Data Engineer

<p><strong>Data Engineer </strong></p><p><strong>Remote - UK with some travel to office</strong></p><p><strong>Contract runs initially to March 25 with scope for extension</strong></p><p><strong>Inside IR35 (Umbrella) </strong></p><p><em><em><em><strong>Who are we?</strong></em></em></em><br></p><p>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.</p><p>We help businesses deliver technical projects better than ever before through our platform and on-demand Elastic Teams™. </p><blockquote>What's in it for you? <em><strong>Our mission is to create freelance jobs with more benefits than permanent.</strong></em><br></blockquote><p><em><em><em>Want to know more? read: <a href="https://distributed.co/about">https://distributed.co/about</a></em></em></em></p><p><strong><em>About this role </em></strong></p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p><strong>Your Responsibilities</strong></p><ul><li>Work in a high performing team of engineers delivering state of the art security tools</li></ul><ul><li>Be an active member of the SIEM log onboarding team, delivering SIEM functionality in line with the requirements</li></ul><ul><li>Lead on log source onboarding for Network SIEM</li></ul><ul><li>Technical leadership/liaison with log source platform owners/ASGs</li><li>Building custom elastic ingest pipelines in order to parse log data</li><li>Close collaboration with wider SIEM team</li><li>Contribute to SIEM design activities such as design aspects that aid log source ingestion activities</li><li>Ensuring work is completed on time and within budget</li><li>Updating documentation where appropriate</li><li>Proactively drive forward continuous improvement within the team</li><li>Provide effective technology coaching and mentoring both inside and outside the team</li><li>Where required to provide 2^ndand 3^rd line support to maintain service availability during cyber attack</li><li>Interface with program and project managers to ensure appropriate log onboarding engagement as necessary</li><li>Keeping informed of new and updated log integration technologies</li></ul><p></p><ul></ul><p><strong>About You</strong></p><p>We’re looking for passionate technologists who enjoy working in collaborative agile teams. You’ll need to be a clear, concise &amp; engaging communicator with people on your team. We enjoy the big picture and the detail; we want people who excel at both</p><ul><li>Experienced in log source data onboarding</li><li>ETL skills</li><li>Experience of log augmentation</li><li>Strong team work (working with stakeholders and other team members)</li><li>Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats/Elastic Agent, data collection and filtering using Logstash</li><li>Kafka concepts</li><li>Knowledge of regular expressions</li></ul><p><strong>Preferred skills and experiences </strong></p><ul><li>SIEM or similar cyber security tool development</li><li>Agile delivery</li><li>Elastic Fleet</li><li>Elastic Common Schema (ECS)</li><li>Knowledge of Telecoms Security Act (TSA).</li></ul><ul></ul><p><strong><em>About us</em></strong></p><p><em>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.</em></p><p><em>By submitting your application you give us permission to store and use the information from your CV and your answers to application questions.</em></p> •

Last updated on Oct 2, 2024