Elastic Engineer

Requisition #539 

Job Title: Security Engineer II

Location: 22001 Loudoun  County PkwyAshburn, Virginia20147

Clearance Level: Active DoD - Public Trust

Required Certification(s): 

·       Nice to have: Elastic Engineer, Elastic Analyst, and/or Elastic Observability Engineer Certifications.

SUMMARY

The  Security Operations Center (SOC) is a US Government program responsible to prevent, identify, contain and eradicate cyber threats to our customers networks through monitoring, intrusion detection and protective security services to our clients information systems including local area networks/wide area networks (LAN/WAN), commercial Internet connection, public facing websites, wireless, mobile/cellular, cloud, security devices, servers and workstations.  The SOC is responsible for the overall security of our clients Enterprise-wide information systems, and collects, investigates, and reports any suspected and confirmed security violations.

We are seeking a talented  Mid-Level Elastic Engineer to join our team. The ideal candidate will have experience working with Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, and Beats) to develop, manage, and support scalable search and analytics solutions. The candidate will be part of the Enterprise Logging Solution Team, responsible for maintaining our clients Elastic instances with a heavy emphasis on data on-boarding, content development, configuration, troubleshooting, reporting, and visualizations.  Prior experience with Splunk is a strong plus.

JOB DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

·       Design, develop, and maintain custom dashboards using Elastic stack for monitoring and visualization of system metrics, logs, and traces.

·       Monitor and optimize the performance of Elastic Stack clusters to ensure high availability, reliability, and performance.

·       Work with data sources and ETL processes to integrate and normalize data into Elasticsearch, ensuring data quality and consistency.

·       Implement and maintain security best practices for Elastic Stack, including access controls, encryption, and compliance with regulatory standards.

·       Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for Elastic Stack configurations, processes, and procedures.

·       Maintain Elasticsearch clusters in a cloud based environment across multiple availability zones.

QUALIFICATIONS

Required Certifications

·       Nice to have: Elastic Engineer, Elastic Analyst, and/or Elastic Observability Engineer Certifications.

Education, Background, and Years of Experience

·       Bachelors’ degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Cyber Security, or related field and 4 to 8 years of related experience.  Additional years of experience and cyber certifications may be considered in lieu of degree.

ADDITIONAL SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS

Required Skills

·       Bachelors’ degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Cyber Security, or related field and 4 to 8 years of related experience.  Additional years of experience and cyber certifications may be considered in lieu of degree.

·       3+ years of Elasticsearch stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Beats, Kibana) experience in active production environment.

·       Experience with data ingest, Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) techniques.

·       Experience with multi-node clustering, architecture, development, implementation, and health monitoring of the indexes.

·       Advanced understanding of Elasticsearch Management, reindexing and data mappings, JSON and KQL searching syntax, and Kibana dashboard options.

·       Experience working with various versions of JAVA.

·       Experienced Linux administrator with strong bash scripting ability.

·       Proficient with managing AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service.

·       Experience troubleshooting, tuning, and configuring Elasticsearch clusters, nodes, shards, and analyzers from the “ground up.”

·       Experience configuring and managing Elastic CDM Dashboard / XML.

·       Proficient with Ansible Ad-hoc commands and creating / editing playbooks for automation.

·       Experience designing, documenting, implementing, securing, and maintaining Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana (ELK Stack) Enterprise solutions.

·       Excellent problem-solving skills with the ability to troubleshoot and resolve complex issues in a timely manner.

·       Employees are required to favorably pass a 5-year (BI) Background Investigation.

·       Familiar with the management, operational, and technical aspects of IT Security in a complex enterprise environment.

Preferred Skills

·       Elastic Engineer, Elastic Analyst, and/or Elastic Observability Engineer Certifications.

·       Experience with deploying and using Elasticsearch in Commercial Cloud Platform (ex, AWS, Google Cloud, Azure).

·       Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python or PowerShell for automation and integration tasks.

·       Knowledge of PKI (ability to create and validate certificates).

WORKING CONDITIONS

Environmental Conditions

·       Monday - Friday, day shift.

Strength Demands

·       Sedentary – 10 lbs. Maximum lifting, occasional lift/carry of small articles.  Some occasional walking or standing may be required.   Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally, and all other sedentary criteria are met.

Physical Requirements

·       Stand or Sit; Walk; Repetitive Motion; Use Hands / Fingers to Handle or Feel; Stoop, Kneel, Crouch, or Crawl; See