Cybersecurity Specialist - Cyber Data Services
EPITEC · Little Canada, MN · 6 days ago
Information Technology$50–$55/hrContract
Cybersecurity Specialist
Summary
We are seeking a Cyber Specialist to enable and support internal product teams. This is an internal customer-facing senior role that blends cybersecurity expertise, data-platform enablement, and hands-on onboarding execution.
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
- Aid 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
- Advises 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
- 4+ years of experience in security analytics or security data platforms
- 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
- 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 GCP), or equivalent security and data platform credentials
Required Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications