SEIM / Telemetry / Security Analytics Engineer

Who We Are:

Since our inception back in 2006, Navitas has grown to be an industry leader in the digital transformation space, and we’ve served as trusted advisors supporting our client base within the commercial, federal, and state and local markets.

What We Do:

At our very core, we’re a group of problem solvers providing our award-winning technology solutions to drive digital acceleration for our customers! With proven solutions, award-winning technologies, and a team of expert problem solvers, Navitas has consistently empowered customers to use technology as a competitive advantage and deliver cutting-edge transformative solutions.

What you will do:

Security information and event management (SIEM) / Telemetry / Security Analytics Engineer supports enterprise‑wide visibility, logging, and analytics across Zero Trust pillars. This role integrates telemetry from identity, endpoint, network, application, and cloud environments to support monitoring, threat detection, and situational awareness. The engineer enables correlation, reporting, and analysis that inform USCIS Zero Trust decision‑making, maturity measurement, and operational response, while supporting integration with existing security operations tooling.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain enterprise logging, telemetry ingestion, and analytics capabilities that support Zero Trust visibility and decision‑making.
• Integrate telemetry from identity systems, endpoints, networks, applications, and cloud environments into centralized analytics platforms.
• Build and tune detection logic, correlation rules, dashboards, and reports to support threat detection, situational awareness, and operational response.
• Support maturity measurement and continuous monitoring by ensuring telemetry supports both security operations and Zero Trust reporting requirements.
• Collaborate with SOC analysts, Zero Trust architects, and pillar leads to ensure analytics align with mission risks and enforcement needs.
• Troubleshoot data quality, latency, and coverage issues across telemetry pipelines and sources.
• Support integration with existing security operations tooling and workflows.

Required Qualifications

• 3+ years of hands‑on experience engineering and operating SIEM and security analytics platforms in large enterprise environments, preferably in a US Federal Government agency such as DHS.
• Demonstrated proficiency ingesting and normalizing telemetry from diverse sources, including identity, endpoint detection and response, network security tools, and cloud platforms.
• Ability to design detection logic and analytics that go beyond basic alerts to support behavioral analysis and risk‑based decisions.
• Strong understanding of how telemetry and analytics support Zero Trust controls, access decisions, and maturity measurement.
• Experience working directly with security operations teams and analysts.
• U.S. Citizenship required.
• Active DHS USCIS Public Trust clearance or Secret (or above) for reciprocity.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with Splunk or comparable enterprise SIEM platforms.
• Familiarity with UEBA, behavioral analytics, or advanced correlation techniques.
• Experience supporting federal SOCs, continuous monitoring programs, or Zero Trust initiatives.
• Exposure to automation or orchestration capabilities within security operations environments.