Data Analytics Engineer

**Only apply if you have at least an active secret clearance**

Job Title: Data Mining and Analytics Engineer with Cyber threats experience

Job Location: Hybrid and needs onsite 2 days in Arlington, VA
Duration: Full-time

Qualifications:

•Active secret security clearance required as part of client contract requirements
•Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or a related field

Job Summary:

The client seeks a Data Mining and Analytics Engineer to support the research and development of new cyber analytic capabilities that will help the US protect and defend its networks and critical information systems. The successful cleared candidate will act as a Data Mining and Analytics Engineer to support a large federal cyber security analytic program. Your work will contribute to the knowledge of how cyber-attacks work, how vulnerabilities are exploited, and the way hostile cyber actors operate. Utilize your skills to help experiment and prototype future cyber capabilities for implementation at a large scale.
As the Data Mining and Analytics Engineer, your skillset will create useful and actionable insight for the customer through the development of analytic solutions (hardware, analytics, tools, techniques, practices, deployment, standards, performance specifications, etc.) for analytic use cases developed during the performance of this project. You will work closely with the Analytics Research team to identify platform enhancements that support the forward-looking analytics under consideration. The ideal candidate has extensive knowledge of a wide variety of systems and networks including high-volume/high-availability systems. You are focused on results, a self-starter, and have demonstrated success in using analytics to drive the analysis's understanding, growth, and success. This role is primarily telework-based with occasional meetings at client locations (Arlington, VA) or facilities within the National Capital Region.

Job Responsibilities:

•Perform knowledge elicitation from customer subject matter experts and convert that to build analytic solutions
•Design, engineer, and optimize sustainment of large-scale distributed computation platforms and supporting environments (ecosystems) for various stakeholders, business owners, and industry partners
•Oversee the transition of services from third-party vendors to the analytic environment and be responsible for ad hoc and formal end-user training
•Identify applicable data to perform analytics and create solutions to acquire, transform, and load or correlate data components to and from the analytic environment
•Develop custom data modeling procedures to assist with data mining, modeling, and production
•Assess the effectiveness and accuracy of new data sources and data-gathering techniques
•Develop processes and tools to monitor and analyze model performance and data accuracy
•Interpret and communicate results to non-technical customers

Job Required Skills:

•Active secret security clearance required as part of client contract requirements
•Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or a related field
•US Citizenship required as part of client contract requirements
•Practical working experience and advanced knowledge of cyber threats, tools, techniques, and processes.
•Experience in data modeling and working with datasets of all sizes using a variety of data mining and data analysis methods/tools