HUD SIEM Data Engineer
Washington, AR - USA
Job Summary
cFocus Software seeks a SIEM / Data Engineer to join our program supporting Housing and Urban Development (HUD). This position is remote. This position requires a Public Trust clearance.
Qualifications:
Qualifications:
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Data Engineering Cybersecurity or related field.
- 5 years of experience in SIEM engineering data engineering or security analytics.
- Hands-on experience with SIEM platforms (e.g. Splunk Elastic QRadar).
- Strong experience building data pipelines using tools such as Python SQL or ETL frameworks.
- Design develop and maintain SIEM data pipelines for ingestion parsing normalization and enrichment of security logs.
- Implement and optimize log aggregation and data collection from on-premise cloud (AWS GovCloud) and SaaS environments.
- Configure and maintain SIEM platforms (e.g. Splunk) including data onboarding indexing strategies and performance tuning.
- Develop and maintain correlation rules dashboards alerts and detection use cases to support SOC operations.
- Ensure data quality integrity and availability across security telemetry sources.
- Integrate multiple data sources including network logs endpoint data cloud logs application logs and threat intelligence feeds.
- Support real-time and batch data processing to enable threat detection incident response and analytics.
- Collaborate with SOC analysts threat intelligence and incident response teams to improve detection capabilities.
- Automate data ingestion transformation and enrichment processes using scripting and data engineering tools.
- Perform data mapping and normalization aligned with common schemas (e.g. CIM ECS).
- Optimize SIEM storage retention and query performance for large-scale data environments.
- Support integration with SOAR platforms for automated response and orchestration.
- Conduct troubleshooting and root cause analysis of data pipeline issues and ingestion failures.
- Maintain documentation for data architecture pipelines and configurations.
- Support compliance reporting audit requirements and data governance aligned with federal standards.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Key Skills
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