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Data Engineer

Remote:

Full Remote

Contract:

Fixed term

Experience:

Mid-level (2-5 years)

Work from:

United Kingdom

Offer summary

Qualifications:

Experience in log source data onboarding, ETL skills, Knowledge of Elasticsearch and Kibana, Experience with Logstash and Kafka concepts, Familiarity with Telecoms Security Act.

Key responsabilities:

Deliver state-of-the-art security tools
Lead log source onboarding for Network SIEM
Build custom elastic ingest pipelines
Contribute to SIEM design activities
Provide technology coaching and support

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51 - 200 Employees

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Job description

Remote - UK with some travel to office

Contract runs initially to March 25 with scope for extension

Inside IR35 (Umbrella)

Who are we?

We're a software development company building the world's Elastic Workforce, reinventing work and challenging the assumption that a local team = the best team.

We help businesses deliver technical projects better than ever before through our platform and on-demand Elastic Teams™.

What's in it for you? Our mission is to create freelance jobs with more benefits than permanent.

Want to know more? read: https://distributed.co/about

About This Role

We're working with a key partner in the telecoms industry to build a cutting-edge SIEM for our network to ensure full compliance with the Telecommunications Security Act and enhance our security maturity – key priorities for our leadership. After a successful “return to green” in May, we identified crucial roles to drive the project forward.

Maintaining our cyber security against external threat actors is a constant challenge. You will work on key cyber capabilities, using state-of-the-art technologies, to provide the threat-hunting teams with the data they need to keep the group, its customers and the UK safe.

Your Responsibilities

Work in a high performing team of engineers delivering state of the art security tools
Be an active member of the SIEM log onboarding team, delivering SIEM functionality in line with the requirements
Lead on log source onboarding for Network SIEM
Technical leadership/liaison with log source platform owners/ASGs
Building custom elastic ingest pipelines in order to parse log data
Close collaboration with wider SIEM team
Contribute to SIEM design activities such as design aspects that aid log source ingestion activities
Ensuring work is completed on time and within budget
Updating documentation where appropriate
Proactively drive forward continuous improvement within the team
Provide effective technology coaching and mentoring both inside and outside the team
Where required to provide 2nd and 3rd line support to maintain service availability during cyber attack
Interface with program and project managers to ensure appropriate log onboarding engagement as necessary
Keeping informed of new and updated log integration technologies

About You

We’re looking for passionate technologists who enjoy working in collaborative agile teams. You’ll need to be a clear, concise & engaging communicator with people on your team. We enjoy the big picture and the detail; we want people who excel at both

Experienced in log source data onboarding
ETL skills
Experience of log augmentation
Strong team work (working with stakeholders and other team members)
Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats/Elastic Agent, data collection and filtering using Logstash
Kafka concepts
Knowledge of regular expressions

Preferred Skills And Experiences

SIEM or similar cyber security tool development
Agile delivery
Elastic Fleet
Elastic Common Schema (ECS)
Knowledge of Telecoms Security Act (TSA).

About Us

Distributed is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. Employees and contractors, as well as prospective employees and contractors, will all be treated equally and fairly. Distributed is committed to ensuring no less favourable treatment is experienced by any current or prospective employee because of any of the protected characteristics under the UK Equality Act 2010 or equivalent local equality legislation.

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