ECS is seeking a
Sr Elastic Engineer to work in
Fort Meade, MD/Hybrid.This role of Senior Elastic Engineer will support ECS's Army Endpoint Security Solution (AESS) program. This is a technical hands-on role to which you will be responsible for working within a multi-disciplined team to design, build, secure, maintain, optimize, and document multiple Elastic deployed globally in a Federal DoD environment. These deployments leverage the full Elastic Stack of capabilities such as Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Beats, Machine Learning, SIEM, and Fleet. Along with third-party technologies like Cribl Kafka. You will provide continuous data normalization support functions and support the delivery of written technical deliverables such as SOPs and/or process workflows to optimize tool usage and contribute to new capabilities.
Responsibilities:
• Design, deploy, configure, and maintain Elastic stack and Cribl Kafka deployments.
• Manage, patch, and upgrade Elasticsearch, Cribl and other related systems.
• Tune and optimize Elastic stack deployments based on application/customer needs.
• Design and configure ETL data pipelines to ingest customer defined data sets such as application logs, metrics, and or threat events.
• Create custom visualizations and dashboards using Kibana.
• Configure and maintain index templates and information lifecycle management (ILM) policies.
• Develop Elastic alerting solutions using Watcher and/or Kibana Rules and Connectors with integrations to ticketing systems, email, and messaging apps as required.
• Develop Machine Learning (ML) jobs to dynamically monitor and alert on identified metrics, KPIs, and/or data anomalies.
• Follow ITIL based change management processes to move solutions from Dev to Test and into Production
Salary Range: $170,000 - $190,000
General Description of Benefits
- Minimum Top-Secret clearance is required, can start with Secret.
- Compliance with DoD 8140 / 8570 IAT Level II certification prior to start date.
- Certified Elastic Engineer or willingness to gain certification within 180 days of hire.
- At least 6 years' hands-on experience in deployment, configuration, and solution development using the Elastic Stack for security and logging use-cases. Specific experience with Elastic
