What are the responsibilities and job description for the HUD - SIEM / Data Engineer position at cFocus Software Incorporated?
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:
- Bachelor’s 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.