DoD Data Engineer - Edge & Telemetry Analytics (SITEC)

Peraton; Kaneohe (HI); On-site; USD 112,000 - 179,000; Full time

Job summary

Peraton is seeking a Data Engineer to support the SITEC-3 Enterprise Operations and Maintenance tasks at Camp H.M. Smith, HI. The role focuses on building and maintaining data ingestion pipelines, edge processing, and standardized tagging for secure telemetry across enterprise deployments.

The engineer will leverage platforms for data lineage, storage tiering, and compliant telemetry integration to support threat hunting, reporting, and DoD requirements. Strong DoD credentials are required.

Qualifications

• Minimum years of experience per education level are listed: HS 12 yrs, AS/AA 10 yrs, BS/BA 8 yrs, MS/MA 6 yrs.
• DoD 8570 IAT II Certification required.
• DoD TS/SCI clearance required.

Responsibilities

• Engineer, configure, and maintain robust data onboarding pipelines to ingest structured and unstructured telemetry into the enterprise deployment.
• Implement and optimize Universal Forwarders, Heavy Forwarders, and Edge Processors to manage data routing, filtering, and masking at the enterprise edge.
• Design and implement standardized data tagging and field extraction schemas, mapping incoming data sources to the CIM to ensure downstream security tool readiness.
• Develop data onboarding processes, tag schemas, and enrichment to support advanced threat hunting and compliance reporting.
• Troubleshoot complex data parsing, event breaking, and time-stamping issues to guarantee search performance and minimize ingest-to-search latency.
• Collaborate with enterprise architects and network engineers to establish secure, encrypted transport pathways (e.g., Syslog, HEC).
• Design data reduction strategies and edge-filtering policies to optimize licensing costs while retaining critical logs per DoD compliance mandates.
• Maintain documentation including data flow diagrams, ingestion matrices, and data taxonomy schemas for onboarded sources.
• Develop routing solutions across TAK, TRAX, Compass, CDS, MSS, and cloud platforms using data schemas like PLI, FMV, CoT.

Skills

DoD 8570 IAT II Certification

DoD TS/SCI clearance

Python

PowerShell

Education

HS degree

AS/AA degree

BS/BA degree

MS/MA degree

Tools

Splunk Edge Processors

Splunk Heavy Forwarders

Apache Kafka

Apache NiFi

syslog-ng

Rsyslog

Job description

Peraton is seeking a Data Engineer to support the SITEC-3 Enterprise Operations and Maintenance tasks at Camp H.M. Smith, HI. The role focuses on building and maintaining data ingestion pipelines, edge processing, and standardized tagging for secure telemetry across enterprise deployments.

The engineer will leverage platforms for data lineage, storage tiering, and compliant telemetry integration to support threat hunting, reporting, and DoD requirements. Strong DoD credentials are required.