SecOps Data & Analytics Engineer - North Central region (Remote in the U.S.)

General Description

We are looking for a skilled Security Data and Analytics Engineer to support the implementation, optimization, and operational support of data pipelines and analytics platforms. This role will engage in the development of data-source integrations, transformation workflows, and data-quality controls while providing “Wow Them” service to clients, internal customers, and co-workers.

The Security Data and Analytics Engineer must demonstrate strong data engineering, technical troubleshooting, and client communication skills. The engineer must lead through influence and apply sound business and financial awareness when making decisions involving data volume, processing cost, platform capacity, project scope, and client value.

About the North Central region SecOps Practice

The Security Operations Practice is responsible for helping clients make security, operational, and observability data reliable, usable, and available to downstream platforms and teams. We design and implement data pipelines that collect, route, transform, enrich, govern, and deliver data across complex client environments.

Our team of data engineers, SecOps engineers, consultants, architects, and platform specialists focuses on data integration, normalization, quality, routing, retention, and platform optimization. We partner with clients, account executives, project managers, source-system owners, security teams, and technology providers to create supportable data services.

Key areas of focus include:

• Establishing reliable and reusable data pipelines.
• Improving data quality, accessibility, and processing efficiency.
• Supporting security, observability, analytics, and operational use cases.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Configure and support data ingestion from applications, infrastructure, cloud services, security tools, and business systems using agents, APIs, webhooks, syslog, object storage, message queues, and native integrations.
• Develop and maintain pipelines that collect, route, filter, enrich, transform, mask, aggregate, and deliver data to supported destinations.
• Implement parsing, field extraction, schema mapping, timestamp handling, data-type conversion, and normalization for structured and unstructured data.
• Validate data completeness, consistency, accuracy, timeliness, and destination delivery while troubleshooting malformed, duplicated, delayed, or missing data.
• Contribute to reusable pipeline patterns, parsers, transformation logic, validation routines, data dictionaries, and implementation standards.
• Participate in data architecture assessments and document source inventories, data flows, dependencies, ownership, quality issues, and recommendations.
• Maintain awareness of data pipeline, analytics, log-management, observability, cloud, and emerging AI-enabled data technologies.
• Execute technical work across multiple client environments while managing delivery priorities, dependencies, and source-system coordination.
• Communicate data-quality issues, technical risks, progress, and scope considerations to technical leads, project managers, and client stakeholders.
• Support regional delivery priorities and collaborate with SecOps engineers when data pipelines support SIEM, detection, investigation, or automation requirements.

Required Experience and Education:

• Two to five years of experience in data engineering, log management, observability, analytics engineering, platform engineering, or a related field.
• Hands-on experience with at least one data pipeline, analytics, log-management, or observability platform.
• Experience onboarding data sources and troubleshooting ingestion, transformation, processing, or destination-delivery issues.
• Experience working with structured and unstructured data formats such as JSON, XML, CSV, key-value data, syslog, or CEF.
• Understanding of APIs, authentication, certificates, service accounts, network connectivity, and integration concepts.
• Basic scripting experience with Python, PowerShell, JavaScript, or a similar language.
• Familiarity with SQL, platform-specific query languages, or data transformation languages.
• Bachelor’s degree in data engineering, information technology, computer science, cybersecurity, or a related field, or equivalent professional and military experience.
• Embraces emerging technologies, including AI tools, to work smarter, solve problems, and drive better business outcomes.

Preferred Experience and Education

• Data pipeline or routing certification from Cribl, Onum, Databahn, or comparable provider.
• Observability certification from Datadog, Dynatrace, Splunk, Elastic, or comparable provider.
• Cloud certification from AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Experience with data masking, retention, tiering, aggregation, sampling, or data-reduction strategies.
• Familiarity with cloud storage, streaming, and logging services.
• Client-facing consulting or professional service experience.
• Experience producing source inventories, data mappings, validation reports, pipeline diagrams, or technical documentation.

Travel Requirements:

• Up to 10% travel

Physical Requirements:

• Sedentary work
• Substantial movement of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers for a minimum of 8 hours a day
• Required to have close visual acuity to view computer terminal and/or extensive reading for a minimum of 8 hours a day

Note: Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this role.

Why GuidePoint?

• Remote workforce primarily (U.S. based only, some travel may be required for certain positions, working on-site may be required for Federal positions)
• Group Medical Insurance options: Zero Deductible PPO Plan (GuidePoint pays 90% of the premium for employees and 70% for family plans (spouse/children/family) or High Deductible Health Plan with HSA (GuidePoint pays 100% of the employees premiums and 75% for family plans (spouse/children/family). If you choose the High Deductible / HSA plan, GPS will contribute in 4 equal quarterly installments: ($850 per EE annually / $1750 per family annually (includes spouse/children/family options)
• Group Dental Insurance: GuidePoint pays 100% of the premium for employees and 75% of family plans
• 12 corporate holidays and a 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