Senior Cybersecurity Specialist
Current• Create and configure complex data pipelines, joining data together, creating tables, upserting data to existing tables, Compute Clusters, and job configurations for scheduled processes• Customized authoritative cybersecurity data, leveraging Python, JavaScript, PowerShell, Bash scripts, and API for data collection, data manipulation, and integration with tools like Apache Nifi, Kafka, Spark, Pyspark, Pandas, and SQL• Regularly navigate AWS, Azure, and Red Hat OpenShift Kubernetes containerized clusters for data integrity checks, development, and testing in cloud environments• Utilize and analyze API JSON and XML responses of various cybersecurity tools such as Splunk, Azure Sentinel, Forescout, and others• Formulated data processing rules and algorithms for transformation and correlations• Managed ETL workloads throughout the data-lifecycle• Regularly formulate data requirements and conduct complex logical operations for cybersecurity tool datasets, including source data analysis and identifying destination systems• Automate cybersecurity processes and develop coding logic using Apache Nifi, Python, BASH, PowerShell, JavaScript, R, Scala, Spark SQL, and other scripting and programing languages• Efficiently manage version control with GIT/Github productively collaborating and sharing insights with developers• Regularly update Jira utilizing the Agile Methodologies with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) Pipelines• Identify, analyze results using statistical techniques, and interpret trends or patterns in complex datasets throughout the data-lifecycle for accuracy and anomalies utilizing various Pyspark and Spark SQL commands based on the customer needs• Create innovative data flows, pipelines, and script tools to further the visibility and capabilities the VA’s Cybersecurity Operations Center (CSOC) utilizing Apache Nifi and Python• Proficient at queries and database various SQL languages, report writing and presenting findings