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Data Engineering​

August Schell’s expertise in data engineering originated in Security Operations Centers (SOCs) across the government and has since expanded to other areas. Our data engineering approach involves collaborating with customers to identify key technology targets and implement solutions that provide flexibility and scalability, allowing for effective incident triage and decision-making. A fully mature data engineering and operations pipeline, as implemented by August Schell, enables data to scale, self-organize, and provide insights, ultimately supporting a range of business objectives through a combination of tools and technologies.
August Schell’s cleared and certified engineers deliver custom IT solutions that align with organizational goals while prioritizing security, compliance, and operational efficiency. By leveraging advanced technologies and optimizing existing resources, they avoid costly “rip-and-replace” approaches and focus on maximizing the value of current systems. Our professional services cover everything from assessment and installation to configuration and ongoing management, helping organizations improve uptime, collaboration, and cost-effectiveness. With a commitment to innovation and client satisfaction, their engineering team supports both short- and long-term engagements to ensure mission success.​
DATA INGESTION: August Schell designs and implements scalable pipelines to ingest structured and unstructured data from diverse sources, including logs, APIs, IoT sensors, and legacy systems.
STREAMING AND DATA PROCESSING: Our team enables real-time data ingestion and processing to support high-velocity use cases by leveraging advanced streaming and event-driven technologies.
ETL/ELT DEVELOPMENT: Our team builds optimized extract, transform, and load (ETL) and extract, load, transform (ELT) processes to prepare data for analytics and reporting.
DATA LAKE ARCHITECTURE: We support hybrid and cloud-native data lakes using technologies to store both raw and refined data assets.
SECURITY AND COMPLIANCE: We integrate security best practices into every data engineering engagement to ensure data is protected through encryption, access controls, and audit trails in alignment with federal compliance standards.
WORKFLOW ORCHESTRATION: We automate and orchestrate complex data workflows using advanced scheduling and pipeline management technologies to ensure reliability and efficiency.
DATA QUALITY AND GOVERNANCE: August Schell implements robust data validation, lineage tracking, and governance frameworks to ensure accuracy, consistency, and compliance.
DATA WAREHOUSING: August Schell deploys and manages cloud and on-premise data warehouses to centralize data access.
Secure AI
With the explosion of AI-powered capabilities, August Schell’s SOC analysts stand poised to meet the challenge of tackle the increasing volume and speed of scans across endpoints, network traffic analysis, and supply chains. However, traditional time-consuming analysis and reliance on tribal knowledge or system context poses a challenge to simple Large Language Model (LLM)-based summary tools. August Schell data scientists have created a system that enables AI models and SOC analysts to work collaboratively by retaining a history of system context and security posture descriptions—allowing not only for summarization, but also for reasoning and remediation recommendations. The system also maintains an audit trail of analyst approvals and rejections for each AI-suggested action, supporting ongoing training and model improvement.

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