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Elasticsearch Engineer

August Schell

Fort Meade, MD • 10/5/2026

Job Description

Job Description

August Schellis looking foranElasticsearch Engineerto join our team in support ofacybersecurity, network architecture, and mission support rolewith our DoD customer. Theengineerwill be part of a project team responsible forworking with clients and peers and building a high performing system using Elastic.

Individuals in this role must be ablework hybrid and go on site at Fort Meade as requested.

Responsibilities Include:

  • DemonstrateexpertisewithElastic Stackincluding designing and implementing solutions to aggregate logs frommultiple systems.

  • Extensive experienceinstalling, configuring, upgrading,maintainingand troubleshooting Elastic Stack components

  • Proficient in developingKibanavisualizations,dashboards,and alerting capabilitiestosupportthreat hunting, security monitoring,anddataanalytics

  • Strong knowledge of log ingestion pipelines, Elastic Common Schema (ECS) formatting, and Logstash plugins and filters.

  • Experiencemaintainingand troubleshooting Elastic infrastructure andproactivelyidentifyingand resolvinganomalous 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 todeterminebest practices for system architecture, deployment, and ongoing maintenance.

  • Solid understanding of system integrations, dependencies, and interactions across complex enterprise environments.

  • Experience utilizingCriblin the onboarding and normalization process

Requirements:

  • Two(2) years of overall experience ina DoD or FederalIT environment

  • Have an activeTopSecret

  • 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

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