What are the responsibilities and job description for the Cyber Security Specialist (Data Services) position at TEKsystems c/o Allegis Group?
Job Description
We are seeking a Cyber Specialist to enable and support internal product teams. This is an internal customer-facing Sr role that blends cybersecurity expertise, data-platform enablement, and hands-on onboarding execution.
In this role, you will act as a trusted advisor to internal product, information technology, engineering, and security stakeholders, helping them successfully onboard, access, and operationalize cyber data for security analytics, detection, compliance, operational monitoring, and product security use cases. You will work across enterprise, cloud, IoT, and regulated environments, ensuring cyber data is usable, governed, and aligned to business and security objectives.
This role focuses on cyber data readiness, adoption, and use, and partners closely with detection engineering, event detection, and incident response teams by enabling high-quality, accessible, and well-governed data. Operational detection and response activities remain owned by their respective teams.
Key Responsibilities:
Cyber Data Lake Onboarding & Enablement:
Internal Customer Support & Data Consumption:
Support for Detection Engineering & Incident Response Teams:
Product Security, Compliance & Assurance:
Governance, Standards & Continuous Improvement:
Required Qualifications:
Additional Skills & Qualifications
This is a Contract position based out of Saint Paul, MN.
Pay and Benefits
The pay range for this position is $45.00 - $50.00/hr.
Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following:
Medical, dental & vision
Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital
401(k) Retirement Plan - Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)
Short and long-term disability
Health Spending Account (HSA)
Transportation benefits
Employee Assistance Program
Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)
Workplace Type
This is a fully onsite position in Saint Paul,MN.
Application Deadline
This position is anticipated to close on Jul 3, 2026.
About TEKsystems
We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.
The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.
About TEKsystems and TEKsystems Global Services
We're a leading provider of business and technology services. We accelerate business transformation for our customers. Our expertise in strategy, design, execution and operations unlocks business value through a range of solutions. We're a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 customers, including 80% of the Fortune 500 across North America, Europe and Asia, who partner with us for our scale, full-stack capabilities and speed. We're strategic thinkers, hands-on collaborators, helping customers capitalize on change and master the momentum of technology. We're building tomorrow by delivering business outcomes and making positive impacts in our global communities. TEKsystems and TEKsystems Global Services are Allegis Group companies. Learn more at TEKsystems.com.
The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.
San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, for all positions located in the city and county of San Francisco, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Massachusetts Lie Detector: It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.
Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI): We may use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to support parts of our hiring process, including sourcing, screening, and evaluating candidates. AI helps assess applications and qualifications, but final decisions are made by our hiring team. By applying, you acknowledge and agree that your application may be reviewed using AI tools.
We are seeking a Cyber Specialist to enable and support internal product teams. This is an internal customer-facing Sr role that blends cybersecurity expertise, data-platform enablement, and hands-on onboarding execution.
In this role, you will act as a trusted advisor to internal product, information technology, engineering, and security stakeholders, helping them successfully onboard, access, and operationalize cyber data for security analytics, detection, compliance, operational monitoring, and product security use cases. You will work across enterprise, cloud, IoT, and regulated environments, ensuring cyber data is usable, governed, and aligned to business and security objectives.
This role focuses on cyber data readiness, adoption, and use, and partners closely with detection engineering, event detection, and incident response teams by enabling high-quality, accessible, and well-governed data. Operational detection and response activities remain owned by their respective teams.
