Senior Security Engineer – Data Pipeline & Observability - Mid-Atlantic region (Remote)

The role

You will design and build telemetry pipelines to solve security data growth and inconsistency problems. You will work with vendor partners and account teams to optimize data integration, normalization, and routing.

What you will do

• Architect, deploy, and optimize telemetry pipelines with Cribl and comparable platforms
• Onboard, parse, and normalize data from various sources into common schemas
• Build reduction, filtering, enrichment, and tiering strategies
• Quantify business cases and present results to technical and financial stakeholders
• Brief client senior leadership on findings and recommendations
• Size and harden deployments across various environments
• Build governance into data flow with masking, redaction, and access control
• Lead the data workstream of SIEM and platform migrations
• Deliver pipeline health checks and optimization assessments
• Support pre-sales by joining scoping calls and estimating effort

Required qualifications

• 5+ years in cybersecurity, IT operations, or data engineering
• 3+ years building and running production telemetry pipelines
• Hands-on production experience with Cribl Stream or a comparable pipeline platform
• Working knowledge of at least one SIEM or analytics destination
• Client-facing delivery experience as a consultant or equivalent internal role
• Linux administration and networking fundamentals
• Logging services in at least one cloud (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• JavaScript, Python, or Bash
• Regular expressions
• REST APIs
• JSON, key-value, CSV, and XML formats
• Cribl Certified User and Cribl Certified Admin (Stream) held at hire or earned within 90 days

Nice to have

• Experience at a VAR, systems integrator, or MSSP working within vendor partner programs
• Technical writing experience
• Delivery experience on more than one pipeline platform
• Cribl Certified Admin (Edge)
• Splunk Certified Admin or Architect
• Elastic Certified Engineer
• SentinelOne AI Data Pipelines
• Cloud certifications (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Kubernetes and containers
• Terraform or Ansible

Benefits

• Remote workforce primarily
• Group Medical Insurance options
• Group Dental Insurance
• 12 corporate holidays
• Flexible Time Off (FTO) program
• Healthy mobile phone and home internet allowance
• Eligibility for retirement plan after 2 months at open enrollment
• Pet Benefit Option

Before you apply

• Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S.
• Unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa

About the company

GuidePoint Security provides trusted cybersecurity expertise, solutions and services. It is a rapidly growing, profitable, privately-held value added reseller with over 1,300 employees.