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Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations.
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The Data Security Engineer joins the Cyber Security Service Provider team to build, optimize, and sustain cybersecurity data pipelines that power defensive operations across cloud and on-premises environments. This role involves ingesting, normalizing, and enriching high-volume security telemetry while managing data performance and quality within Elastic. The engineer will develop transformations for diverse log sources, manage index templates and schemas, and automate workflows using Python and Bash. Key responsibilities include troubleshooting dependencies across Kafka and CI/CD systems to ensure analysts have reliable, analytics-ready data for threat detection. Technical requirements include proficiency with the Elastic Stack, including Logstash, Kibana, and Fleet, as well as experience with Elastic Common Schema. The role addresses the critical challenge of providing continuous monitoring and incident response within a complex multi-cloud infrastructure to support Department of War missions.
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