Job id : 35201
Data Scientist
Data Scientist
Bangalore / Bengaluru
4 years ago
17 Applied
JOB ID:35201
Job details
Job Type
Full Time
Functional Area
Software Development
Industry
Internet/E-Commerce/Startups
Education
Not Specified
Experience Required
2 - 3 Yrs
Key Skills Required
Python, Data Analysis, SQL, Unix
Other Skills Required
Job Description
About the JobIf you have a deep passion for data and security, love handling massive data sets, and get excited from solving hard problems, Akamai is the place for you. We are seeking a highly motivated Threat Operations Analyst who will work with Engineering and Product Management teams to quickly resolve highly technical, complex issues, and advocate for real-world customer use cases, features, and functionality. You will apply your practical analytical skills and your experience with statistical analysis to derive actionable insights from large volumes of data.Join a fast-paced team in Akamai’s Security Unit charged with protecting the largest brands against the unpredictable landscape of evolving botnets and malware. Bad actors might build massive botnets or new automated attack systems; you’ll help dismantle and cripple them in real, internet time.
About AkamaiAkamai’s global footprint of over 220,000 servers provides an overlay network with scale and capacity to not just del... See More
About AkamaiAkamai’s global footprint of over 220,000 servers provides an overlay network with scale and capacity to not just del... See More
About the JobIf you have a deep passion for data and security, love handling massive data sets, and get excited from solving hard problems, Akamai is the place for you. We are seeking a highly motivated Threat Operations Analyst who will work with Engineering and Product Management teams to quickly resolve highly technical, complex issues, and advocate for real-world customer use cases, features, and functionality. You will apply your practical analytical skills and your experience with statistical analysis to derive actionable insights from large volumes of data.Join a fast-paced team in Akamai’s Security Unit charged with protecting the largest brands against the unpredictable landscape of evolving botnets and malware. Bad actors might build massive botnets or new automated attack systems; you’ll help dismantle and cripple them in real, internet time.
About AkamaiAkamai’s global footprint of over 220,000 servers provides an overlay network with scale and capacity to not just deliver the largest web events but also secure the largest Internet brands from attack. Akamai builds and extends highly fault-tolerant wide area distributed content delivery and application acceleration systems to improve performance, security, reliability and availability of high-value web sites. Akamai powers over 85% of the top online retailers, with over $100 billion in annual revenue.
About the Team
The web security team is focused on leveraging Akamai's core strengths of its highly distributed cloud-based platform that already serves up to 30% of the traffic on the web and the massive amount of HTTP data it has access to as a result to define industry leading web security products that provide rapid visibility and control for protection against constantly changing attack profiles.
Fights Bots -saves customers millions of $$ by preventing (1) Account hijacking and fraud through credential stuffing, (2) theft of IP through screen scrapping, (3) Inventory hijacking, (4) decrease Infrastructure cost and increase availability.
The role is to marry data science with security engineering to come up with solutions for each Customers unique attacks -The role is to be the last bastion of defense against Bot attacks. The simple cases are addressed by GSS (Services), AkaTech (Support) or the Security Services Escalation Team (S2ET) team. As complex cases get routed to this team, this team will analyze the attacks that the Product did not identify or False Positives (product prevented a legitimate human) and come up with resolution within hours. This team will analyze Zero day attacks and provide leads and feedback to the Product Engineering team to build those analyzes as algorithms within the Product. Finally, this team need to build Tools which will enable this fast response time -such a prepackaged analysis tools, deployment tools, etcboot manager is the fastest growing product in Akamai. Its importance is directly reflected in the CEO’s quarterly calls where this product is mentioned every time for last few years as an example of success. With success comes challenges -the main challenge is to scale up a relatively young product (~4 years) to the v ery high acquisition rate of the Customers -each with its unique attack traffic patterns and pain thresholdsResponsibilitiesInvestigate the most sophisticated bots from across the Akamai’s customer base
Tuning detection algorithms for best fit for a particular customer traffic pattern.
