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OPEN SOURCE INTELLIGENCE INVESTIGATOR

SOS International LLC
Herndon, VA Full Time
POSTED ON 3/3/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/29/2025

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.

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.
  • 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.

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