PUNCH Cyber Analytics Group

PUNCH Cyber Analytics Group (PUNCH) is a Virginia-based, small business founded in 2012 operating as a cohesive team that incorporates the sum of our group’s diverse skills, talents, and resources toward our collective passion: advancing data analytics to impact cyber operations. PUNCH is a two-time Inc. Magazine ‘Best Workplaces’ awardee offering unique benefits and personal touches to provide a positive work-life experience for our team. PUNCH brings unique qualifications, resources, and past-performance that make us suitable to address the goals of our diverse customer-base. Further, we have past and current experience supporting cyber operations and cyber ML-based research, with well over 100 years of collective experience from our collaborative, multi-disciplinary team.

Responsibilities

• Strong Network Analysis Background: Hands-on experience analyzing PCAPs and network traffic to identify suspicious activity, potential misconfigurations, anomalous behavior, and other security or operational issues.
• Solid Networking Fundamentals: Strong understanding of TCP/IP, common network protocols, routing, switching, and how enterprise networks operate.
• Technical Team Leadership: Capable of leading a deployed team of network analysts, providing technical guidance, troubleshooting issues, and participating directly in analysis activities.
• Mission Staffing and Coordination: Able to select and organize personnel for multiple customer-directed missions, including coordinating travel and deployments with as little as one week’s notice.
• Customer-Facing Communication: Comfortable interacting with government customers, discussing technical findings, providing status updates, and delivering quarterly PowerPoint briefings.
• Organization and Deliverable Management: Able to track team activities, manage competing priorities, and prepare accurate monthly contract deliverables.
• Adaptability and Travel: Willing and able to deploy alongside the team, work in unfamiliar customer environments, and adjust to changing mission requirements.
• Additional Technical Skills (Nice to Have): Linux administration, network sensor deployment, network hardware installation, and data center experience.
• Relevant Operational Experience (Nice to Have): Prior experience with military Cyber Protection Teams (CPTs), defensive cyber operations, network assessments, or similar deployable technical teams.
• Relevant certs: Network+, Security+, CCNA