Cyber security engineer – data engineer

Genesis10 is currently seeking a Cyber Security Engineer – Data Engineer - Remote position with a Global Financial Institution located in Charlotte, NC. This is a 6 month contract opportunity. This role will help strengthen the client's monitoring, detection, and response capabilities by building, onboarding, and maintaining high-quality security data pipelines across cloud and on-premises environments.

The successful candidate will partner with application, infrastructure, security, and governance teams to ensure critical telemetry is collected, normalized, validated, and made available for threat detection and incident response. This is a hands-on engineering role for a candidate who is comfortable working with large volumes of security telemetry and solving complex data quality issues in a highly regulated financial services environment.

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

Requirements:

• 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

Desired skills:

• 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

Pay range up to: $65.76 per hour

Only candidates available and ready to work directly as Genesis10 employees will be considered for this position. If you have the described qualifications and are interested in this exciting opportunity, please apply!

Ranked a Top Staffing Firm in the U.S. by Staffing Industry Analysts for six consecutive years, Genesis10 puts thousands of consultants and employees to work across the United States every year in contract, contract-for-hire, and permanent placement roles. With more than 300 active clients, Genesis10 provides access to many of the Fortune 100 firms and a variety of mid-market organizations across the full spectrum of industry verticals.

For contract roles, Genesis10 offers the benefits listed below. If this is a perm-placement opportunity, our recruiter can talk you through the unique benefits offered for that particular client.

Benefits of Working with Genesis10:

• Access to hundreds of clients, most who have been working with Genesis10 for 5-20 years.
• The opportunity to have a career-home in Genesis10; many of our consultants have been working exclusively with Genesis10 for years.
• Access to an experienced, caring recruiting team (more than 7 years of experience, on average.)
• Behavioral Health Platform
• Medical, Dental, Vision
• Health Savings Account
• Voluntary Hospital Indemnity (Critical Illness & Accident)
• Voluntary Term Life Insurance
• 401K
• Sick Pay (for applicable states/municipalities)
• Commuter Benefits (Dallas, NYC, SF, and Illinois)

For multiple years running, Genesis10 has been recognized as a Top Staffing Firm in the U.S., as a Best Company for Work-Life Balance, as a Best Company for Career Growth, for Diversity, and for Leadership, amongst others. To learn more and to view all our available career opportunities, please visit us at our website. Genesis10 is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Candidates will receive consideration without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.