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The Data Security Engineer joins the Cyber Security Service Provider team to build, optimize, and sustain cybersecurity data pipelines for defensive cyber operations. This role involves ingesting, normalizing, and enriching high-volume security telemetry to provide reliable, analytics-ready data for threat detection and response. You will design and maintain scalable ingestion pipelines, manage index templates and schemas, and implement data validation and deduplication controls. Key responsibilities include automating workflows and troubleshooting dependencies across complex systems. You will utilize a technical stack including the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, and Fleet), Kafka, Python, Bash, and CI/CD tooling. The work focuses on supporting continuous monitoring and incident response across cloud and on-premises environments, including AWS, Azure, GCP, and Oracle Cloud platforms.
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Containerization
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Colorado Springs, CO+2126 days ago
$86,800–$198,000
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