Lead Data Scientist
$102K-$164K (Glassdoor est.)
Position Title: Lead Data Scientist

Department: Government Services – DISA

Status: Full-Time, Regular, Exempt
Location: Silver Spring, MD

Position Summary:

As a Lead Data Scientist, you will lead a data science team in the integration of data science best practices into existing security operations. Manage data science operations around organizing, examining, and improving operational data feeds. Discover, analyze and track advanced adversary cyber campaigns, assess the threat implications and overall risk those campaigns may pose to particular sectors, customers, and networks. Fuse internally derived and externally available cyber threat intelligence into techniques, analytics, and methodologies intended to detect and track advanced threats. Develop engineering design and architecture, use case and code documentation. Identify opportunities for applying data science to problems or concerns of the customer. Determine appropriate workflow for various data science tasks.

Key Duties & Responsibilities:
Work with the customer to understand their cyber needs and help formalize requirements to attain the level of automation needed.
Work with the customer to ensure a consistent tenable cyber strategy for accomplishing their mission goals.
Work with analytic developers and data scientists to automate threat detection, analysis, and tracking of the threat actors and TTPs.
Support managed security services and incident response efforts by providing threat research and expertise when requested. Ensure that network defenders have sufficient contextual threat knowledge to take corrective action.
Perform data mining, data cleaning, data exploration, feature engineering, predictive modeling and data visualization.
Analyze and conduct research using network and security data collected for clients.
Present findings to the client, and in other ways as appropriate such as via customer on-site visits, tech exchanges, conferences, trade publications and academic journals. Findings presented may include insights from data (anomalies, trends, etc.), programs, processes and procedures.
Manage cyber security focused data scientists and foster their continued technical development.
Be responsible for timely and accurate completion of other tasks as defined by the manager.
Required Skills and Qualifications:
10 years of experience in at least one of the following engineering disciplines:
computer engineering, communication engineering, network engineering, systems engineering, data science
Bachelor's degree in Information Security, Computer Science or other IT-related technical curriculum from an accredited institution (or Associate's degree + 4 years relevant experience OR 6 years relevant experience)
Be able to answer how you apply data science to cyber security! This will be a question asked during the interview process and all candidates should come prepared with their own perspective that they can articulate, defend, and customize to unique constraints which may or may not be adjusted based on strategic vision of the customer’s organization and data gathering strategies.
Advanced understanding of IT security concepts and controls
Knowledge of tools and methods used in both targeted intrusions and large scale attacks.
Experience with or capability to acquire knowledge of data transport, data conversion, and ingest solutions.
Knowledge of network protocols, including DNS, BGP, RDP, SNMP, etc.
Experience with or capability to acquire knowledge of any cyber security tools such as SIEM, Nessus, Splunk, Retina, Sourcefire, HBSS, Noesis, Wireshark, and full-packet capture solutions.
Ability to analyze raw data and create actionable intelligence, indicators of compromise, and detection and mitigation plans.
Strong communication skills and the ability to present complex technical topics to a range of audiences in clear and easy to understand language (both verbal and written).
Strong teamwork and interpersonal skills, including the ability to work with a globally distributed team.
Experience with self-documentation practices utilizing products such as; MS Visio, MS Project, JIRA, Wiki Articles, and creating Standard Operating Procedures (SOP’s) using MS Word is a plus.
Experience in both static (C, C++, Java, Scala, etc.) as well as dynamic (Python, Ruby, etc.) programming languages is a plus.
Must possess an active Secret or higher security clearance, Top Secret preferred.
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Disclaimer

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