Senior Elastic Data Engineer - Cyber Analytics & Ingest

JCS Solutions LLC; Hyattsville (MD); On-site; USD 135,000 - 162,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

PTO

401k with employer match

Professional development reimbursement

Job summary

JCS Solutions' C5ISR Center CSSP Cloud Operations Team is seeking an Elastic Data Engineer to design, maintain, and optimize data-ingestion, analytics, and monitoring using the Elastic Stack to support threat detection and incident response.

Location: Aldelphi, MD with active TS/SCI clearance. Salary range $135,000–$162,000. You will collaborate with cybersecurity analysts and infrastructure teams to onboard data sources and deliver actionable insights.

Qualifications

• BS degree with 4-8 years of relevant experience or MS with 2-6 years.
• Active DoD TS/SCI clearance or ability to obtain.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain data pipelines for cybersecurity, cloud, network, endpoint, application, identity, and infrastructure telemetry.
• Collect, ingest, transform, normalize, enrich, and route structured and unstructured data from enterprise sources.
• Develop and maintain data schemas, mappings, standards, and models, including ECS alignment.
• Parse and process complex log formats such as JSON, XML, CSV, syslog, Windows Event Logs.
• Implement data quality controls, cleansing, reconciliation, and enrichment processes.
• Collaborate with cybersecurity analysts and infrastructure teams to onboard data sources and support threat hunting and reporting.
• Document data sources, schemas, lineage, governance, retention, and onboarding procedures.

Skills

Elastic Stack

Data ingestion pipelines

Elasticsearch architecture

Log formats (JSON/XML/CSV)

Linux scripting

REST APIs

Security monitoring

Public/Private cloud exposure

Education

BS degree (4-8 yrs)

MS degree (2-6 yrs)

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Kafka

Git

Job description

JCS Solutions' C5ISR Center CSSP Cloud Operations Team is seeking an Elastic Data Engineer to design, maintain, and optimize data-ingestion, analytics, and monitoring using the Elastic Stack to support threat detection and incident response.

Location: Aldelphi, MD with active TS/SCI clearance. Salary range $135,000–$162,000. You will collaborate with cybersecurity analysts and infrastructure teams to onboard data sources and deliver actionable insights.