Senior Cybersecurity Data Visualization Specialist

Description

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**:

- 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
- Perform functions associated with the analysis of information, refinement of analytics and countermeasure selection, reviewing output, and making upgrades/improvements to the performance of the analytics and countermeasures

**What You Must Have**:

- Active 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
- 5 or more years of Cyber Security experience (e.g., Threat Hunt, Incident Response, Investigations, Technical Reporting, etc.)
- 5 or more years of hands-on experience with Business Intelligence tools; using Kibana to create, educate, troubleshoot, maintain, and train visualizations and dashboards. Experience with additional visualization tools is a plus.
- Familiarity with Netflow data with an understanding of current cyber threats and trend derived from multiple sources (e.g., open-source, intelligence products, etc.)
- Familiarity with federal cybersecurity requirements
- Experience with a variety of analytics and sources (e.g., file, network, host-based, etc.)

**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
- Experience with basic database (SQL) queries and data structures
- 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

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