Ardent
Cybersecurity Analytics Lead
Washington, D.C
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 17 hours ago
PythonSQLElasticsearchMachine LearningSparkData AnalysisData EngineeringData ScienceStatisticsCybersecuritySIEMIncident ResponseCommunication
About the role
- This is an on-site position in Lanham, MD.
Responsibilities
- Ardent is seeking a Cybersecurity Analytics Lead to support the IRS Cybersecurity Fraud Analytics and Monitoring (CFAM) program through fraud analytics operations, predictive analysis, forensic investigations, and cybersecurity monitoring activities.
- This role will support large-scale analytics initiatives focused on detecting anomalous, malicious, and fraudulent activity across IRS online application ecosystems.
- Support fraud analytics, predictive analytics, and forensic analysis activities across enterprise environments.
- Support implementation and enhancement of analytical models and fraud detection methodologies.
- Perform log analysis, data correlation, and investigation of cybersecurity or fraud-related events.
- Support incident response and mitigation activities related to fraudulent or malicious activity.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to support data ingestion, ETL processes, and analytics platform enhancements.
- Support continuous monitoring and analysis of IRS application ecosystems.
- If you want to build something meaningful, while enjoying the kind of flexibility and support that you need to do your best work - Ardent is where your next mission begins.
- Ardent is seeking a Cybersecurity Analytics Lead to join our team.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Technology, Data Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, or related field, or equivalent demonstrated experience.
- Minimum of 5 years of experience supporting cybersecurity operations, fraud analytics, data analytics, or enterprise monitoring environments.
- Experience supporting cybersecurity monitoring, fraud detection, or incident response activities.
- Experience conducting log analysis, data analysis, or investigative activities.
- Ability to analyze data and identify suspicious or anomalous patterns.
- Familiarity with cybersecurity monitoring tools, analytics platforms, or SIEM technologies.
Nice to have
- Experience supporting IRS, Treasury, Federal Civilian, Intelligence Community, or regulated environments.
- Experience with tools such as Splunk, ElasticSearch, Python, R, SQL, Spark, or similar technologies.
- Experience supporting ETL processes, data ingestion, or analytics platform operations.
- Familiarity with cybersecurity incident response and forensic analysis activities.
- Experience supporting enterprise cybersecurity or fraud monitoring programs.
- Due to the nature of the work we support, all candidates in consideration for this role must be willing to undergo the government issued background investigation process.
- We highly encourage all Veterans and those with disabilities to apply.
- Ardent is an equal opportunity employer.
Compensation
- We will not discriminate in employment, recruitment, advertisements for employment, compensation, termination, upgrading, promotions, and other conditions of employment against any employee or job applicant on the bases of race, color, gend
Benefits
- Participate in development of fraud indicators, predictive models, and machine learning-based analytics.
Company info
- At Ardent, we hire people who want more than a job - they want to serve a mission that matters.
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