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Oracle Labs Australia is the place where researchers and engineers come together to dream and innovate ways to improve the security of software, safeguard from security attacks, and improve the productivity of developers worldwide.  Join us to participate in the creation of Cybersecurity solutions that improve the security of software worldwide!  Through our specialisation in Program Analysis we make that dream a reality.  The projects transferred out of Oracle Labs Australia are used by Oracle to deliver new generations of solutions to over 37,000 customers globally (including 100 of the Fortune 100).  Visit us at http\://labs.oracle.com/locations/australia


The role
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A Senior Data Engineer position is available in the Open Source Intelligence project (OSInt). OSInt is a big data analytics project that gathers information about vulnerabilities in libraries, starting from the National Vulnerability Database (NVD), and transforms it into valuable and actionable security intelligence for end users.

The successful candidate will perform technical work in the area of big data analytics, with main focus on development of stable and robust data analytics pipelines to collect raw data from various sources on the Internet and extract valuable insights from them. OSInt systematically collects and processes (extract, transform and load) large volumes of data in the range of terabytes, to gather relevant and actionable information for end users through building a security knowledge base.  The successful candidate will be responsible for the data collection and the implementation of the relevant data pipelines, along with working with internal teams to determine how best to query the knowledge base and provide actionable intelligence.

Selection criteria
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Essential criteria
- 5 years of professional experience in industry;
- Working knowledge of big data analytics and information retrieval (IR) techniques;
- Experience with big data processing frameworks (e.g. Apache Spark);
- Working experience in SQL and NoSQL databases;
- Demonstrable strong programming skills in Python;
- Demonstrable problem solving skills related to data collection and data exploration;
- Self-starter, can do attitude and track record;
- Demonstrable capacity to work independently and collaboratively;
- Adaptability, flexibility, and the ability to deal with ambiguity associated with working in a research laboratory;
- Eligibility to work in Australia without sponsorship.

Desired criteria
- Application of data analytics to security problems a plus;
- Experience with Neo4j a plus;
- Working knowledge of notebook such as Jupyter or similar;
- Experience in applying deep neural networks to natural language processing (NLP) tasks is a plus;
- Excellent communication skills;
- Ability to engage with product organisations.

Exceptional candidates with less years of experience will also be considered.



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