Cyber & IT Operations Analytics Engineer

Job overview

The Cyber & IT Operations Analytics Engineer role is onsite in Herndon, VA; compensation is not specified. The engineer supports a sponsor’s IT systems data modernization ecosystem, enabling cyber threat analysis and IT operational health monitoring.

What you'll do

• Establish data quality baselines, schema standards, and normalization pipelines
• configure and administer distributed Splunk infrastructure
• develop optimized SPL queries, data models, correlations, and alerts
• design telemetry routing and transformation pipelines
• build dashboards and reports
• and collaborate with platform and cloud engineers on downstream analytics integration.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

cyber & it operations analytics engineer

herndon va

kda consulting

splunk

cyber analytics

it operations

data normalization

telemetry pipelines

spl

dashboards

python

ts/sci with polygraph

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Why this role

Requires hands-on distributed Splunk expertise, telemetry and ingestion pipeline experience, scripting ability, Linux and secure-cloud knowledge, and an active TS/SCI with Polygraph clearance.

About the employer

KDA Consulting Inc is hiring for this role. Industry: Computer Systems Design Services. Sector: 54.