Data Scientist

AnaVation is seeking a Data Scientist to join our team and support our mission critical customer in Reston, VA. As our Data Scientist, you will employ data science and analytic methodologies to use data sets to identify patterns and relationships. The Data Scientist will support the automation, reporting, and data visualization to improve cyber service delivery capabilities. You will support quarterly innovation white papers, work with the Tools team to identify and document new data sources, data schemas, and support data. As Data Scientist, you will provide an analytical approach to share situational awareness of network topology, communicate threat and other information, and provide the health and status of customer defenses. You will also work with the Splunk Engineer and Splunk users on analytics, visualizations, and dashboard capabilities to enhance situational awareness, risk analysis, and response coordination.

Required Qualifications

• Clearance: Active TS/SCI Clearance with Polygraph
• Education & Years of Experience: Bachelor’s degree and 2 years of experience related to specific functional area
• Certifications: Currently hold, or be able to attain a CompTIA Security+ or equivalent certification. 
• Experience and knowledge on:
• Working collaboratively across cross-functional teams of all experience levels
• Creating, maintaining, and updating related knowledge management and technical documentation
• Analyzing unstructured and semi-structured data, including entity identification and tagging, complex event processing (CEP), and the application of analysis algorithms on distributed, clustered, and cloud-based high-performance infrastructures
• Visualization of large-scale analysis and presentation of data
• Technical and computational skills, coupled with the ability relate data to use cases, mission requirements, and end-user experience
• Use of tools and computational skills to interpret, connect, predict and make discoveries in complex data and deliver recommendations for business and analytic decisions
• Experience with Cloud-based data analysis tools 
• Experience with visual analytic tools

Desired Qualifications

• Security certifications: CCNA Security, CySA+, SSCP, or equivalent certification
• AWS certification
• Cloud certifications