Data Security Engineer: Cloud Telemetry & Pipelines

Quest Oracle Community; Adelphi (MD); Hybrid; USD 87,000 - 157,000; Full time

Job summary

Leidos is seeking a Data Security Engineer to design, optimize, and sustain cybersecurity data pipelines that support DoD mission operations. You will ingest, normalize, enrich, and manage high-volume security telemetry across Elastic, Kafka, and CI/CD environments. The role is hybrid on-site three days per week in Adelphi, Maryland, and requires U.S.

citizenship with an active TS/SCI clearance. You will collaborate with Detection Engineering and Threat Analysis teams to ensure analysts have

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 4–8 years of related experience, or equivalent.
• Experience building and sustaining data pipelines for security telemetry.
• Proficiency with Elastic Stack, Kafka, Python, Bash, and CI/CD tooling.

Responsibilities

• Design, maintain, and optimize cybersecurity data ingestion and normalization pipelines.
• Develop transformations and enrichments for diverse security logs and telemetry sources.
• Configure and optimize Elastic Stack components for high-volume operations.
• Maintain data models, mappings, and schemas supporting analytics and detection logic.
• Automate ingestion and engineering workflows using Python and Bash.
• Monitor pipeline performance and troubleshoot data-flow issues across systems.

Skills

Elastic Stack

Kafka

Python

Bash

CI/CD

ECS

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Elasticsearch

Logstash

Kibana

Fleet

Job description

Leidos is seeking a Data Security Engineer to design, optimize, and sustain cybersecurity data pipelines that support DoD mission operations. You will ingest, normalize, enrich, and manage high-volume security telemetry across Elastic, Kafka, and CI/CD environments. The role is hybrid on-site three days per week in Adelphi, Maryland, and requires U.S.

citizenship with an active TS/SCI clearance. You will collaborate with Detection Engineering and Threat Analysis teams to ensure analysts have