Key Responsibilities:
Cyber Data Lake Onboarding & Enablement:
- Serve as the primary point of contact for internal customers onboarding cyber data into the Cyber Data Lake
- Guide teams on platform capabilities, supported use cases, locales, data residency requirements, connectors, and onboarding prerequisites
- Maintain an inventory of available and in-use connectors for the Cyber Data Lake
- Support technical implementation for batch and streaming ingestion
- Partner with platform and data engineering teams to validate pipelines, schemas, and data quality
- Ensure structured, reusable, and well-governed cyber data onboarded for analytics, detection, and assurance
Internal Customer Support & Data Consumption:
- Provide ongoing enablement and support to product, engineering, detection engineering, and security teams
- Assist with queries, reports, analytics, and dashboards using cyber data
- Help internal customers interpret cyber events and telemetry for monitoring, detection tuning, and assurance
- Act as a contact point for onboarding, access, or data-usage issues
- Help teams mature from raw log ingestion to repeatable, value-driven analytics
Support for Detection Engineering & Incident Response Teams:
- Enable detection engineering teams with high-quality, consistently structured data suitable for detection development and tuning
- Provide guidance on logging coverage, schemas, and data availability
- Ensure required telemetry is accessible and retained to support investigation and analysis needs
- Serve as a liaison between platform, detection, and response teams to address data gaps
- Partner with incident response teams without performing IR operational activities
Product Security, Compliance & Assurance:
- Ensure cyber telemetry supports monitoring, assurance, audit readiness, and compliance reporting
- Advise on cybersecurity data requirements for regulated environments, including applications and platforms supporting medical devices
- Support product security and IoT / connected product telemetry
- Maintain and support RBAC and least-privilege access in the cyber data lake
- Partner with legal, privacy, and compliance teams on regulatory alignment
Governance, Standards & Continuous Improvement:
- Develop and maintain onboarding and reporting standards, best practices, and documentation
- Apply project or program coordination practices across onboarding efforts
- Identify and address onboarding anti-patterns such as low-value ingestion or schema drift
- Continuously monitor cyber data feeds for ingestion health, latency, and data quality issues
- Proactively flag intake anomalies that may impact analytics, detection, or compliance use cases
- Contribute to onboarding metrics, usage insights, and improvement initiatives
- Represent cyber data platform perspectives in architecture and governance forums
Required Qualifications:
- 4 years of experience in security analytics or security data platforms
- Experience in a technical, internal customer-facing role
- Strong understanding of cybersecurity logging, events, and telemetry
- Familiarity with Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) and data pipeline technologies and processes
- Hands-on experience with security data lakes, SIEMs, or large-scale telemetry platforms
- Experience with analytics, reporting, or dashboarding on security data
- Understanding of RBAC in shared data environments
- Experience working within global, regulated environments and supporting compliance requirements
- Knowledge of product security including IoT or connected products
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience
Additional Skills & Qualifications
- Experience with modern data-lake or lakehouse platforms (e.g., Databricks, Snowflake, BigQuery)
- Experience onboarding cyber or security data at scale
- Experience supporting reporting and dashboarding from data-lake platforms
- Program or project management experience
- Experience working in global or multi-regional environments
- Experience with the cyber regulatory landscape for medical devices
- Relevant certifications such as CISSP, CCSP, cloud security certifications (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform), or equivalent security and data platform credentials
This is a Contract position based out of Saint Paul, MN.
Pay and Benefits
The pay range for this position is $45.00 - $50.00/hr.
Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following:
Medical, dental & vision
Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital
401(k) Retirement Plan - Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)
Short and long-term disability
Health Spending Account (HSA)
Transportation benefits
Employee Assistance Program
Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)
Workplace Type
This is a fully onsite position in Saint Paul,MN.
Application Deadline
This position is anticipated to close on Jul 3, 2026.
About TEKsystems
We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.
The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.
About TEKsystems and TEKsystems Global Services
We're a leading provider of business and technology services. We accelerate business transformation for our customers. Our expertise in strategy, design, execution and operations unlocks business value through a range of solutions. We're a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 customers, including 80% of the Fortune 500 across North America, Europe and Asia, who partner with us for our scale, full-stack capabilities and speed. We're strategic thinkers, hands-on collaborators, helping customers capitalize on change and master the momentum of technology. We're building tomorrow by delivering business outcomes and making positive impacts in our global communities. TEKsystems and TEKsystems Global Services are Allegis Group companies. Learn more at TEKsystems.com.
The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.
San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, for all positions located in the city and county of San Francisco, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Massachusetts Lie Detector: It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.
Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI): We may use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to support parts of our hiring process, including sourcing, screening, and evaluating candidates. AI helps assess applications and qualifications, but final decisions are made by our hiring team. By applying, you acknowledge and agree that your application may be reviewed using AI tools.
Salary : $45 - $50