Hybrid Data Security Engineer: Threat Analytics & Pipelines

Stryker Corporation; Adelphi, Northern (MD, KY); Hybrid; Confidential; Full time

Job summary

Leidos in Adelphi, Maryland seeks a Data Security Engineer to build and sustain cybersecurity data pipelines for defensive operations. Hybrid on-site 3 days/week, U.S. Citizenship with TS/SCI clearance is required.

You will ingest, normalize, enrich, and manage high-volume security telemetry within Elastic; optimize data quality; automate workflows; and ensure analysts have analytics-ready data for threat detection and response. Collaboration across cyber teams is essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 4–8 years of relevant experience; substitution may be allowed.
• 3+ years of data engineering, 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.
• 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, high-availability operations.
• Maintain index templates, mappings, schemas, and data models supporting analytics and detection logic.
• 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, storage, and query performance.
• 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

Elastic Stack

Kafka

Python

Bash

CI/CD tooling

DoD 8570/8140

TS/SCI clearance

U.S. Citizenship

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher

CSSP Analyst certifications

Tools

Elastic Stack

Kafka

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Leidos in Adelphi, Maryland seeks a Data Security Engineer to build and sustain cybersecurity data pipelines for defensive operations. Hybrid on-site 3 days/week, U.S. Citizenship with TS/SCI clearance is required.

You will ingest, normalize, enrich, and manage high-volume security telemetry within Elastic; optimize data quality; automate workflows; and ensure analysts have analytics-ready data for threat detection and response. Collaboration across cyber teams is essential.