Senior Data Engineer (Cyber Threat Feeds and Taxonomies) for NATO with security clearance

Every threat feed is a different shape. Somebody has to make them one thing, and make it trustworthy.

You would engineer the data side of a defence alliance's threat-intelligence sharing platform in Mons, Belgium — the pipelines feeding it, the schema underneath it, and the quality rules that decide what is worth keeping.

What you would be doing

• Designing, building and maintaining the pipelines that ingest threat information from a wide range of sources
• Developing and maintaining Python scripts that automate the platform and integrate it with the systems around it, including security monitoring and detection
• Defining, documenting and implementing the rules by which information is disseminated
• Supporting the work around threat-information process management
• Normalising heterogeneous feed structures into one consistent schema
• Enforcing data quality — deduplication, confidence scoring, indicator lifecycle, provenance, and tracking and filtering the low-quality sources
• Contributing to and integrating existing cyber threat information standards
• Creating and maintaining the documentation on the taxonomies and galaxies people actually use
• Writing and keeping current the best-practice guidance for data entry
• Being the expert the internal communities come to on curation and dissemination options — what each one buys them and what it costs
• Supporting the user community — regular feedback normally, daily feedback during exercises
• Leading a team of platform operators during exercises, covering information flow, quality control and user management
• Planning, preparing and delivering online training, and helping build the individual training packages that prove the objectives were met

What you would bring

• At least ten years of practical experience across the areas below
• Designing, building and managing data pipelines — transformation, data models, schemas, metadata and workload management
• Supporting, leading or managing data-focused operations and projects, using data engineering tooling behind data science, analytics and visualisation
• Python scripting
• A good grasp of security principles, practice, concepts and technology
• The ability to work alone and in a team
• Excellent organisation, communication and writing
• Professional English
• A bachelor's degree in a related discipline with three years of related experience — or, exceptionally, ten years of progressive expertise in this kind of work

Nice to have

• The platform's own core format, and STIX
• Work as a cyber threat intelligence analyst, or as an incident responder
• Splunk
• Handling cyber threat information at scale
• Work with open-source communities, and multinational cyber exercises
• Administering a threat-sharing platform, or writing code for one in Python or PHP

Why this one is worth a look

Data engineering where the data is adversarial and the quality rules genuinely matter — not another warehouse.