Big Data Engineer
Reading
6 Months
IR35 Determination: Inside
100% On-site working a 9 day fortnight
MOD DV Clearance Required
The world continues to connect safely and free from cyberattacks. Every day, our vital work impacts upon millions of organisations and individuals. We ensure nation-states, governments, public services, emergency services, armed forces, people and businesses stay safely connected, as well as providing security solutions to public and private sector customers across 180 countries.
KEY PURPOSE OF ROLE
Our team maintain and develop a big data platform for a UK critical national infrastructure customer. Comprised of Elasticsearch and data lakes built on a Linux estate, the platform supports a suite of cutting-edge cybersecurity and data science tools. The team uses DevOps methodology to deliver continuous improvements that ensure the platform meets rapidly changing security requirements.
The role holder is responsible for the technical liaison with the customer's teams to assist with the support of and continuous evolution of Cybersecurity Platform - to ensure it stays ahead of the relentless innovation of the customer's cyber adversaries. They will work alongside the customer's own staff providing their analytical skills to evolve cyber security use cases and provide indepth technical assistance for the components of the platform.
The role will be located at customer premises and requires an MOD DV.
They will work to an agile lifecycle model to ensure that capabilities are evolved using a structured methodology and are operationally supportable. This will be coupled with a continuous integration methodology to enforce regular testing of capability modules and their integration points against the ever-evolving platform ecosystem. It is required that the role holder will have experience with a wide range of technologies covering platform administration, core infrastructure technologies, big data applications and scripting.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Deliver outstanding service to our customers, building on our reputation for excellence in delivery
- Carry out design, development, integration and testing of applications and services
- To provide analytical and innovative input to projects and operational support tasks
- Work with various technical teams to identify detailed technical requirements considering data quality and integration.
REQUIRED SKILLS
- Linux operating systems skills (admin, patching, support)
- Knowledge of Code automation tools (Ansible)
- Knowledge of a wide range of cybersecurity topics
- Knowledge or experience of large scale ETL
- Experience of using scripting languages (Bash, PowerShell, Python)
- Comfortable working with Linux based operating systems
AUTHORITY/DECISION MAKING/BUSINESS IMPACT
- Completes own role independently with minimal supervision/guidance
- Establishes own milestones, team objectives and delegates assignments
- Work is often self-initiated
- Receives assignments in the form of objectives
- Uses discretion in identifying and resolving complex problems and assignments
- Full accountability for own technical work or project/management responsibilities
- Maintains a reputation for quality and delivery of their expertise to the business
- Contributes to the definition of strategy and evolution and/or associated infrastructure investments for Group/LoB
- Responsible for engineering delivery plans for larger projects/programmes
- Contributes to the transformation strategy for a network, platform or technology discipline in own area of expertise
If you feel like you match the requrements, then please submit your CV and we will be in touch!
