AddressResponsibilities
Peraton is currently seeking an experienced Cybersecurity Data Engineerto become part of Peraton’s Department of State (DoS) Diplomatic Security Cyber Mission (DSCM) program providing leading cyber and technology security experience to enable innovative, effective and secure business processes. Peraton’s DSCM program encompasses technical, engineering, data analytics, cyber security, management, operational, logistical and administrative support to aid and advise DoS Cyber & Technology Security (CTS) Directorate.
Location: Hybrid after 90-days in Rosslyn, VA
What you’ll do:
- Develop Extract Transform and Load (ETL) processes in support of ingesting and normalizing logs into a data lake.
- Meet with stakeholders to design the formatting standards for logs.
- Implement conversion capabilities to map and enrich data into the agreed upon format.
- Develop processes/code to enrich data on ingest to support users use cases.
- Utilize tools like Cribl to develop data packs that can be used for future data feeds.
- Lead other engineers in the development efforts for the ETL processes.
- Provide continuous updates to data normalizing processes to ensure logs continue to support end users desired format.
- Support systems issues to ensure the functionality and performance of log ingest and transformation.
- Assist in verifying the compatibility of updates with existing configurations and applications.
Additional or occasional asks to assist with one or more of the following:
- Consult with customer to gather and evaluate technical and business requirements in support of cyber monitoring.
- Work with system owners to validate and support configurations for log transfer.
- Provide technical expertise on cloud cluster computing techniques and technologies and expert advice to the program, and related cloud computing architectures.
- Develop large data technologies, algorithms, and applications for clients.
- Research, evaluate, and deploy advanced cloud computing systems and large data analytics for clients in research and production areas.
- Work with massive data sets, complex algorithms, and team members from a variety of specialties to solve clients’ hardest problems.
- Support a range of clients from front line analysts to researchers and senior leadership.
- Work as a key contributor on a collaborative, and highly skilled team.
- Experience with information extraction and analysis techniques, practices, and algorithms.
#DSCM
Qualifications
Minimum Requirements:
- A Bachelor’s of Science degree and 9 years of experience; 7 years of experience with a Master’s. An additional 4 years of experience will be considered in lieu of degree.
- Possess one of the following certifications, or be able to obtain before start date: CASP+ CE, CCNA Cyber Ops, CCNA-Security, CCNP Security, CEH, CFR, CISA, CISSP (or Associate), Cloud+, CySA+, GCED, GCIA, GCIH, GICSP,or SCYBER.
- Sufficient background and experience to perform technical planning, system integration, verification and validation, cost and risk, and supportability and effectiveness analyses for total systems.
- U.S. citizenship with an active Secret security clearance to start. A final Top Secret/SCI clearance is required.
Preferred/Desired:
- Experience working in an Azure environment
- Knowledge of deploying infrastructure as code.
- Experience working with Cribl
- Experience with RegEx, Python or other capability to manipulate logs
Peraton Overview
Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can’t be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we’re keeping people around the world safe and secure.
