Data Scientist

About the role

Day-to-day: Apply statistical modeling to transaction and TCP telemetry data to identify anomalous traffic patterns and behavioral anomalies using time-series analysis and clustering techniques

You'll bring: 7-10 years of work experience; expertise in statistical modeling, anomaly detection, time-series analysis, and classification models

Good fit if: Experience with agentic AI workflows, DDoS detection, model validation, false-positive reduction, or productionizing models in engineering environments

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About Client:
The client is a global provider of digital business transformation, digital engineering, and information technology (IT) outsourcing services that accelerate our clients journey to their digital future. The company readily understands its clients' business challenges and uses its domain expertise to deliver innovative applications of technology to address their critical business challenges.
It helps clients execute successful end-to-end digital business transformation initiatives.

Rate Range: $65-$70/Hr

Job Description:

• Apply statistical modeling and data science techniques to transaction and TCP L4 telemetry to identify anomalous traffic and behavioral patterns.
• Build behavioral baselines and anomaly detection models using time-series analysis, clustering, correlation, outlier detection and statistical thresholds.
• Engineer features from transaction, connection, velocity, retry, batch and historical alert data to improve detection accuracy.
• Develop statistical scoring and classification models to differentiate legitimate, duplicate, retry, anomalous and potential DDoS activity.
• Analyze historical incidents and alerts to optimize detection thresholds and reduce false positives.
• Integrate statistical detection signals into agentic AI investigation workflows for automated correlation, investigation and evidence generation.
• Validate models using historical and simulated traffic scenarios and measure precision, recall, false-positive/false-negative rates and detection latency.
• Monitor model performance, behavioral drift and changes in traffic patterns and continuously tune detection algorithms.
• Partner with engineering and operations teams to productionize models and provide explainable, statistically grounded recommendations to human investigators
• Work Experience 7-10Years

About ApTask:
ApTask is a leading global provider of workforce solutions and talent acquisition services, dedicated to shaping the future of work. As an African American-owned and Veteran-owned company, ApTask offers a comprehensive suite of services, including staffing and recruitment solutions, managed services, IT consulting, and project management. With a focus on excellence, collaboration, and innovation, ApTask provides unparalleled opportunities for professional growth and development. As a member of the ApTask team, you will have the chance to connect businesses with top-tier professionals, optimize workforce performance, and drive success across diverse industries. Join us at ApTask and be part of our mission to empower organizations to thrive while fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment.

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About technology at ApTask

Technology roles at ApTask cover the software, cloud, data, security, and platform-engineering functions that power Fortune 500 digital operations. Our recruiters specialize in high-signal technical calibration — every candidate is validated against the specific stack, framework versions, and deployment context the client runs, not a keyword match. Our largest engagements sit inside AWS, Azure, GCP, Snowflake, Databricks, and modern data-mesh estates. Because we route through Fieldglass, Beeline, Workday VNDLY, and Coupa VMS, technology contractors placed through ApTask carry MBE diversity spend against the client's supplier program while remaining W-2 with full benefits under our payroll.