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Flexible for occasional telework; candidate must be local to the work location.\nThis position will support the Cyber Event Data Node (CEDN), a centralized cloud-based data platform that collects, processes, enriches, normalizes, stores, and distributes cybersecurity data for operational and analytical use.\nPeraton’s DSCM program provides technical, engineering, data analytics, cybersecurity, management, operational, logistical, and administrative support to protect the Department’s global infrastructure, systems, information, and mobile devices from cyber risks and threats.\nIn this role, you will:\nSupport onboarding new cybersecurity systems and data sources into the CEDN environment. \nWork with system owners, cybersecurity analysts, architects, and engineers to identify source data, collection requirements, formats, schemas, volumes, retention needs, and downstream use cases. \nConfigure and maintain Cribl pipelines for data collection, routing, parsing, transformation, enrichment, compression, filtering, and replay. \nAssist with developing and maintaining Databricks data pipelines supporting raw, enriched, and normalized data layers within Delta Lake. \nDevelop and maintain Python, SQL, and scripting solutions used to automate data ingestion, transformation, validation, and reporting. \nMap structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data into standardized schemas and security data models. \nConduct data-quality checks to confirm completeness, accuracy, timeliness, proper formatting, and successful delivery to downstream systems. \nTroubleshoot ingestion failures, malformed events, schema changes, pipeline errors, latency, and other data-flow issues. \nSupport integrations with cybersecurity and analytics platforms such as Splunk Cloud, ServiceNow, Power BI, Tableau, and other authorized consumers. \nApply appropriate metadata, tagging, access controls, and data-handling requirements to support both classified and unclassified environments. \nMonitor pipeline health, throughput, storage consumption, and processing performance and help identify opportunities for optimization. \nDevelop and maintain source-onboarding checklists, data-flow diagrams, interface documentation, configuration records, test plans, standard operating procedures, and troubleshooting guides. \nParticipate in testing and validation activities before new data sources are released into production. \nWork within established change-management, configuration-management, security authorization, and system development lifecycle processes. \nCollaborate with senior data engineers, security engineers, data scientists, threat analysts, and mission stakeholders to translate operational needs into reliable data products. \nSupport knowledge transfer and provide basic technical guidance to data owners and platform users. \nQualifications\nMinimum Requirements:\nBachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, data science, cybersecurity, engineering, or a related technical field and 1-2 years of experience. 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