Cyber Security Engineer (DataDog)

Washington, District of Columbia, USA Temporary/Contract
$ 75.00 - $ 85.00 per hour 06-11-2026 13:36:05 Job ID: 1459845_1781184965

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We are seeking a Cyber Security engineer to join our team in supporting our customers security environment. This role will require someone to obtain or have a Public Trust clearance. This opportunity is fully remote for the duration of the contract!

Responsibilities

  1. Datadog Platform Administration. As full Platform Administrator within the shared multi-tenant SOC organization
  2. Enterprise Log Collection Pipeline Architecture & Operations. Design, implement, and maintain log collection pipelines for multiple networks with distinct architectural constraints
  3. Detection Engineering.
  4. Incident Management & SLA Instrumentation
  5. SecOps Technology Stack Contribution

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of hands-on cybersecurity engineering experience, with at least 5 years in SIEM platform engineering, administration, or log management.
  • Demonstrable, hands-on Datadog experience-including platform administration, DataPrime query language, alert development (threshold, anomaly, flow, ratio), Parsing Rules engineering, TCO Optimizer configuration, and log pipeline design.
  • Proven experience architecting and managing enterprise-scale logging pipelines, including OpenTelemetry Collector (OTEL) deployment in agent/gateway models.
  • Experience onboarding and integrating diverse log sources: cloud APIs (AWS CloudTrail, VPC Flow Logs, S3/SNS/SQS), Kubernetes/EKS workloads, Windows/Linux endpoints, and network/security appliances (Palo Alto, Check Point, NetScaler, Citrix).
  • Experience designing log pipelines with data masking, field redaction, or sensitive data handling requirements.
  • Datadog: DataPrime, GROK/regex Parsing Rules, alert types (threshold/anomaly/flow/ratio/metric), TCO Optimizer, Subsystem/Scope/RBAC administration, SSO/SAML configuration, API key management, Cases, SLO configuration, Olly AI agent, Streama ML.

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