Elasticsearch Engineer

August Schell is looking for an Elasticsearch Engineer to join our team in support of a cybersecurity, network architecture, and mission support role with our DoD customer.  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