Enterprise - Senior Data Scientist - Splunk, Sentinel, Yara

Erias Ventures was founded to serve its customers with an entrepreneurial mindset. We value creative problem-solving
, open communication
, and empowering our employees to make decisions and put forth new ideas.

Our staff includes technical experts working across multiple disciplines, bringing diverse perspectives to every project. We are seeking engineers who wish to grow their careers and want to become part of a technicallystrong and growth-oriented company focused on bringing innovative solutions to the difficult mission problems facing our customers.

We are seeking a talented and experienced Cyber Hunt Analyst with Data Science experience to apply strong cyber security, Defensive Cyber Operations (DCO), and networking domain knowledge to support cyber analytics product development, threat analysis, statistical analysis, model development, and direct customer mission support. Regular cyber hunt activities consist of hunting for threats, reporting on findings, and converting tools, techniques, and processes into automated capabilities for the current cyber platform.

Regular data science activities consist operational research, statistical analysis, hypothesis testing, model building/testing, and communicating results using visualizations. Will also be responsible for collecting customer Cyber Operations requirements, generating use cases, providing Cyber SME support, and system training to end users.

• Conduct threat hunt operations on assigned Big Data Platform(s) – BDP
• Present threat hunt findings through live - interactive remote conference sessions
• Perform data analytics across disparate data sets
• Assist customer(s) with their threat hunting operations
• Perform quality assurance checks on data that is resident on the BDP
• Evaluate and analyze new data feeds to determine relevance and usability of data
• Support BDP analytic requests (data search, visualizations, dashboards etc.)
• Provide real time customer support during normal working hours (BDP support chat room)
• Maintain situational awareness of emerging cyber threats for possible action and notification to an impacted customer(s)
• Support BDP demonstration requests to showcase various capabilities of the platform
• Support BDP training events either in person or virtually
• Provide advice on data enrichment and functions to enhance customer experience

This position allows for partial telework.

A current Secret level security clearance is required with the ability to obtain a TS/SCI level clearance. Candidates cannot be sponsored or nominated for a government security clearance under this position.

Five (5) years of experience in cyber security operations related fields and a Bachelors in related field or three (3) years experience with Masters; or High School Diploma and nine (9) years experience.

• Experience with supporting DoD customers, ideally supporting US Cyber Command, DISA, or DCDC
• Cyber Hunt methodologies and techniques
• SIEMs - (e.g., Splunk, Q-Radar, ELK)
• SOARs (e.g., Sentinel, CORTEX, X-SOAR)
• Developing and deploying threat detection signatures and detecting host and network-based intrusions
• Collecting data from a variety of cyber defense resources. (e.g., CVE, OSINT)
• Recognizing and categorizing types of vulnerabilities and associated attacks
• Reading and interpreting signatures (e.g., SNORT, SIGMA, Yara, YAML)
• Cyber defense and vulnerability assessment tools and their capabilities
• Network traffic analysis methods (e.g.,TCP-DUMP, Wireshark, Bro/Zeek)
• Familiar with cyber attack stages (e.g., reconnaissance, scanning, enumeration, gaining access, escalation of privileges, maintaining access, network exploitation, covering tracks), and incident response and handling methodologies. (e.g., MITRE ATT&CK, LM Killchain)
• Intrusion Detection System (IDS)/Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) tools and applications
• Excellent customer service, public speaking, and presentation skills
• Ability to complete technical tasks without supervision
• Ability to foster and support a collaborative working environment
• Must have Data+, Security+, CySA+, GCIH, GNFA, GCFA or other industry recognized Cybersecurity Certification
• DoD 8570 IAT Level II…