ECS · 1 day ago
Elastic Engineer
ECS is a leading provider of managed cybersecurity services, and they are seeking an Elastic Engineer to join their team. This technical hands-on role involves designing, building, securing, and maintaining multiple Elastic Stack Enterprise solutions deployed globally in a Federal DoD environment.
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Responsibilities
Support ECS's Army PEO C3N program
Design, build, secure, maintain, optimize, and document multiple Elastic Stack Enterprise solutions (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Beats, ML, SIEM)
Perform continuous data normalization support functions
Support the delivery of written technical deliverables such as SOPs and/or process workflows to optimize tool usage and contribute to new capabilities
Support internal engineering personnel and external customer requirements
Qualification
Required
Minimum Secret Clearance is required
Compliance with DoD 8140 / 8570 IAT Level II certification prior to start date
Certified Elastic Engineer or willingness to gain certification within 90 days of hire
At least 4 years' hands-on experience in deployment, configuration, and solution development using the Elastic Stack for security and logging use-cases. Specific experience with Elastic SIEM is plus
Demonstrated experience with the full Elastic Stack - Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Beats, Machine Learning, and REST API integration
Demonstrated ability to utilize Ansible Playbook
Preferred
Experience integrating Elasticsearch with external systems (e.g. SOAR tools, Threat Intel Platforms)
Experience with data management: hot/warm/cold architectures, shard allocation/re-allocation, snapshots & restoration
Strong experience with evaluating existing Elastic clusters, configuration parameters, indexing, search and query performance tuning, security, and cluster administration
Experience integrating Elasticsearch with alternate authentication mechanisms such as SAML, LDAP, and PKI
Experience with supporting the Elastic Stack in on-prem and SaaS environments including system monitoring and tuning
Experience securing the Elastic stack and hardening hosting environments
Experience with developing in multiple languages (Python, Bash, PowerShell, Painless, etc.)
Experience with the design and implement of highly scalable solutions using the Elastic Stack
Experience in developing data structures, data mapping from various sources to achieve data normalization using Elastic Common Schema
Experience developing Logstash and/or Ingest Pipelines
Experience developing custom visualizations and dashboards using Kibana
Developing custom reporting solutions using APIs that leverage Elasticsearch and ElastiCache
Experience in end-to-end Low-level design, development, administration, and delivery of Elasticsearch based reporting solutions
Strong technical foundation in building reliable, scalable, and supportable systems
Experienced in Red Hat Enterprise Linux deployment and administration
Company
ECS
ECS is a fast-growing 4,000-person, $1.2B provider of advanced technology solutions for federal civilian, defense, intelligence, and commercial customers.
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
unknown2018-01-31Acquired
2015-04-10Private Equity
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