Cybersecurity Data Engineer: TS Clearance, Elastic Pipelines

Special-Aerospace-Security-Services-Inc; Fort Meade (MD); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Special-Aerospace-Security-Services-Inc is seeking a Cybersecurity Data Engineer to design and optimize data pipelines within the Elastic stack for high-volume security operations. You will develop transformations for various log sources, maintain indices and data models, and ensure data quality across ingestion and processing stages.

Collaborating with Detection Engineering, Threat Analysis, and Endpoint teams, you will support operational requirements and contribute to documentation and

Qualifications

• Experience configuring and optimizing data ingestion, storage, and retrieval within the Elastic stack.
• Design and maintain scalable cybersecurity ETL pipelines using Elastic tools.
• Develop transformations and enrichments for diverse security log sources.
• Maintain index templates, mappings, schemas, and data models for analytics/detection.

Responsibilities

• 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 support operational requirements.
• Maintain technical documentation, SOPs, and engineering artifacts.

Skills

Data engineering

ETL pipelines

Python scripting

Analytical thinking

Tools

Elasticsearch

Logstash

Kibana

Fleet

Kafka

Job description

Special-Aerospace-Security-Services-Inc is seeking a Cybersecurity Data Engineer to design and optimize data pipelines within the Elastic stack for high-volume security operations. You will develop transformations for various log sources, maintain indices and data models, and ensure data quality across ingestion and processing stages.

Collaborating with Detection Engineering, Threat Analysis, and Endpoint teams, you will support operational requirements and contribute to documentation and