Data Scientist - Threat intelligence, Security Domain, Python - Bangalore - 7 to 11 Years

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  • Location:
    Bangalore, India
  • Area of Interest
    Engineer - Software
  • Job Type
    Professional
  • Technology Interest
    Big Data, Analytics
  • Job Id
    1433421

Who You'll Work With

Cisco is offering an extraordinary opportunity to work with an innovative team with a low process, high throughput culture. We are looking for a highly energetic Data Scientist who can combine technical acumen of network security engineering with strong analytical skills. The team is playing a crucial part in leading breakthrough security capabilities to the thousands of Cisco’s current and future customers worldwide. Today, we handle more than 80 billion daily Internet requests from 65 million+ users around the world. Though we take phenomenal pride in being market leaders in threat security for long time, we are constantly innovating and improving our solutions to address the ever-changing threat landscape and changing data security paradigms so that our customer networks are always secured. We take our customers trust in us very seriously and go all the way to ensure we protect their data all times. Our team works on leading Network Intrusion Detection & Prevention System solutions that are all-star, scalable and easily manageable. Our network security portfolio and cloud delivered services cover a wide spectrum of security solutions spanning - Firepower Threat Defense, Snort, Encrypted Visibility Engine.

Working at Cisco Network Security means being surrounded by passionate, intelligent and creative people that are determined to disrupt the Internet security industry with creative ideas, world-class research and unrivalled products and services. It’s a place where the best ideas are quickly transformed into products, features, campaigns and company-wide practices, so it won’t be long before you witness the results of your hard work.

About the Role

Data is a critical part of our AI/ML based Threat detection engine, where we process and analyze hundreds of millions of records every day to look for malicious and risky behavior. Furthermore, we are geeks at heart, passionate about data and solving cybersecurity problems for our customers.

As a Security Data Scientist on the Threat team, you will be responsible for developing data-driven solutions using innovative sophisticated analytics techniques. This involves working closely with engineering, product, operations, and other teams to understand the most important technical and business analytics needs to drive security-centric analytics outcomes. A successful candidate is self-motivated with a passion for excellence and attention to detail.

What You'll Do

  • Analyze and correlate complex data from various sources.
  • Perform exploratory data analysis to gain deeper understanding of the data.
  • Work with stakeholders, including domain experts and product, to understand use cases and domain-specific problems and find opportunities for applying machine learning to drive outcomes.
  • Develop tools and algorithms for generating synthetic data sets.
  • Define KPI's to measure model performance.
  • Develop and test statistical and machine learning models for efficacy and operational impact.
  • Write production quality code and work with other software engineering teams to deploy models into production.
  • Support deployed models as a domain expert.
  • Be creative and engineer novel features and methods to push beyond our current capabilities.

Who You Are

  • Structure large, sophisticated data sets to find usable information, solve difficulties, and analyze problems with advanced analytical or statistical methods
  • demonstrated ability in a threat intelligence or related security analyst role with Min 7+Years.
  • Proficient in Cybersecurity fundamentals
  • Prior experience in data analysis in Cybersecurity domain
  • General data analysis tools (PySpark/Pandas/NumPy), data visualization and any one of the languages Python (preferably), C/C++

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Our passion is connection—we celebrate our employees’ diverse set of backgrounds and focus on unlocking potential. Cisconians often experience one company, many careers where learning and development are encouraged and supported at every stage. Our

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Message to applicants applying to work in the U.S. and/or Canada:

When available, the salary range posted for this position reflects the projected hiring range for new hire, full-time salaries in U.S. and/or Canada locations, not including equity or benefits. For non-sales roles the hiring ranges reflect base salary only; employees are also eligible to receive annual bonuses. Hiring ranges for sales positions include base and incentive compensation target. Individual pay is determined by the candidate's hiring location and additional factors, including but not limited to skillset, experience, and relevant education, certifications, or training. Applicants may not be eligible for the full salary range based on their U.S. or Canada hiring location. The recruiter can share more details about compensation for the role in your location during the hiring process.

U.S. employees have access to quality medical, dental and vision insurance, a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution, short and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance and numerous wellbeing offerings.

Employees receive up to twelve paid holidays per calendar year, which includes one floating holiday (for non-exempt employees), plus a day off for their birthday. Non-Exempt new hires accrue up to 16 days of vacation time off each year, at a rate of 4.92 hours per pay period. Exempt new hires participate in Cisco’s flexible Vacation Time Off policy, which does not place a defined limit on how much vacation time eligible employees may use, but is subject to availability and some business limitations. All new hires are eligible for Sick Time Off subject to Cisco’s Sick Time Off Policy and will have eighty (80) hours of sick time off provided on their hire date and on January 1st of each year thereafter.  Up to 80 hours of unused sick time will be carried forward from one calendar year to the next such that the maximum number of sick time hours an employee may have available is 160 hours. Employees in Illinois have a unique time off program designed specifically with local requirements in mind. All employees also have access to paid time away to deal with critical or emergency issues. We offer additional paid time to volunteer and give back to the community.

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.75% of incentive target for each 1% of revenue attainment up to 50% of quota;

1.5% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 50% and 75%;

1% of incentive target for each 1% of attainment between 75% and 100%; and once performance exceeds 100% attainment, incentive rates are at or above 1% for each 1% of attainment with no cap on incentive compensation.

For non-quota-based sales performance elements such as strategic sales objectives, Cisco may pay up to 125% of target. Cisco sales plans do not have a minimum threshold of performance for sales incentive compensation to be paid.

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