Cybersecurity Data Engineer (ELK) – Hybrid | TS Clearance

DirectViz Solutions, LLC; Adelphi (MD); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 171,000; Full time

Job summary

DirectViz Solutions, LLC seeks a Cybersecurity Data Engineer in Adelphi, MD, to design, maintain, and optimize data pipelines within the Elastic ecosystem for security analytics and threat detection. This hybrid role requires three days onsite weekly at ALC in Adelphi.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in data engineering or related fields, hands-on ELK Stack experience, and collaboration with security teams to ensure reliable, scalable ETL pipelines and data operations.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in data engineering or related technical fields.
• Experience with Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, and ETL pipelines.
• Ability to optimize data ingestion and processing at scale.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

ELK Stack

ETL Pipelines

Python

Bash

Data Modeling

Cloud Experience

Tools

Elasticsearch

Logstash

Kibana

Job description

DirectViz Solutions, LLC seeks a Cybersecurity Data Engineer in Adelphi, MD, to design, maintain, and optimize data pipelines within the Elastic ecosystem for security analytics and threat detection. This hybrid role requires three days onsite weekly at ALC in Adelphi.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in data engineering or related fields, hands-on ELK Stack experience, and collaboration with security teams to ensure reliable, scalable ETL pipelines and data operations.