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# Senior Data Engineer (Cyber Threat Feeds and Taxonomies) for NATO with security clearance

- **Company:** WLG
- **Location:** Bergen, Belgium
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** PHP (Programming Language), Data Analysis, Data Deduplication, Information Engineering, Python (Programming Language), Open Source Technology, Scripting, Cyber Threat Analysis, Software Coding, Splunk, Data Pipelines, User Administration
- **Published:** September 3, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.be/details/5867679554

## About the Role

* At least ten years of practical experience across the areas below
 * Designing, building and managing data pipelines - transformation, data models, schemas, metadata and workload management
 * Supporting, leading or managing data-focused operations and projects, using data engineering tooling behind data science, analytics and visualisation
 * Python scripting
 * A good grasp of security principles, practice, concepts and technology
 * The ability to work alone and in a team
 * Excellent organisation, communication and writing
 * Professional English
 * A bachelor's degree in a related discipline with three years of related experience - or, exceptionally, ten years of progressive expertise in this kind of work

Nice to have

 * The platform's own core format, and STIX
 * Work as a cyber threat intelligence analyst, or as an incident responder
 * Splunk
 * Handling cyber threat information at scale
 * Work with open-source communities, and multinational cyber exercises
 * Administering a threat-sharing platform, or writing code for one in Python or PHP

## Description

* Designing, building and maintaining the pipelines that ingest threat information from a wide range of sources
 * Developing and maintaining Python scripts that automate the platform and integrate it with the systems around it, including security monitoring and detection
 * Defining, documenting and implementing the rules by which information is disseminated
 * Supporting the work around threat-information process management
 * Normalising heterogeneous feed structures into one consistent schema
 * Enforcing data quality - deduplication, confidence scoring, indicator lifecycle, provenance, and tracking and filtering the low-quality sources
 * Contributing to and integrating existing cyber threat information standards
 * Creating and maintaining the documentation on the taxonomies and galaxies people actually use
 * Writing and keeping current the best-practice guidance for data entry
 * Being the expert the internal communities come to on curation and dissemination options - what each one buys them and what it costs
 * Supporting the user community - regular feedback normally, daily feedback during exercises
 * Leading a team of platform operators during exercises, covering information flow, quality control and user management
 * Planning, preparing and delivering online training, and helping build the individual training packages that prove the objectives were met


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