobs (21%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 6, 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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