Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Lorien is offering an exciting opportunity for a Security Data Engineer to join their Defense Technology customer. In this role, you will help build and evolve the data infrastructure that powers the security function, enabling access across teams to protect mission-critical systems.
Responsibilities
- Partner with internal security teams to define data usage standards and improve search and discovery across security datasets
- Build out data pipelines that support every internal security function
- Build and maintain a centralized security data lake to support unified, company-wide security data management
- Own the design and buildout of scalable log aggregation pipelines across enterprise infrastructure and applications
- Design and implement ETL workflows to ingest, transform, and store security data at scale
Skills
- 5+ years' overall relevant data engineering experience, ideally with experience executing on security related initiatives
- Experience supporting the rollout of enterprise AI platforms (e.g., Claude, Copilot, ChatGPT Enterprise, or similar), including identity, access, and governance considerations
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, engineering, or related technical field
- Experience building high-volume log ingestion and storage pipelines
- Familiarity with data lake architectures and security data management best practices
- Hands-on experience with ETL tooling in large-scale data environments such as Spark, DuckDB, or similar
- Strong programming ability in one or more general-purpose languages (Go, Rust, Java/Scala, etc.)
- Working knowledge of infrastructure-as-code tooling like Terraform, AWS CDK, or Pulumi
- Experience deploying and maintaining systems in cloud environments, including CI/CD-based delivery
- High degree of autonomy, with a track record of owning complex, ambiguous projects end-to-end
- Familiarity with AWS, Azure, or GCP-native security tooling and ecosystems
- Experience supporting varied access patterns across differently formatted data stores (beyond Splunk)
- Exposure to open table formats such as Iceberg or Delta Lake
- Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. Top Secret security clearance
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