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DataOps Engineer - Security Monitoring & Analytics - VodafoneThree
Data Engineer
Design, build, and operate secure data pipelines and monitoring platforms using Python, Splunk, Elastic Stack and cloud services to enable real‑time security analytics and incident response.
About the role
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain automated data ingestion pipelines for security logs and telemetry using Python, Kafka and cloud native services.
- Design, configure, and optimize Splunk and Elastic Stack solutions for real‑time threat detection, correlation, and visualisation.
- Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform to provision and manage AWS resources supporting security monitoring workloads.
- Collaborate with security analysts and engineering teams to define data models, enrich data streams, and create actionable dashboards.
- Ensure data quality, compliance, and performance through continuous testing, monitoring, and incident triage.
Requirements
- Strong experience with Python scripting for data processing and automation.
- Hands‑on expertise in Splunk, Elastic Stack (ELK) and log aggregation pipelines.
- Proficiency in cloud platforms, preferably AWS, and IaC tools such as Terraform.
- Knowledge of streaming technologies like Kafka and security concepts (SIEM, threat hunting, incident response).
- Solid understanding of CI/CD practices and containerised environments (Docker/Kubernetes) is a plus.
Skills
pythonsplunkkafkaawsterraform