Data Mining And Analytics Engineer

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Description

Missing Link Security is a government contractor with a mission to secure the nation's information by increasing awareness, countering threats, mitigating risk, and enforcing compliance. We employ people who are passionate about the security of our country, our communities, and our information systems. If you are a skilled Data Mining and Analytics Engineer looking to join a dynamic and innovative team, we encourage you to apply to our open position.

Clearance: Secret

Office Location: Arlington, VA

Remote: 65%

Travel: up to 5%

Job Description - Data Mining and Analytics Engineer

Missing Link Security 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 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 to include high-volume/high-availability systems. You are focused on results, a self-starter, and have demonstrated success for using analytics to drive the understanding, growth, and success of the analysis. This is an opportunity to contribute to an important project from its beginning, work with the latest and emerging technologies, and all while building a great career at MLS!

This role is primarily telework-based with occasional meetings at client locations (Arlington, VA) or facilities within the National Capital Region.

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 environment (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.

Requirements

• Active secret security clearance required as part of client contract requirements.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or 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.

Preferred Skills/Experience

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or related field.

• Interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate effectively with various clients in order to explain and elaborate on technical details.

• Experience in developing analytic tools, processes, and governance for storing, modeling, capturing, and delivering data to the client's enterprise.

• Experience with computational notebook software such as Zeppelin or Jupyter.

• Experience with the application of visual analytics to computational analytic results.

• Fluency in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, JavaScript, R, etc.).

• Experience with database querying like SQL.

• Readiness to collaborate with engineering teams, product teams, and customers to develop prototypes and software products.

• Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) experience.

• Amazon Web Services (AWS) Certified Cloud Practitioner or higher desired.

• CompTIA Security+ or higher cybersecurity certification preferred.

Missing Link Security does not discriminate in employment opportunities, terms, and conditions of employment, or practices on the basis of race, age, gender, religious or political beliefs, national origin or heritage, disability, sexual orientation, or any characteristic protected by law.