Cyber Security Engineer (DataDog)

Beacon Hill Staffing Group, LLC
Baton Rouge, United States of America
18 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Internship / Graduate position
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Senior
Compensation
$ 177K

Job location

Remote
Baton Rouge, United States of America

Tech stack

Microsoft Windows
API
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Computer Security
Data Masking
Linux
Intrusion Detection and Prevention
Key Management
Citrix Systems
Parsing
Role-Based Access Control
Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)
Security Information and Event Management
Subsystems
Systems Integration
Datadog
Data Logging
Data Processing
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Kubernetes
Virtual Agents
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Data Pipelines
Service Stack
Citrix Netscaler

Job description

  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

Requirements

  • 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.

About the company

Beacon Hill was founded to set a new standard in search, career placement and flexible staffing., Beacon Hill Technologies, a premier National Information Technology Staffing Group, provides world class technology talent across all industries utilizing a complete suite of staffing services. Beacon Hill Technologies' dedicated team of recruiting and staffing experts consistently delivers quality IT professionals to solve our customers' technical and business needs. Beacon Hill Technologies covers a broad spectrum of IT positions, including Project Management and Business Analysis, Programming/Development, Database, Infrastructure, Quality Assurance, Production/Support and ERP roles.

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