Cybersecurity Data Engineer

Cybersecurity Data Engineer

Job Category: Science

Time Type: Full time

Minimum Clearance Required to Start: None

Employee Type: Regular

Percentage of Travel Required: None

Type of Travel: None

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What You’ll Get to Do

CACI is seeking a Data Engineer with experience in cybersecurity and machine learning to support cybersecurity data collection, analysis, and mitigation.  The work will include support for cybersecurity-related projects that encompass automated event identification and incident response, cybersecurity implementation into a Splunk data-lake, analysis of data derived from cybersecurity tools and use the results of that analysis towards developing enhanced and automated queries, and preparation of presentation materials for Government managers.

This position will support the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) Program’s mission to safeguard and secure cyberspace in an environment where the threat of cyber-attack is continuously growing and evolving and is responsible for enhancing the security, resilience, and reliability of the Nation’s cyber and communications infrastructure.  The CDM Program defends the United States (U.S.) Federal Information Technology (IT) networks from cybersecurity threats by providing continuous monitoring sensors (tools), diagnosis, mitigation tools, and associated services to strengthen the security posture of Government networks.

You will work as a part of the Data Analysis and Data Management team to assist with Data Analysis and Data Quality Management activities, and the creation and update of CDM supporting documents/deliverables for CDM capabilities,  working alongside the integration and operations teams. The engineer will also work with the Integration Layer Architecture to develop an approach for expanding the scope of the existing data integration layer to accommodate data from an expanded set of data sources and data fields, as a part of a future solution deployment. You will also continue to ensure the quality of the data deployed into the Elastic Dashboard.

This is a remote position where the candidate can work from any location within the United States, provided they are able to work on an eastern time zone schedule.

More About the Role

• Work with internal and external stakeholders to examine contractual data requirements in order to drive data modeling, pipelines, transformation, normalization, and quality
• Provide expertise regarding data requirements, formats, types, lineage, and quality to brief internal and external stakeholders
• Ensure Cybersecurity principals and best practices are followed while confirming accuracy and improving the overall data quality for CDM
• Analyze raw data from different sources and define consistent and machine-readable formats for the data store
• Develop, document, and communicate processes for seamless data ETL (extraction, transformation, and loading) through Cloud based data services
• Prepare options, levels of effort, and estimates when data requirements change
• Suggest where automation can improve processes and gain efficiencies
• Ensure data integrity, quality, and accessibility within the repository/lake
• Conduct complex data analysis using SQL based searches and instruct developers on how to handle data quality issues
• Explore and implement ways to enhance data quality and reliability and use tools to develop analytical dashboards
• Work with Data Scientists to improve the quality and accuracy of the information enabling stakeholders to make more responsible cyber risk decisions
• Develop and maintain the solution’s data dictionary and data lineage
• Collaborate with technical teams to recommend and implement data governance and data quality improvement initiatives.
• Perform data profiling and analysis to identify data anomalies, inconsistencies, and areas for improvement.
• Stay abreast of emerging trends and advancements in data governance and data quality management to continuously enhance the CDM program.
• Identifies, defines, and addresses problems that are not immediately evident and could be complex.
• Preparation of metrics, reports, briefings, and documentation of deliverables.
• Prepare and document standard operating procedures and protocols for all designed and developed solutions that ensures detailed project documentation

You’ll Bring These Qualifications

• Must be a US citizen and pass a background investigation.
• Able to obtain and maintain a Department of Homeland Security (DHS)