Lead Cybersecurity Data Engineer

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The Lead Cybersecurity Data Engineer role will work closely with Principal engineers within the Platform & Data Engineering Team, contributing to and coordinating data engineering, data acquisition, cloud infrastructure and platform engineering, platform operations, and production support activities using ground-breaking cloud and big data technologies. For this role, cybersecurity-specific knowledge is preferred but not essential.

The position is a mid-senior technical, hands-on delivery role, requiring knowledge of data engineering, cloud infrastructure and platform engineering, platform operations and production support. 

What you’ll do

⦁ Ingestion and provisioning of raw datasets, enriched tables, and/or curated, re-usable data assets to enable Cybersecurity use cases.

⦁ Driving improvements in the reliability and frequency of data ingestion including increasing real-time coverage.

⦁ Identifying and onboarding data sources using existing schemas and, where required, conducting exploratory data analysis to investigate and determine new schemas.

⦁ Extract Translate and Load (ETL) workflows, using both advanced data manipulation tools and programmatically manipulating data throughout our data flows, ensuring data is available at each stage in the data flow, and in the form needed for each system, service, and customer along said data flow.

⦁ Designing and implementing data pipelines that will collect data from disparate sources across the enterprise, and from external sources, transport said data, and deliver it to our data platform

What you need to have to succeed in this role

⦁ Demonstrable experience of Linux administration and scripting (preferably Red Hat Systems)

⦁ Experience with Python, Spark, SQL, Databricks, Azure Function App, Azure DevOps and Terraform.

⦁ Understanding of hardware and software principles and storage technologies (SSD, HDD, NVMe), CPU architectures, and Memory & Operating system principles (especially network stack fundamentals)

⦁ Understanding of network protocols and network design

⦁ Designing, building, and maintaining data pipelines and ETL workflows across disparate datasets

⦁ Experience in applying data engineering methods to the cyber security domain

⦁ Bachelor’s degree in any Science, Technology, Engineering field accompanied with data, technology and/or programming experience also considered.

⦁ Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Java, C#, or similar preferred.

⦁ Experience with server, operating system, and infrastructure technologies such as Nginx/Apache, CosmosDB, Linux, Bash, PowerShell, Prometheus, Grafana, Elasticsearch)

⦁ Experience operating in highly regulated industry, e.g., Financial Services advantageous

What we offer

⦁ Competitive salary

⦁ Annual performance-based bonus

⦁ Additional bonuses for recognition awards

⦁ Multisport card

⦁ Private medical care

⦁ Life insurance

⦁ One-time reimbursement of home office set-up (up to 800 PLN).

⦁ Corporate parties & events

⦁ CSR initiatives

⦁ Nursery discounts

⦁ Financial support with trainings and education

⦁ Social fund

⦁ Flexible working hours 

⦁ Free parking

If your CV meets our criteria, you should expect the following steps in the recruitment process:

⦁ Online behavioural test 

⦁ Telephone screen 

⦁ Interview with the hiring manager. 

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