On-going monitoring and measurement of the effectiveness of bot detection algorithms
Build tools for automated analysis
Keep abreast of current malware, botnets, or other automated agent trends and provide insights for further product enhancementsRequired Education and Experience:
About AkamaiAkamai’s global footprint of over 220,000 servers provides an overlay network with scale and capacity to not just deliver the largest web events but also secure the largest Internet brands from attack. Akamai builds and extends highly fault-tolerant wide area distributed content delivery and application acceleration systems to improve performance, security, reliability and availability of high-value web sites. Akamai powers over 85% of the top online retailers, with over $100 billion in annual revenue.
About the Team
The web security team is focused on leveraging Akamai's core strengths of its highly distributed cloud-based platform that already serves up to 30% of the traffic on the web and the massive amount of HTTP data it has access to as a result to define industry leading web security products that provide rapid visibility and control for protection against constantly changing attack profiles.
Fights Bots -saves customers millions of $$ by preventing (1) Account hijacking and fraud through credential stuffing, (2) theft of IP through screen scrapping, (3) Inventory hijacking, (4) decrease Infrastructure cost and increase availability.
The role is to marry data science with security engineering to come up with solutions for each Customers unique attacks -The role is to be the last bastion of defense against Bot attacks. The simple cases are addressed by GSS (Services), AkaTech (Support) or the Security Services Escalation Team (S2ET) team. As complex cases get routed to this team, this team will analyze the attacks that the Product did not identify or False Positives (product prevented a legitimate human) and come up with resolution within hours. This team will analyze Zero day attacks and provide leads and feedback to the Product Engineering team to build those analyzes as algorithms within the Product. Finally, this team need to build Tools which will enable this fast response time -such a prepackaged analysis tools, deployment tools, etcboot manager is the fastest growing product in Akamai. Its importance is directly reflected in the CEO’s quarterly calls where this product is mentioned every time for last few years as an example of success. With success comes challenges -the main challenge is to scale up a relatively young product (~4 years) to the v ery high acquisition rate of the Customers -each with its unique attack traffic patterns and pain thresholdsResponsibilitiesInvestigate the most sophisticated bots from across the Akamai’s customer base
Tuning detection algorithms for best fit for a particular customer traffic pattern.
On-going monitoring and measurement of the effectiveness of bot detection algorithms
Build tools for automated analysis
Keep abreast of current malware, botnets, or other automated agent trends and provide insights for further product enhancementsRequired Education and Experience:
- BS or MS in Computer Science, Applied Math, Statistics, Data Science or relevant subject
- 3 years experience in Data analysis
- 3 years experience in Python programming
- 3 years experience in SQL.
- 3 years experience working on Unix platform
- 2 years experience with various open source data analytic packages such as Pandas, numPy, Matplotlib, etc
- Strong verbal and written communications skills; experience presenting complex technical information, succinctly, to technical and business audiences.
- Data visualization skills to translate complex models and analysis results into layman terms.
- Experience, familiarity and ease with handling large, messy data sets. Prior experience with AWS Athena is a plus, but not required.
- Experience in Javascript debugging.
- Understanding of Proxies, DNS, HTTP protocol, Browser Rendering engines.
- Familiarity with AWS and Big Data Technologies like EMR or Spark is a plus, but not required.
- Bot detection experience is a plus
- Interest in Machine Learning, specifically anomaly detection and data mining
- Interest in Web Application security
About Company
Akamai is the Edge. Our globally distributed intelligent edge platform surrounds everything, from the enterprise to the cloud, so our customers and their businesses can be fast, smart, and secure.
Akamai is a growing and evolving company. We’re curious people. Optimistic. Intelligent. And highly skilled. We work together, as one global team, to develop solutions that help shape digital life today, and the future of digital transformation. We are dedicated to problem solving through intellectual curiosity and collaboration. With thousands of customers—including leading brands like Apple and The Home Depot—our solutions offer nearly unlimited potential to take-on the grand challenges facing today’s technology leaders and media pioneers.
Our ProgramsInternalship - Internal Career development
Internalship is a unique platform where employees inAkamai gets an opportunity to learn new things outside of their regular job for a limited period of time. Through this program, we challenge th... See More
Akamai is a growing and evolving company. We’re curious people. Optimistic. Intelligent. And highly skilled. We work together, as one global team, to develop solutions that help shape digital life today, and the future of digital transformation. We are dedicated to problem solving through intellectual curiosity and collaboration. With thousands of customers—including leading brands like Apple and The Home Depot—our solutions offer nearly unlimited potential to take-on the grand challenges facing today’s technology leaders and media pioneers.
