Cybersecurity Data Engineer
August Schell Enterprises4 days ago
Adelphi, MD, USASenior
Base Salary
$150k - $180k/yr
Responsibilities
- Configure and optimize cybersecurity data ingestion, storage, and retrieval within the Elastic ecosystem.
- Design, maintain, and optimize scalable cybersecurity ETL pipelines.
- Develop transformations and enrichments for security logs and telemetry sources.
- Maintain index templates, mappings, schemas, and data models supporting analytics and detection logic.
- Implement data validation, deduplication, and quality controls to ensure data integrity.
- Automate ingestion, transformation, and engineering workflows using Python, Bash, and related tools.
- Monitor pipeline and indexing performance, troubleshoot data-flow issues, and optimize throughput, storage, and query performance.
- Maintain traceability and troubleshoot dependencies across Kafka, Elastic, and CI/CD tooling.
- Collaborate with Detection Engineering, Threat Analysis, Endpoint, and other cybersecurity teams.
- Maintain technical documentation, standard operating procedures, and engineering artifacts.
Requirements
- Active Top Secret security clearance.
- Strong experience with the Elastic Stack, including Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, and Fleet.
- Experience designing, developing, and optimizing scalable data ingestion and ETL pipelines.
- Ability to work onsite three days per week at ALC in Adelphi, Maryland.
- Experience with Kafka, Python and Bash automation, CI/CD, or DevSecOps practices is preferred.
- Experience working with Ruby is preferred.
- Experience supporting AWS, Azure, GCP, Oracle Cloud, hybrid-cloud, or multi-cloud environments is preferred.
- Knowledge of cybersecurity operations, including SIEM, threat detection, incident response, and security monitoring, is preferred.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement with three days onsite per week in Adelphi, Maryland.
- Competitive benefits package including health insurance, retirement savings plans, paid time off, and professional development opportunities.
Tech Stack
Categories
Data Engineering
About August Schell Enterprises
August Schell Enterprises provides cybersecurity consulting and systems integration for enterprises and U.S. government agencies, with offerings spanning identity management, cloud and data center security, endpoint management, and security event monitoring. The privately held firm, founded in 1991 and headquartered in Rockville, Maryland, designs and implements secure on‑premises and cloud environments. Its teams often support cleared federal initiatives in enterprise security architecture, compliance, and secure system implementation.