Desired Skills and Experience
- BS with eight (8) years or MS with five (5) years of applicable experience. Your concentration of study should be in computer science, software engineering, computer engineering, or a related quantitative field of study.
- Willingness to travel to visit other offices and attend conferences and training. Moderate travel (15%).
- You will be subject to a background check and will need to obtain and maintain a Department of Defense security clearance.
- Experience applying security best practices and understanding of assessing risks to IT networks.
- Understanding of the latest techniques for data pipelines involving collection, messaging, and processing frameworks.
- Hands-on experience with the Linux and basic networking.
- Have proven the ability to work independently addressing problems as they arise and driving projects to completion.
- The ability to work meticulously with careful attention to detail; ability to meet deadlines while working on multiple tasks – sometimes under pressure and with shifting priorities; ability to deal collaboratively, diplomatically, and successfully with customers, co-workers and other professional colleagues, managers, and staff;
- Understanding of how a security operation center (SOC) works and how to analyze logs and traffic to identify potential security incidents.
- Exposure to machine learning and other advanced data analytic methods.
- Experience with Kafka, Hadoop, Spark, Bro, Logstash, or Elasticsearch.
- Knowledge in programming with Python, Scala, C, or Java.