Elastic Security Engineer (Contract) - Data Telemetry SME

G-Research; City Of London; Vor Ort; GBP 90.000 - 130.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Highly competitive compensation

Lunch provided and barista bar

Informal dress code and work-life-baln

Monthly company events

Zusammenfassung

G-Research is seeking an Elastic Security Engineer to shape security data platforms and tooling from our London headquarters. You will combine security data expertise with software engineering to enable scalable, reliable data pipelines for monitoring, threat detection and compliance across cloud and hybrid environments.

You will own onboarding, tuning and evolution of security telemetry, collaborating with SOC, CSIRT and Platform teams, applying Python or Bash scripting to automate ingestion

Qualifikationen

• Strong experience with Elastic Stack and data engineering technologies such as Logstash, Beats, Kafka or similar.
• Elastic data modelling, indexing and performance optimisation.
• Experience designing scalable log collection and processing architectures.
• Knowledge of data governance, retention and security telemetry across cloud, endpoint and network.
• Experience with Azure, AWS, GCP or hybrid environments.
• Strategic mindset with a focus on long‑term data quality and platform evolution.
• Strong communication skills, with ability to explain complex concepts to technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Collaborative approach with experience mentoring others and working across teams to improve security outcomes.

Aufgaben

• Acting as the technical authority and SME for security data within the Elastic Security ecosystem.
• Designing, implementing and maintaining scalable security data ingestion pipelines into Elastic SIEM.
• Owning the onboarding, tuning, normalisation and stabilisation of security data feeds across cloud, endpoint, network and SaaS sources.
• Defining and continuously improving data quality standards to support detection, investigation and threat hunting.
• Contributing to the operation, performance and evolution of the Elastic Security platform.
• Applying software engineering and scripting skills, including in Python or Bash, to automate ingestion, validation, monitoring and operational workflows.
• Supporting configuration as code and infrastructure as code to improve consistency and scalability across security tooling.
• Driving the development of a security data strategy aligned with business and regulatory requirements.

Kenntnisse

Elastic Stack

Data engineering

Security data pipelines

Data modelling

Cloud security

Strategic thinking

Communication

Mentoring

Tools

Logstash

Beats

Kafka

Elastic Stack

Elasticsearch

Jobbeschreibung

G-Research is seeking an Elastic Security Engineer to shape security data platforms and tooling from our London headquarters. You will combine security data expertise with software engineering to enable scalable, reliable data pipelines for monitoring, threat detection and compliance across cloud and hybrid environments.

You will own onboarding, tuning and evolution of security telemetry, collaborating with SOC, CSIRT and Platform teams, applying Python or Bash scripting to automate ingestion