Elasticsearch Engineer

August Schell

$100K — $130K *
Aerospace & Defense
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 2+ years of experience in a DoD or Federal IT environment
  • Active Top Secret security clearance
  • DoD 8570 IAM/IA Technical (IAT) Level II certification
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills for reporting
  • Bachelor's degree in IT-related field (preferred)

Responsibilities

  • Lead engineering initiatives to design and implement Elastic Stack solutions
  • Install, configure, upgrade, and maintain Elastic Stack components
  • Develop Kibana visualizations, dashboards, and alerting for security monitoring
  • Maintain and troubleshoot Elastic infrastructure, resolving issues proactively
  • Ensure compliance with federal security standards during system management
  • Collaborate with vendors to establish best practices for system architecture
  • Utilize Cribl for onboarding and normalization processes

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model with onsite requirements at Fort Meade
  • Opportunity to work on high-impact projects using cutting-edge technologies
  • Collaborative project team environment with direct client interaction
  • Develop advanced technical skills relevant to federal security compliance
  • Potential for career advancement within a specialized field of IT
Full Job Description
The engineer will be part of a project team responsible for working with clients and peers and building a high performing system using Elastic.

Individuals in this role must be able work hybrid and go on site at Fort Meade as requested.

Responsibilities Include:
  • Demonstrate expertise with Elastic Stack including designing and implementing solutions to aggregate logs from multiple systems.
  • Extensive experience installing, configuring, upgrading, maintaining and troubleshooting Elastic Stack components
  • Proficient in developing Kibana visualizations, dashboards, and alerting capabilities to support threat hunting, security monitoring, and data analytics
  • Strong knowledge of log ingestion pipelines, Elastic Common Schema (ECS) formatting, and Logstash plugins and filters.
  • Experience maintaining and troubleshooting Elastic infrastructure and proactively identifying and resolving anomalous behavior prior to escalation
  • Skilled in deploying and managing systems in compliance with federal security requirements and standards.
  • Proven ability to lead engineering initiatives, collaborating with vendors to determine best practices for system architecture, deployment, and ongoing maintenance.
  • Solid understanding of system integrations, dependencies, and interactions across complex enterprise environments.
  • Experience utilizing Cribl in the onboarding and normalization process

Requirements:
  • Two (2) years of overall experience in a DoD or Federal IT environment
  • Have an active Top Secret
  • DoD 8570 IAM/IA Technical (IAT) Level II certification
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills for reporting assessment findings.

Stand out with:
  • Bachelor's degree (IT-related field preferred)
  • Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK) and cloud containerization
    Knowledge of Linux/UNIX and networking
  • Familiarity with NIFI, Kafka, Confluent, McAfee, Tenable

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