Elastic Data Engineer: Cybersecurity Telemetry Pipelines

JCS Solutions LLC; Adelphi (MD); Hybrid; USD 135,000 - 162,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Life insurance

Short- and long-term disability

Paid time off (PTO)

401k retirement plan with employer m</

Annual Professional Development Reimb.

And more!

Job summary

JCS Solutions LLC is seeking an Elastic Data Engineer to design, maintain, and optimize enterprise data-ingestion and analytics within a DoD cybersecurity environment. You will manage Elastic Stack pipelines, ingest telemetry, improve data quality, and support dashboards, alerts, and compliance reporting.

This hybrid role requires onsite collaboration several days monthly to support team activities and business needs.

Qualifications

• BS with 4–8 years of relevant experience or Master’s with 2–6 years.
• Active or obtainable DoD TS/SCI clearance.
• Experience designing and managing data pipelines for cybersecurity telemetry.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop data pipelines for cybersecurity, cloud, and infrastructure telemetry.
• Ingest, transform, and normalize data from multiple enterprise sources.
• Create standardized schemas, mappings, and data models.
• Parse complex log formats (JSON/XML/CSV/syslog/Windows logs).
• Implement data-quality controls and enrichment workflows.
• Collaborate with analysts to support threat hunting and incident response.
• Document data sources, schemas, lineage, and onboarding procedures.
• Utilize Python, SQL, PowerShell, Bash, and Git for processing and automation.

Skills

Elasticsearch clusters

Indices & mappings

Data streams

Logstash filters

Index Lifecycle Management

Linux scripting

REST APIs

Security monitoring

Python

PowerShell

Bash

Git

Education

BS in a relevant field

Master’s degree (preferred)

Tools

Elastic Stack

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

JCS Solutions LLC is seeking an Elastic Data Engineer to design, maintain, and optimize enterprise data-ingestion and analytics within a DoD cybersecurity environment. You will manage Elastic Stack pipelines, ingest telemetry, improve data quality, and support dashboards, alerts, and compliance reporting.

This hybrid role requires onsite collaboration several days monthly to support team activities and business needs.