Open Source Intelligence Investigator

SOSi

Open Source Intelligence Investigator

Reston, VA
Full Time
Paid
  • Responsibilities

    Job Description

    Overview

    SOS International LLC (SOSi) is seeking an Open-Source Intelligence Investigator who will possess a sophisticated understanding of online social media and associated tradecraft and use that expertise to produce in-depth analysis and other related analytical products for the customer. The analyst must have operational targeting experience, senior to expert-level technical/IT tradecraft; preferred familiarity with force protection, protective intelligence, CI or insider threat experience.

    Essential Job Duties

    • Conduct online research using industry best practices for misattribution techniques, with a strong understanding of internet footprint/presence and digital fingerprints.
    • Consolidate research findings to augment and support ongoing protective intelligence efforts in client spaces, with a strong focus on essential targeting elements of information that enable follow-on actions.
    • Leverage open-source collection techniques to provide reports.
    • Write protective intelligence assessments and respond appropriately to requests for information for dissemination to the customer.
    • Produce intelligence products by researching, querying, and compiling information from large data sets.
    • Use advanced OSINT and social media collection and analysis techniques to support information requests concerning force protection, indications and warnings, counter threats, counterintelligence, and all source intelligence integration and assessments.
    • Assemble, analyze, and prioritize open-source material into protective intelligence and force protection assessments.
    • Prepare and present intelligence collection assessments and briefings to customers and advise key leadership of force protection concerns and provide timely Indications and Warnings that challenge current force protection postures.
    • Provide trends and analysis of social media landscape.
    • Provide consultation on how to leverage OSINT data and information, use specialized OSINT tools and services, and consult on the development of OSINT products.
  • Qualifications

    Qualifications

    Minimum Requirements

    • Active in-scope TS/SCI with Polygraph.
    • Fifteen years of relevant experience OR a SME in a specific field.
    • Ability to brief protective intelligence packages to tactical and operational IC leadership.
    • Knowledge of targeting tools and methodologies used in the IC.
    • Experience with accessing, researching, and exploiting global and regional social media and digital platforms.
    • Knowledge of advanced Internet-based research, including Boolean logic, advanced research techniques, search engine and database resources, and Internet sources, including social media, social networking tools, and commercial and industry-based databases.
    • Ability to quickly process and organize large amounts of information and identify and assess items of greatest importance.
    • Keen understanding of Open-Source environment.
    • Strong understanding of Deep and Dark Web.
    • Strong understanding of how to use mobile applications.
    • Demonstrated comfort with information technology and multimedia software, including publishing and analytics tools.
    • Experience with Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

    Preferred Qualifications

    • Bachelor's degree.
    • Familiarity with force protection, protective intelligence, CI or insider threat experience.

    Additional Information

    Work Environment

    • Hybrid work environment, with expectations to seamlessly work on a daily/weekly basis at customer site and corporate site to complete job duties as assigned.
    • Normal office working conditions with possible requirement to lift and/or move objects or packages of up to 25 lbs.
    • Periods of non-traditional working hours including consecutive nights or weekends when necessary (infrequent).

    Working at SOSi

    All interested individuals will receive consideration and will not be discriminated against for any reason.