Senior Cybersecurity Data Visualization Specialist (Security Clearance) - Remote

ICF International seeks an experienced Senior Cybersecurity Data Visualization Specialist 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. The successful cleared candidate will act as a Cybersecurity Data Visualization Specialist to 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 Cybersecurity Data Visualization Specialist, 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 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:

• 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:

• 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
• 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

Working at ICF

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