Elastic Security Engineer (Contract) - Scale Security Data

G-Research; Greater London; Vor Ort; GBP 90.000 - 120.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Highly competitive compensation

Lunch provided (Just Eat for Business)

Barista bar

Monthly company events

Zusammenfassung

G-Research in London is seeking an Elastic Security Engineer to shape security data pipelines and Elastic SIEM implementations. You will own onboarding, tuning, and evolution of telemetry across cloud, hybrid, and corporate environments, combining software engineering with data engineering to secure research platforms.

The role collaborates with SOC, CSIRT, Detection Engineering and Platform teams, applying automation and IaC to improve data quality and monitoring, threat hunting and compliance.

Qualifikationen

• Strong experience with Elastic Stack and data engineering technologies such as Logstash, Beats, Kafka or similar.
• Expertise in Elastic data modelling, indexing and performance optimisation.
• Experience designing scalable log collection and processing architectures.

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.

Kenntnisse

Elastic data engineering

Security data quality

Communication

Mentoring

Strategic thinking

Tools

Elastic Stack

Logstash

Beats

Kafka

Jobbeschreibung

G-Research in London is seeking an Elastic Security Engineer to shape security data pipelines and Elastic SIEM implementations. You will own onboarding, tuning, and evolution of telemetry across cloud, hybrid, and corporate environments, combining software engineering with data engineering to secure research platforms.

The role collaborates with SOC, CSIRT, Detection Engineering and Platform teams, applying automation and IaC to improve data quality and monitoring, threat hunting and compliance.