Job Description

We are seeking an experienced Senior Data Science Engineer to join our Network Observability team. The role will partner with visualization developers and data engineers to focus on data analytics, providing actionable proactive guidance for sustainment of critical network components such as routers, switches, firewalls, wireless access points, and other core network infrastructure components.  The role will be responsible for identifying and mining network metric/trace/log repositories to create custom analytical tools for IT and Business stakeholders.

Act as a senior member of a Network Data Insights team, providing an influential voice to drive strategic guidance to engineering and operations teams globally. Be an energetic, approachable initiative-taker who is passionate about data and data mining. Ensure the availability, performance, and security of the organization's network infrastructure through proactive monitoring, analysis, and optimization. Maintain a robust network monitoring system that captures and analyses network traffic, device performance.

As a Data Scientist, proficiency in AI Natural language processing and graphing, statistical analysis, programming, and domain knowledge to extract insights from data.   Aspects of the role will be contributing to full-stack development, creating functional and visually appealing websites and applications. Proficient in programming languages, databases, and web server technologies. 

Professional Competencies:

• Possess superior interpersonal and communication skills, writing clear and concise proposals and presentations and interfacing with peer, management, stakeholders, and executives.

• Possess desire to build powerful, simple, well-designed applications and services that will provide value to stakeholders.

• Ability to coordinate work tasks with others for timely completion and to avoid potential setbacks.

Qualification and Experience:

• High school diploma or equivalent. Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, statistics, or similar data science focus is preferred.

• Familiarity with key components and best practices of Observability.

• Strong engineering or operations experience with the components of a large global network infrastructure such as Routers, switches, LAN/SD-WAN, Firewalls, etc.

• Familiarity with network monitoring, reporting, and observability tools such as:        Logic Monitor, Thousand Eyes, Moogsoft, Dynatrace, NetBrain, Elastic.

• Experience with data visualization tools such as Tableau, Power BI, Grafana, Nobl9.

• Strong experience in building actionable dashboards in any of the BI Platforms.

• Experience in writing SQL queries to understand or build dashboards.

• Proficiency in AI Natural language processing and graphing

• Experience with one or more general purpose programming languages such as Java, JavaScript, Python, etc.

• Passionate about data and good data evangelist.

What we offer:

• Exciting work in a great team, global projects, international environment

• Opportunity to learn and grow professionally within the company globally

• Hybrid working model, flexible role pattern (e.g. even 80% full-time is possible in justified cases)

• Pension and health insurance contributions

• Internal reward system plus referral programme

• 5 weeks annual leave, 5 sick days, 15 days of certified sick leave paid above statutory requirements annually, 40 paid hours annually for volunteering activities, 12 weeks of parental contribution

• Cafeteria for tax free benefits according to your choice (meal vouchers, Lítačka, sport, culture, health, travel, etc.), Multisport Card

• Vodafone, Raiffeisen Bank, and Mall.cz discount programs

• Parking in the garage, showers, refreshments, massage chairs, library, music corner

• Competitive salary, and many more

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