Data Science Cyber Systems Engineer

About the role

The Cyber Data Science Engineer supports the customer in the area of Cyber Security. Daily tasks include analyzing data sets from vulnerability scanning, authorization, and configuration management tools, transforming data into usable sets for analysis tools like Tableau, providing analysis and graphical presentations for IA compliance status reports, and collaborating with the Heat Map team to simplify and automate current tools.

Responsibilities

• Support Designated Authorizing Official Representative (DAO-R) and ConMon Validators in compliance decisions by analyzing data sets from the customer's tools
• Import and transform data into usable sets for analysis tools such as Tableau
• Provide analysis and graphical presentations of collected metrics for IA compliance status reporting
• Simplify and automate legacy visualization and situational awareness tools based on Microsoft Excel
• Collaborate with the Heat Map team to investigate options for simplification and automation

Requirements

• Current U.S. Government Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility
• Favorably adjudicated Polygraph
• Bachelor of Science Degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) or an advanced IA certification (CISSP or CASP)
• DoD 8570 certification in IAT or IAM
• Knowledge of and experience with RMF policies
• Excellent communications skills (verbal and non-verbal)
• Office Automation Skills (MS Office, MS Project, Visio)
• Self-starter requiring limited direction and supervision
• Strong analytic and risk management skills
• Strong attention to detail
• Ability to work in a team environment
• Experience with data visualization tools (Tableau, Infogram, Chartbloks)
• Experience with data transformation (structured data format/schema transformation) using common programming tools (Python, JSON, etc.)
• Experience applying statistical analysis to large data sets

Qualifications

• Required:
• - Current U.S. Government Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility
• - Favorably adjudicated Polygraph
• - Bachelor of Science Degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) or an advanced IA certification (CISSP or CASP)
• - DoD 8570 certification in IAT or IAM
• - Knowledge of and experience with RMF policies
• - Excellent communications skills (both verbal and non-verbal)
• - Office Automation Skills (MS Office, MS Project, Visio)
• - Self-starter requiring limited direction and supervision
• - Strong analytic and risk management skills
• - Strong attention to detail
• - Ability to work in a team environment
• - Experience with data visualization tools (Tableau, Infogram, Chartbloks)
• - Experience with data transformation (structured data format/schema transformation) using common programming tools (Python, JSON, etc.)
• - Experience applying statistical analysis to large data sets
• Desired:
• - Experience briefing senior customer personnel
• - Ability to organize and prioritize numerous customer requests in a fast-paced deadline-driven environment
• - Familiarity with Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• - Familiarity with customer's IA processes
• - Experience with ServiceNow and Splunk
• - Experience supporting IC or DoD in the Cyber Security Domain
• - Familiarity with the RMF process
• - Experience with Relational Database Management System (RDMS)
• - Experience with Apache Hadoop and the Hadoop Distributed File System
• - Experience with Amazon Elastic MapReduce (EMR) and SageMaker
• - Experience with Machine Learning or Artificial Intelligence