Databricks Security Engineer Senior

ICF International seeks an experienced and cleared Senior Databricks Security Engineer with cyber security experience 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. This essential role will 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 Senior Databricks Security Engineer, you will work with our customers, program subject matter experts, and researchers to evolve, automate, and enhance cybersecurity capabilities. Additionally, you will provide support to a variety of teams and apply data engineering and visualization expertise (most often in the form of dashboards) to their raw data or analytic results. 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 ICF!

This role is primarily telework-based with occasional meetings at client locations (Arlington, VA or Pensacola, FL) or ICF facilities within the National Capital Region (Washington, DC Metro area).

What You Will Be Doing:

• 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
• Work closely with cyber personnel to understand manual analytic processes that are used to assist in the automation of those processes
• Advise on data preparation, implementation of techniques, visualizations, and employment of analytics developed by ICF and customer partners
• Assess requirements, interpret data, perform data cleaning and enrichment, create insights, and provide an initial visual design and intent for usability
• Create visual analytics and dashboards in support of automated analytic capability sets (e.g., signature, behavioral, heuristic, anomalous, unsupervised-learning, predictive, and emerging)
• Support the design, development, and deployment of visual analytics adhering to the Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipeline
• Post-deployment support of continuous analysis through the full lifecycle of the capabilities

What You Must Have:

• Activehigh-level security clearance required as part of client contract requirements
• US Citizenship required as part of client contract requirements
• Bachelor’s degree with 12+ or Master’s degree with 10+ years of experience in IT, Cyber, or related field
• Demonstrated practical hands-on experience with the Databricks Intelligence Platform
• Strong understanding of the Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework (OCSF) and DevSecOps
• Experience in developing analytic tools, processes, and governance for storing, modeling, capturing, and delivering data to the client’s enterprise
• Practical working experience and advanced knowledge of cyber threats, tools, techniques, and processes
• Strong experience in data modeling and working with datasets of all sizes using a variety of data mining and data analysis methods/tools

Preferred Qualifications:

• Interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate effectively with various clients in order to explain and elaborate on technical details
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Experience within some or all of these capability areas: Intrusion Detection, Analytics, Information Sharing, Intrusion Prevention, Core Infrastructure
• Experience with additional Business Intelligence tools and other visualization software
• Fluency in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, JavaScript, R, etc.)
• Experience with database querying like SQL
• Experience producing visual analytics and dashboards for a variety of user roles
• Knowledge of Linux/Unix and Windows operating systems security
• Knowledge of computer programming and scripting languages
• Practical experience with the Databricks Intelligence Platform
• CompTIA Security+ or higher certification level preferred
• Databricks Intelligence Platform certification

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Pay Range - There are multiple factors that are considered in determining final pay for a position, including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and competencies that align to the specified role, geographic location, education and certifications as well as contract provisions regarding labor categories that are specific to the position.

The pay range for this position based on full-time employment is:

$107,936.00 - $183,491.00Virginia Remote Office (VA99)