Data Security Engineer - Cyber Data Pipelines (Hybrid)

Leidos; Adelphi (MD); Hybrid; USD 87,000 - 157,000; Full time

Job summary

Leidos is seeking a Data Security Engineer to design, build, and sustain cybersecurity data pipelines that power 24x7 defensive operations. You will ingest, normalize, enrich, and manage high-volume telemetry in Elastic, optimize performance, and automate workflows across Elastic, Kafka, and CI/CD systems.

Hybrid on-site 3 days/week in Adelphi, MD, and requires U.S. Citizenship with an active TS/SCI clearance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 4–8 years of relevant experience or equivalent
• 3+ years of data engineering, data analysis, cybersecurity data engineering, or related experience
• Experience with data ingestion, transformation, normalization, or high-volume data-processing pipelines
• Experience with Elastic Stack, Kafka, Python, Bash, and CI/CD tooling
• Familiarity with Elastic Common Schema (ECS) or similar cybersecurity data models
• U.S. Citizenship with an active TS/SCI clearance and DoD CSSP alignment as applicable
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

Responsibilities

• Design, maintain, and optimize scalable cybersecurity data ingestion and normalization pipelines
• Develop transformations and enrichments for diverse security log and telemetry sources
• Configure and optimize Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, and Fleet for high-volume operations
• Maintain index templates, mappings, schemas, and data models for analytics
• Implement data validation, deduplication, and quality controls for 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 across Kafka, Elastic, and CI/CD tooling
• Partner with cyber teams to support operational requirements
• Maintain technical documentation and engineering artifacts

Skills

Data engineering

Elastic Stack

Kafka

Python

Bash

CI/CD tooling

Data normalization

Education

Bachelor's degree

CSSP Analyst certifications (DoD 8570/8140 aligned)

Tools

Elastic Stack

Kafka

CI/CD tooling

Python

Bash

Job description

Leidos is seeking a Data Security Engineer to design, build, and sustain cybersecurity data pipelines that power 24x7 defensive operations. You will ingest, normalize, enrich, and manage high-volume telemetry in Elastic, optimize performance, and automate workflows across Elastic, Kafka, and CI/CD systems.

Hybrid on-site 3 days/week in Adelphi, MD, and requires U.S. Citizenship with an active TS/SCI clearance.