Cybersecurity Data Engineer - Elastic Stack (TS Clearance)

Cyberculture; Hyattsville (MD); Hybrid; USD 83,000 - 103,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid schedule with 2 remote days per

Job summary

CyberCulture, based in Adelphi, MD, is seeking a Cybersecurity Data Engineer (Elastic/ELK) with active Top Secret clearance. This contract role is on-site three days per week at ALC Adelphi, with two remote days.

The candidate should have ELK stack experience and be able to develop and run high-volume data pipelines for DoD cybersecurity operations. Responsibilities include building ETL pipelines, maintaining index templates and data models, and automating workflows with Python and Bash.

Qualifications

• Active Top Secret clearance
• Journeyman or Senior level with ELK admin or software development background
• Hands-on Elastic stack experience including Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Fleet
• Experience building and maintaining ETL pipelines for log/telemetry data
• Experience with index templates, mappings, and schema design
• Scripting skills in Python and Bash
• Able to work on-site in Adelphi, MD three days per week

Responsibilities

• Configure and optimize data ingestion, storage, and retrieval in the Elastic ecosystem for high-volume operations
• Design and optimize scalable cybersecurity ETL pipelines using Elastic
• Develop transformations and enrichments for security logs and telemetry
• Maintain index templates, mappings, and data models for analytics and detection
• Implement data validation, deduplication, and quality controls
• Automate ingestion, transformation, and engineering workflows with Python and Bash
• Monitor pipeline and indexing performance, troubleshoot data flow issues
• Maintain traceability across Kafka, Elastic, and CI/CD tooling
• Collaborate with Detection Engineering and Threat Analysis teams
• Maintain technical documentation and SOPs

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Elastic stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Fleet)

ETL pipelines

Python

Bash

Job description

CyberCulture, based in Adelphi, MD, is seeking a Cybersecurity Data Engineer (Elastic/ELK) with active Top Secret clearance. This contract role is on-site three days per week at ALC Adelphi, with two remote days.

The candidate should have ELK stack experience and be able to develop and run high-volume data pipelines for DoD cybersecurity operations. Responsibilities include building ETL pipelines, maintaining index templates and data models, and automating workflows with Python and Bash.