Cyber Security Engineer VP - Data Pipelines & SIEM

SMBC; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Accommodations during candidacy

Job summary

SMBC Group seeks a Cyber Security Engineer, VP, to design and maintain security data pipelines that support monitoring, threat detection, incident response, compliance, and cyber risk visibility across cloud and on-prem environments. You will work with application, infrastructure, cloud, and security teams to ensure critical telemetry is collected, validated, and usable for operations and analytics.

This role emphasizes data quality, scalable solutions, and strict governance in a regulated

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in cybersecurity, data engineering, security operations, or a related technology discipline.
• Experience onboarding, managing, and validating security log sources within SIEM, security analytics, or cloud data platforms.
• Experience coordinating data onboarding efforts across technical teams, vendors, and business partners.
• Strong knowledge of data parsing, normalization, transformation, and validation techniques.
• Experience working with structured and unstructured data formats, including JSON, XML, CSV, and log-based telemetry.
• Ability to identify and resolve data quality, schema, and pipeline performance issues.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms and related logging, monitoring, and analytics services.
• Understanding of logging, retention, auditability, and data integrity requirements in regulated environments.
• Experience with scripting or automation using Python, PowerShell, or similar technologies.
• Familiarity with query languages used to investigate, validate, and analyze ingested security data.
• Strong communication, collaboration, and documentation skills.
• Strong attention to detail, sound judgment, and accountability for outcomes.
• Ability to balance operational support, project delivery, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable data ingestion pipelines for security log onboarding into SIEM platforms and cloud data services, including Azure Data Explorer and Log Analytics.
• Parse, transform, normalize, enrich, and validate structured and unstructured log data using methods such as JSON parsing, regular expressions, and schema mapping.
• Partner with application, infrastructure, cloud, and security teams to onboard new telemetry sources and verify end-to-end data collection.
• Monitor and validate data quality, including log completeness, integrity, timeliness, and consistency across onboarded sources.
• Troubleshoot ingestion, parsing, transformation, and pipeline issues across cloud and on-premises environments.
• Conduct telemetry gap assessments and recommend new data sources to improve security monitoring and detection coverage.
• Develop and maintain documentation including onboarding procedures, data mappings, source requirements, pipeline configurations, and operational processes.
• Improve automation, ingestion frameworks, and deployment processes to increase scalability, reliability, efficiency, and cost effectiveness.

Skills

Cybersecurity

Data engineering

SIEM

Data pipelines

Python scripting

Cloud platforms

Tools

Azure Data Explorer

Log Analytics

Job description

SMBC Group seeks a Cyber Security Engineer, VP, to design and maintain security data pipelines that support monitoring, threat detection, incident response, compliance, and cyber risk visibility across cloud and on-prem environments. You will work with application, infrastructure, cloud, and security teams to ensure critical telemetry is collected, validated, and usable for operations and analytics.

This role emphasizes data quality, scalable solutions, and strict governance in a regulated