Security Data Engineer

Location: Atlanta, GA | Type: Full-time

About the role

The Splunk Engineer role at Boston Consulting Group focuses on building and evolving the telemetry foundation for the Continuous Monitoring & Detection capability. This position is part of the Security Operations team and emphasizes the importance of data quality and security telemetry. The engineer will collaborate with various teams to ensure reliable and scalable security data collection and normalization. This role requires a blend of technical leadership and hands-on engineering to enhance the security monitoring platform.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and optimize security telemetry pipelines that deliver high-quality data into Splunk Enterprise Security.
• Partner with Detection Engineering to translate detection use case requirements into telemetry onboarding and data quality improvements.
• Lead the onboarding, normalization, and validation of new log sources.
• Develop and maintain performant data ingestion architectures using Splunk forwarders and related technologies.
• Monitor and improve data quality, ingestion health, and pipeline performance.
• Lead technical workstreams that enhance data onboarding and security telemetry governance.
• Optimize ingestion strategies and data lifecycle management to balance detection coverage and operational cost.
• Evaluate and integrate modern telemetry and data pipeline technologies to strengthen security monitoring capabilities.

Requirements

• Experience designing, implementing, and optimizing enterprise security telemetry pipelines using SIEM and related security platforms.
• Deep knowledge of Splunk Enterprise Security, including data onboarding and Common Information Model normalization.
• Strong understanding of data ingestion architectures and telemetry quality management.
• Experience leading technical workstreams and establishing engineering standards.
• Familiarity with modern observability and telemetry pipeline technologies such as Observo and Datadog.
• Deep expertise in Python in the context of Data Engineering.

Pay

$121,000 - $141,000 per year

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with no monthly premiums and $10 copays.
• Mental-health resources (EAP, telehealth, meditation app) and medical second opinions.
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs) and annual fitness reimbursement.
• Life and disability insurance.
• Competitive pay with annual bonuses.
• Generous retirement contributions with a 401(k).
• Robust time off, including vacation, holidays, sick leave, bereavement, and enhanced parental leave (up to 22 weeks for birth parents and 14 weeks of bonding for all new parents).
• Adoption and fertility assistance.
• Transportation benefits and backup child and elder care.
• Flexible hybrid or remote work options.