The Elastic Engineer will be a part of a team of Data Analytic Engineers enhancing, maintaining, and sustaining an Elastic, Logstash, and Kibana (ELK) instance with a heavy emphasis on data on-boarding, content development, configuration, troubleshooting, reporting, and visualizations. The candidate must possess prior Elastic engineering and administration experience, meet the necessary certification prerequisites, and work well in a distributed team environment.
The Duties and Responsibilities of this role include:
- Building data pipelines to ingest external datasets into Elastic products.
- Designing, building, deploying, maintaining, and enhancing the Elastic Logstash Kibana (ELK) platform.
- Installing and configuring ELK.
- Using Elastic search Indices, Elastic search APIs, Kibana Dashboards, Log Stash and Beats.
- Using or creating plug-ins for ELK like authentication and authorization plug-ins.
- Integrating ELK with enterprise tools and APIs, such as for authentication and authorization.
- Designing and implementing complex development use cases and scenarios using programming language, such as Python, Groovy, and Bash.
- Using Elastic Search Cluster Monitoring Tools.
Required skills:
- U.S. Citizenship
- Active Secret (S) clearance. Must be able to obtain a TS/SCI clearance
- Must be able to obtain DHS Suitability
- 6+ years of directly relevant software development experience required.
- At least 2 years of experience as an Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK) admin or equivalent role.
- At least 2 years of experience with Elasticsearch Domain Specific Language (DSL).
- At least 5 years of experience with Kubernetes architecture.
- Strong knowledge of ELK stack.
- Knowledge of scripting languages, such as JavaScript, Python, Bash, etc.
Desired Skills:
- Experience working in an agile environment.
- Experience supporting federal customers.
Required Education:
- Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science or a related discipline is required.
Desired Certifications:
- DoD 8570.1-M Compliance at IAT Level I (e.g., Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)) certification highly desired
- Agile software development methodology certification (e.g. SCRUM Master) highly desired.
- Has achieved an Elastic certification, such as: Elastic Certified Engineer, Elastic Certified Analyst, or Elastic Certified Observable Engineer
- Has achieved a Kubernetes certification, such as: Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate (KCNA), Kubernetes and Cloud Native Security Associate (KCSA), Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD), Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), or Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS)
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