Cyber Data Analyst
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Job description
Analyze large cybersecurity datasets (e.g., network logs, authentication data, threat intelligence) to identify trends, anomalies, and potential risks
- Develop and maintain dashboards and reports (e.g., Power BI, Tableau) to provide actionable insights to leadership and operational teams
- Perform data validation, cleansing, and transformation to ensure accuracy and reliability of reporting
- Support anomaly detection and trend analysis through statistical methods and exploratory data analysis
- Collaborate with cybersecurity analysts to translate data findings into operational insights and recommendations
- Develop and refine metrics (e.g., phishing rates, authentication anomalies, threat activity trends) to improve situational awareness
- Conduct root cause and gap analysis to identify weaknesses in monitoring or detection coverage
- Support automation of recurring data processes and reporting workflows (e.g., Python, SQL, Databricks)
- Document methodologies, assumptions, and data sources to ensure transparency and reproducibility
Requirements
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A bachelor's degree and minimum of 5 years of relevant experience.
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An additional 4 years of experience may be substituted in lieu of degree.
Must possess or be able to obtain the following certification before start date. Continued certification required as a condition of employment:
- CAP, CASP+ CE, CCISO, CCNA-Security, CISM, CISSP (or Associate), CISSP (or Associate), CND, CSSLP, CySA+, GICSP, GSEC, GSLC, Security+ CE, SSCP, PPDA, Agile IC, SNOW App Dev
Experience with SIEM, EDR/XDR, and network security telemetry (e.g., Splunk, Microsoft Defender, Palo Alto Networks).
Familiarity with SQL, Python, or PySpark for data manipulation.
Familiarity with the use of artificial intelligence to add efficiencies to, or automate data capture, sort and analysis efforts, ideally within a cyber security or threat intelligence context.
U.S. citizenship required.
Active Top Secret security with the ability to obtain a final Top Secret/SCI security clearance.
Preferred experience:
- Building executive-level dashboards and presenting insights to non-technical stakeholders.
- Exposure to anomaly detection or basic statistical modeling (not full ML ownership).
- In federal or DoD/DoS environment, particularly with missions involving the creation and application of cyber threat intelligence.