Our ProgramsInternalship - Internal Career development
Internalship is a unique platform where employees inAkamai gets an opportunity to learn new things outside of their regular job for a limited period of time. Through this program, we challenge th... See More
Akamai is the Edge. Our globally distributed intelligent edge platform surrounds everything, from the enterprise to the cloud, so our customers and their businesses can be fast, smart, and secure.
Akamai is a growing and evolving company. We’re curious people. Optimistic. Intelligent. And highly skilled. We work together, as one global team, to develop solutions that help shape digital life today, and the future of digital transformation. We are dedicated to problem solving through intellectual curiosity and collaboration. With thousands of customers—including leading brands like Apple and The Home Depot—our solutions offer nearly unlimited potential to take-on the grand challenges facing today’s technology leaders and media pioneers.
Our ProgramsInternalship - Internal Career development
Internalship is a unique platform where employees inAkamai gets an opportunity to learn new things outside of their regular job for a limited period of time. Through this program, we challenge them to explore their area of interest and pursue their dreams. It can be anything like new technology, process, business unit, role or domain. Basically it stands on three pillars “Learn Share and Grow”JYOT:India Mentoring Program won the “Excellence in Practice award” at the Association for Talent Development (ATD) in Washington DC. It’s a huge honour to be recognized by the world’s largest association dedicated to those who develop talent in organizations.Stand Tall Program India:The Standtall program is the first of its kind at Akamai. It is a women leadership and enablement program designed to support women "leads" to move into leadership positions.ERG’s:At Akamai, employee resource groups start with our people, grow from grassroots support, and strengthen with the full support of the CEO and the entire leadership team.Women’s Forum, OHANA, Out at Akamai, INDUS, parents at Akamai, Military/Veterans at AkamaiBenefits:Our benefits reflect Akamai’s commitment to meeting the needs of today’s tech-industry professionals—including flexible health and dental care from your choice of doctors, unlimited Paid Time Off, up to 18 weeks paid maternity leave, paternity leave, fitness and wellness options, and entertainment.Corporate ResponsibilityWe are proud to take a leadership role in helping enable an open, secure and environmentally friendly Internet; to maintain diversity in our hiring, partnering and procurement practices:
Akamai is a growing and evolving company. We’re curious people. Optimistic. Intelligent. And highly skilled. We work together, as one global team, to develop solutions that help shape digital life today, and the future of digital transformation. We are dedicated to problem solving through intellectual curiosity and collaboration. With thousands of customers—including leading brands like Apple and The Home Depot—our solutions offer nearly unlimited potential to take-on the grand challenges facing today’s technology leaders and media pioneers.
Our ProgramsInternalship - Internal Career development
Internalship is a unique platform where employees inAkamai gets an opportunity to learn new things outside of their regular job for a limited period of time. Through this program, we challenge them to explore their area of interest and pursue their dreams. It can be anything like new technology, process, business unit, role or domain. Basically it stands on three pillars “Learn Share and Grow”JYOT:India Mentoring Program won the “Excellence in Practice award” at the Association for Talent Development (ATD) in Washington DC. It’s a huge honour to be recognized by the world’s largest association dedicated to those who develop talent in organizations.Stand Tall Program India:The Standtall program is the first of its kind at Akamai. It is a women leadership and enablement program designed to support women "leads" to move into leadership positions.ERG’s:At Akamai, employee resource groups start with our people, grow from grassroots support, and strengthen with the full support of the CEO and the entire leadership team.Women’s Forum, OHANA, Out at Akamai, INDUS, parents at Akamai, Military/Veterans at AkamaiBenefits:Our benefits reflect Akamai’s commitment to meeting the needs of today’s tech-industry professionals—including flexible health and dental care from your choice of doctors, unlimited Paid Time Off, up to 18 weeks paid maternity leave, paternity leave, fitness and wellness options, and entertainment.Corporate ResponsibilityWe are proud to take a leadership role in helping enable an open, secure and environmentally friendly Internet; to maintain diversity in our hiring, partnering and procurement practices:
- Akamai Foundation- dedicated to excellence in mathematics
- Danny Lewin Community Care days to give back to our global community
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