Security Telemetry Engineer

Overview: Tek Ninjas is a global software consulting and digital services company built for speed, scale, and innovation, headquartered in Carrollton, Texas.

Job Title: Security Telemetry Engineer

Location: Irvine, California 92618, San Antonio, Texas 78251

Duration: 5 months

Job Type: Contract

Work Type: Hybrid

Job Description:

THE ROLE:

This position will implement telemetry ingestion, normalization, enrichment, and routing capabilities; integrate AI, cloud, application, and security telemetry with SIEM and analytics ecosystems; and establish governance standards for data quality, coverage, retention, and operational readiness. The engineer will collaborate with security engineering, AI platform, detection engineering, threat analytics, and cyber defense teams while developing dashboards and metrics to monitor telemetry health and ingestion performance.

Key Responsibilities

• Implement and maintain telemetry ingestion, normalization, enrichment, and routing pipelines.
• Integrate AI platform, cloud, application, and security telemetry with monitoring, SIEM, and analytics platforms.
• Establish telemetry governance standards covering data quality, coverage, retention, health monitoring, and operational readiness.
• Support detection engineering, threat analytics, and cyber defense teams with reliable security telemetry.
• Identify and remediate observability, logging, and telemetry gaps that affect threat detection and incident investigations.
• Onboard new telemetry sources in collaboration with AI platform and security engineering teams.
• Develop dashboards, reports, and metrics for telemetry quality, ingestion performance, and monitoring coverage.

Required Skills & Experience

• 8-10 years of relevant engineering or cybersecurity experience
• Telemetry Security
• AI Security
• Cyber Defense
• Security telemetry ingestion and routing
• SIEM and security analytics integration
• Observability and logging

Preferred Skills

• Cloud telemetry
• Telemetry governance
• Security dashboards
• Detection engineering
• Threat analytics

Tek Ninjas Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.

About TekNinjas

TekNinjas is a global IT staffing partner placing skilled professionals with leading enterprises and system integrators across the US, Canada, UK, India, and the EU. We focus on the right fit - not just the fast fill - and stay engaged with our consultants well beyond the start date.

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TekNinjas is an Equal Opportunity Employer.