Security Data Pipeline Engineer - Observability (Remote)

GuidePoint Security, LLC; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote workforce (U.S. based)

Group Medical Insurance options

Group Dental Insurance

12 corporate holidays

Flexible Time Off

Mobile phone and home internet stipend

Retirement plan eligibility

Pet Benefit Option

Job summary

GuidePoint Security, LLC is seeking a data/telemetry engineer to design and optimize secure data pipelines across on-prem, cloud, and hybrid environments. You will onboard and normalize data from diverse sources, implement cost-efficient processing, and present business-focused outcomes to executive stakeholders.

Your work will support SIEM and analytics deployments, with emphasis on data quality, governance, and scalable architecture to serve government and enterprise clients.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in cybersecurity, IT operations, or data engineering, with 3+ years building telemetry pipelines.
• Hands-on production experience with Cribl Stream or a comparable pipeline platform.
• Working knowledge of at least one SIEM or analytics destination (Splunk, Elastic, Microsoft Sentinel, Google SecOps, CrowdStrike, or SentinelOne).
• Client-facing delivery experience in a services firm, VAR, SI or vendor team, or equivalent.
• Linux administration and networking fundamentals; cloud logging in AWS/Azure/GCP.
• Scripting and data skills: JavaScript, Python, or Bash; REST APIs; JSON/CSV/XML.
• Ability to engage senior leadership and translate technical work into business terms.
• Cribl Certified User and Cribl Certified Admin (Stream).
• Openness to AI tools and evolving tech to improve outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Architect, deploy, and optimize telemetry pipelines with Cribl Stream and related platforms.
• Onboard, parse, and normalize data from syslog, cloud logs, SaaS APIs, identity sources, and EDR.
• Build reduction, filtering, enrichment, and tiering strategies for high-value data.
• Quantify ingest baselines, model savings, and present outcomes to stakeholders.
• Brief senior leadership on findings with business-focused recommendations.
• Size and harden deployments for HA/DR, backpressure, and fleet health.
• Govern data flow with masking, RBAC, TLS/PKI, and retention policies.
• Lead data workstreams of SIEM and platform migrations.
• Deliver pipeline health checks and actionable roadmaps.
• Collaborate with vendor teams and contribute to best practices.

Skills

Client-facing

Executive communication

Data engineering

Cybersecurity fundamentals

Cloud environments

Tools

Cribl Stream

SentinelOne Threat pipelines

CrowdStrike

Splunk

Elastic

Microsoft Sentinel

OpenTelemetry Collector

Job description

GuidePoint Security, LLC is seeking a data/telemetry engineer to design and optimize secure data pipelines across on-prem, cloud, and hybrid environments. You will onboard and normalize data from diverse sources, implement cost-efficient processing, and present business-focused outcomes to executive stakeholders.

Your work will support SIEM and analytics deployments, with emphasis on data quality, governance, and scalable architecture to serve government and enterprise clients.