Senior Cyber Security Data Scientist

Department: Engineering
Specialization: Security Engineer
Experience: Senior
Locations: USA
Client: Finra
Special referral bonus: No
Hot position?: Hot
Technical flow: Data Engineer Python
Engineering technical flow: Data Engineer Python
Non-engineering technical flow: none
  • What you will do

  • Enhancing data collection procedures to include information that is relevant for building analytic systems
  • Processing, cleansing, and verifying the integrity of data used for analysis
  • Define approaches for data mining
  • Extending company’s data with third party sources of information when needed
  • Doing ad-hoc analysis and R&D involving operating heterogeneous data sets
  • Creating automated anomaly detection systems and constant tracking of its performance
  • Must haves

  • PhD in Data Science, Computer Science, Statistics or other related fields
  • Real world experience of solving business problems using machine learning, data mining, data analysis
  • Data-oriented personality
  • Excellent understanding of machine learning techniques and algorithms
  • Experience with common data science toolkits (such as R, Weka, NumPy, MatLab, etc.)
  • Great communication skills
  • Experience with data visualization tools
  • Nice to haves

  • Collect Cyber Security Data, apply statistics, machine learning, big data and graph analysis techniques to address a variety of security problems including correlation between threats, anomalous behavior, prioritization of threats
  • Participate in the machine learning lifecycle including designing high quality AI/ML infrastructure and big data pipelines, writing production code, conducting code reviews
  • Evaluate latest software packages, open-source libraries, development environments etc
  • Develop and build test frameworks, test cases, reproducible experiments, and evaluation of various models for automated production deployment
  • Deploy models to cloud, support monitoring and framework for automation in cloud
  • Provide production support, environment support, troubleshooting and user suppor
  • Collaborate with Cyber & Information security stakeholders to get feedback/guidance on various solutions
  • Gain knowledge of cybersecurity testing methodologies (phishing, intrusion detection, vulnerability scanning, remote penetration testing, red/blue teams)
  • Get familiar with common tools & processes used in Cyber and Information security
  • Experience with open-source ML tools/frameworks
  • Experience with Libraries Pytorch and TensorFlow
  • Experience working in AWS environment
  • Experience operationalizing/scaling models in AWS environment
  • Experience in programming languages such as Python, SQL
  • Experience in working with datastores such as S3, RDS in AWS environment
  • Cyber Security knowledge is a huge plus
In the Market Regulation Surveillance Patterns technology team, an expert in this role is vested with responsibilities arising from FINRA’s mission to protect the integrity of US Securities Capital markets. FINRA has a portfolio of ‘surveillance patterns’ that look for manipulative and non-compliant behavior in the database of all transactions that occur in the stock market. The database itself consists of tens of billions of records per day. Engineers work with these large volumes of data using state-of-the-art and industry standard technologies, all of which are wholly operated in a cloud computing environment. In order to operate with ever-improving effectiveness, the team operates in a rich culture of performance and innovation. Collaboration within the team and with business stakeholders is frictionless, with significant independence offered in order to experiment with better ways of conducting technology for business value. Technological and career growth opportunities are a natural and everyday part of the working environment.

About the project

The benefits of joining us

Professional growth

Accelerate your professional journey with mentorship, TechTalks, and personalized growth roadmaps

Competitive compensation

We match your ever-growing skills, talent, and contributions with competitive USD-based compensation and budgets for education, fitness, and team activities

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Join projects with modern solutions development and top-tier clients that include Fortune 500 enterprises and leading product brands

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Tailor your schedule for an optimal work-life balance, by having the options of working from home and going to the office – whatever makes you the happiest and most productive.

Your AgileEngine journey starts here

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Test task

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2

Intro Call

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3

Technical Interview

You will have an interview with your future team lead

Our geography

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About AgileEngine

Founded as a dev tool vendor with a 2-person team

2010

Opened a dev center in Ukraine

2012

Pivoted into outsourced product development

2014

Launched mobile and UI labs

2015

Got our first Inc. 5000 award

2016

Opened a dev center in Argentina

2017

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2019

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2020

Opened new dev centers in Mexico and Colombia, counting 500+ experts

2021

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A company where experts grow, hone their skills, and do what they love, AgileEngine is guided by these principles:

Stay agile and embrace changes

Thrive in a results-driven culture with individual autonomy

Innovate with fellow experts in a no-blame environment

Learn from mistakes and move on

Foster mutual trust and support

Our geography

UTC-5
WASHINGTON DC USA
UTC-5
MIAMI USA
UTC-6
MEXICOMexico
UTC-5
ColombiaColombia
UTC-3
BrazilBrazil
UTC-3
ArgentinaArgentina
UTC+2
UkraineEurope
UTC+1
PolandEurope
UTC+0
PortugalPortugal
UTC+5:30
IndiaIndia

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