Job Description

Role: Sr. SIEM Engineer (Elastic+ Confluence)
Location: 5 days onsite in Ft. Belvoir, VA
Duration: Long Term Contract
Citizenship: US Citizen (able to obtain Secret Clearance) They either need to be Elastic Certified or be willing to obtain an Elastic Certification within the first 90 days. Looking for a SME with security and transport experience as well as working with the system feeding Elastic. Top Requirements Elastic
Confluence
Security+ or any IAT Level II Cert
SIEM experience Responsibilities:
• Design, deploy, configure, and maintain Elastic stack and Confluent deployments
• Manage, patch, and upgrade Elasticsearch, Confluent, 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
• Run the day-to-day operations of the security operations center
• Investigate incidents and lead response efforts as applicable Required Skills:
• A Secret clearance will be required to maintain this position
• Compliance with DoD 8140 / 8570 IAT Level II certification prior to start date
• At least 5 years of 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
• 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 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 Elastic Ingest Pipelines
• Experience developing custom visualizations and dashboards using Kibana, including creating specialized reporting solutions through Elasticsearch and Kibana APIs to meet complex stakeholder requirements
• 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 Desired Skills:
• Experience using and developing Ansible playbooks for automation of system deployment and/or configuration
• Experience with developing in multiple languages (Python, Bash, PowerShell, Painless, etc.).
• Understanding of the MITRE ATT&CK framework
• Certified Elastic Engineer or willingness to gain certification within 90 days of hire
• Experience with cloud environments (e.g., Azure, AWS, GCP, etc.) and cloud security architecture
• Experience condensing large environments to a single pane of glass view to facilitate optimal operational efficiency
• Experience leading incident response and forensic investigative initiatives
• Demonstrated ability to create and present executive level briefings
• Experience with Army policies, regulations, and processes preferred Thanks and Regards
Murali Sharma
202.828.3494

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