TS/SCI Cleared Elastic Data Engineer

JCS Solutions LLC; Capitol Heights (MD); On-site; 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 <i>

Job summary

JCS Solutions LLC is seeking an Elastic Data Engineer to design, maintain, and optimize ingestion, analytics, and monitoring of cybersecurity telemetry in a DoD environment. You will work with diverse data sources, ensure data quality, and deliver actionable insights for security analysts.

The role requires TS/SCI clearance or ability to obtain, and offers a competitive salary with comprehensive benefits. Located in Aldelphi, MD, the position emphasizes high-volume, near-real-time data

Qualifications

• BS degree with 4–8 years of relevant experience or MS degree with 2–6 years of relevant experience.
• Active DoD TS/SCI clearance or ability to obtain one.
• Experience designing high-volume logging pipelines for security telemetry and observability.
• Proficiency with Python, SQL, PowerShell, Bash, Git, and testing practices.
• Strong knowledge of Elastic Stack architecture and ECS alignment.

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 JSON, XML, CSV, syslog, Windows Event Logs, and custom data formats.
• Implement data quality controls, cleansing, reconciliation, deduplication, and enrichment processes.
• Collaborate with analysts, engineering, and infra teams to onboard sources and support threat hunting, incident response, and reporting.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Problem solving

Team collaboration

Communication

Documentation

Education

BS/MS in CS/CE/IS

Tools

Elastic Stack

Elasticsearch

Logstash

Kibana

Elastic Agent

Fleet

Beats

Git

REST APIs

Python

SQL

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

JCS Solutions LLC is seeking an Elastic Data Engineer to design, maintain, and optimize ingestion, analytics, and monitoring of cybersecurity telemetry in a DoD environment. You will work with diverse data sources, ensure data quality, and deliver actionable insights for security analysts.

The role requires TS/SCI clearance or ability to obtain, and offers a competitive salary with comprehensive benefits. Located in Aldelphi, MD, the position emphasizes high-volume, near-real-time data