Elastic Data Engineer at JCS Solutions LLC
Adelphi, MD
$148,000–$162,000
Jul 28, 2026
Adelphi, MD
Jul 29, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
This role sits on a DoD cybersecurity (CSSP) cloud operations team and is responsible for designing, building, and maintaining enterprise data-ingestion pipelines and analytics capabilities using the Elastic Stack. Day-to-day work centers on collecting, parsing, normalizing, and enriching high-volume security and operational telemetry from diverse sources, then supporting dashboards, alerting, threat detection, and compliance reporting for cybersecurity analysts.
Mid level · 4+ years · Bachelor's required · TS/SCI clearance · Full-time
Pay in the description: $135,000–$162,000
Quick apply — this platform usually takes a CV and a few fields.
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
We read this from the posting text with AI. Skim the description below before ruling yourself out.
How this req sits in the market our data
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $142,568 (middle half $111,775–$173,013). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 29, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
No specific work location or metro area is stated in the posting; the CBSA is left blank. Given the DoD/CSSP context, the role is likely on-site at a government facility, but this is not confirmed.
The SOC classification is a genuine judgment call. The primary day-to-day work is building and maintaining data pipelines and schemas (pointing to 15-1243 Database Architects / Data Engineers), but the environment is a DoD cybersecurity platform (CSSP/SIEM) with significant security-analysis support, making 15-1212 Information Security Analysts a plausible runner-up.
Experience range spans 4–8 years (BS) or 2–6 years (Master's); the overall years minimum is set to 4, the lowest stated threshold.
The TS/SCI clearance is listed as 'active or obtainable,' meaning candidates who can obtain the clearance are eligible — not just those who currently hold it.
Elastic Fleet is mentioned in the 'What you will bring' section alongside Elastic Agent and Beats; it is folded under the Elastic Agent/Fleet ecosystem rather than emitted as a separate skill, as Fleet is the management layer for Elastic Agent.
RMF and CISSP/GIAC/Security+ certifications appear only under the 'How will you wow us' (preferred) section.
Requires a TS/SCI clearance — the cleared population is a small fraction of this occupation, so the real candidate pool is materially smaller than the estimate below, which does not model clearance.
Read the full posting
The employer publishes the full description on their own site — read it there ↗. Or sign in to read it here — it's free, and it also lets you track this application.