Hybrid Elastic Data Engineer for Cyber Telemetry & SIEM

Jcssolutions; Adelphi (MD); Hybrid; USD 135,000 - 162,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, vision insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

PTO

401k with employer match

Professional Development Reimbursement

Job summary

JCS Solutions is seeking an Elastic Data Engineer to design, maintain, and optimize data ingestion and analytics in a DoD cybersecurity environment. You will manage Elastic Stack pipelines, integrate telemetry, improve data quality, and support dashboards, alerting, and incident response.

This hybrid role requires onsite collaboration several days monthly to meet business needs and strengthen the team. Candidates should have DoD clearance eligibility and robust Elasticsearch experience.

Qualifications

• BS with 4-8 years of relevant experience or MS with 2-6 years of experience.
• Active or obtainable DoD TS/SCI clearance.
• Experience designing and implementing Elastic Stack data pipelines for cybersecurity telemetry.
• Strong understanding of data models, schemas, and ETL/ELT processes.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop data pipelines for cybersecurity and telemetry data.
• Ingest, transform, normalize, and route structured and unstructured data from multiple sources.
• Create and maintain standardized data schemas, mappings, and data models.
• Parse log formats including JSON, XML, CSV, syslog, Windows Event Logs.
• Develop data quality controls to identify missing or duplicate records.
• Collaborate with analysts to support threat hunting, alerting, and incident response.

Skills

Data engineering

Troubleshooting

Documentation

Communication

Cybersecurity telemetry

Python

SQL

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Tools

Elasticsearch

Logstash

Kibana

Elastic Agent

Beats

REST APIs

Git

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Job description

JCS Solutions is seeking an Elastic Data Engineer to design, maintain, and optimize data ingestion and analytics in a DoD cybersecurity environment. You will manage Elastic Stack pipelines, integrate telemetry, improve data quality, and support dashboards, alerting, and incident response.

This hybrid role requires onsite collaboration several days monthly to meet business needs and strengthen the team. Candidates should have DoD clearance eligibility and robust Elasticsearch experience.