Cybersecurity Data Engineer: Elastic Stack (Hybrid)

VAE, Inc.; Adelphi (MD); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

VAE, Inc. is seeking a Cybersecurity Data Engineer to design, build, and optimize data pipelines powering cyber defense on the C5ISR contract. Working with Elastic Stack, you will ingest, enrich, and make security logs accessible for detection and incident response.

This hybrid role requires three days per week on-site at Adelphi, MD. You will collaborate with Detection Engineering, Threat Analysis, and Endpoint teams to turn raw data into mission-ready insights, maintain data models, and ensure

Qualifications

• 8570 certification required.
• Hands‑on experience administering and engineering solutions within the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Fleet).
• Experience building and maintaining ETL or data pipelines for log and telemetry data.
• Working knowledge of index management, mappings, and data modeling.
• Ability to work on-site at ALC in Adelphi, MD, three days per week.

Responsibilities

• Configure and optimize data ingestion, storage, and retrieval across the Elastic Stack to support high-volume operations.
• Design, maintain, and optimize scalable cybersecurity ETL pipelines using Elastic tools.
• Develop transformations and enrichments for diverse security log and telemetry sources.
• Maintain index templates, mappings, schemas, and data models that support 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.
• Maintain traceability and troubleshoot dependencies across Kafka, Elastic, and CI/CD tooling.
• Partner with Detection Engineering, Threat Analysis, Endpoint, and other cyber teams to meet operational requirements.
• Maintain technical documentation, SOPs, and engineering artifacts.

Skills

8570 certification

Elastic Stack

ETL pipelines

Data modeling

On-site work

Tools

Python

Bash

Kafka

CI/CD

Job description

VAE, Inc. is seeking a Cybersecurity Data Engineer to design, build, and optimize data pipelines powering cyber defense on the C5ISR contract. Working with Elastic Stack, you will ingest, enrich, and make security logs accessible for detection and incident response.

This hybrid role requires three days per week on-site at Adelphi, MD. You will collaborate with Detection Engineering, Threat Analysis, and Endpoint teams to turn raw data into mission-ready insights, maintain data models, and ensure