Remote Position
[Remote] Cyber Security Engineer – Data Engineer - Remote
🌍 Remote · United Kingdom
💼 Full-time
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. SMBC is hiring a Cyber Security Engineer – Data Engineer to strengthen its monitoring, detection, and response capabilities. The role builds and maintains security data pipelines, onboards and validates telemetry across cloud and on-premises environments, and partners with security and technology teams to support threat detection and incident response.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain scalable data ingestion pipelines for onboarding security log sources into SIEM and cloud data platforms, including Azure Data Explorer and Log Analytics
- Parse, normalize, transform, and enrich structured and unstructured log data using techniques such as regex, JSON parsing, schema mapping, and data validation
- Partner with application owners, infrastructure teams, cloud teams, vendors, and security stakeholders to onboard new log sources and confirm end-to-end data flow
- Validate log integrity, completeness, timeliness, and quality to ensure security telemetry is reliable and fit for use cases
- Align onboarded data to organizational standards, schemas, naming conventions, and data governance expectations
- Troubleshoot ingestion, parsing, transformation, and pipeline issues across diverse log sources, platforms, and environments
- Develop and maintain documentation for log onboarding procedures, data mappings, and pipeline configurations
- Collaborate with detection engineering and SOC teams to ensure onboarded logs support threat detection and investigation requirements
- Conduct telemetry gap analysis to identify missing or incomplete data sources and recommend onboarding priorities
- Support logging and data collection practices that align with regulatory, audit, and compliance requirements
- Improve ingestion frameworks, automation, and onboarding workflows to increase efficiency and scalability
- Monitor pipeline performance and partner with stakeholders to optimize ingestion reliability, throughput, and cost efficiency
- Stay current on emerging logging standards, telemetry formats, and cybersecurity data engineering practices
Skills
- Minimum of 3 years of relevant experience in cybersecurity, data engineering, log management, or security operations
- Hands-on experience onboarding, managing, and validating log sources in SIEM, cloud data platforms, or security analytics environments
- Strong understanding of data parsing, normalization, and transformation techniques, including regex, JSON, XML, and CSV
- Familiarity with common security telemetry sources, including network, endpoint, identity, application, cloud, and infrastructure logs
- Experience with cloud platforms and associated logging, monitoring, and analytics services
- Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills related to data pipelines, ingestion flows, and data quality defects
- Understanding of compliance and regulatory expectations related to logging, retention, and data integrity
- Experience with scripting or automation tools such as Python or PowerShell is preferred
- Familiarity with query languages used to validate, investigate, and analyze ingested data
- Ability to plan, coordinate, and execute onboarding efforts across multiple teams and stakeholders
- Experience in broader cybersecurity disciplines, including threat detection, incident response, or cloud security, is a plus
- Ability to work effectively and collaboratively in a global team environment
- Strong communication skills, sound judgment, and a high degree of accountability
Benefits
- Remote work
- For contract roles: Access to hundreds of clients, most who have been working with Genesis10 for 5-20 years.
- For contract roles: The opportunity to have a career-home in Genesis10; many of our consultants have been working exclusively with Genesis10 for years.
- For contract roles: Access to an experienced, caring recruiting team (more than 7 years of experience, on average.)
- For contract roles: Behavioral Health Platform
- For contract roles: Medical, Dental, Vision
- For contract roles: Health Savings Account
- For contract roles: Voluntary Hospital Indemnity (Critical Illness & Accident)
- For contract roles: Voluntary Term Life Insurance
- For contract roles: 401K
- For contract roles: Sick Pay (for applicable states/municipalities)
- For contract roles: Commuter Benefits (Dallas, NYC, SF, and Illinois)
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