Elastic Stack Architect – Remote/Hybrid Data Solutions Lead

ASRC Federal; Quantico (VA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Telework available

Onsite 3 days/week at Quantico

Job summary

ASRC Federal seeks an Elastic Architect/Engineer to design, implement, and optimize the Elastic Stack infrastructure for data ingestion, search, and analytics. This role supports the DCSA contract based at Quantico VA with telework flexibility and onsite presence up to three days per week.

The ideal candidate will have a strong background in data architecture, large-scale data processing, and visualization, plus active Top-Secret clearance and certification requirements.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in data architecture, search engineering, or big data solutions.
• Active Top-Secret Clearance REQUIRED, eligible to be upgraded to TS/SCI
• Must meet 8570 IASAE III certification requirements at hire (e.g., CISSP-ISSAP, CISSP-ISSEP)
• Bachelor’s Degree in Cybersecurity, Information Systems Management, or equivalent experience.
• Highly desired: Elastic Certified Engineer (ECE) certification.

Responsibilities

• Elastic Architecture and Design: design scalable Elastic Stack solutions, data models, index strategies, shard allocation, and install/configure components.
• Data Ingestion and Processing: build data ingestion pipelines with Logstash/Beats and other tools like Kafka, perform data transformation and parsing for indexing.
• Search, Analytics, and Visualization: develop complex search queries, analytics, dashboards, and visualizations in Kibana for stakeholders.
• Performance Tuning and Optimization: monitor cluster health, optimize performance, and plan capacity for growth.
• System Administration and Maintenance: manage Elastic cluster, upgrades, patching, security (RBAC, encryption, SSO), backups and DR.
• Collaboration and Support: work with development teams, provide expert-level support, troubleshoot Elastic ecosystem issues.
• Continuous Improvement: stay current with Elastic features, document standards and best practices.

Skills

Data architecture

Search engineering

Big data solutions

Security clearance awareness

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity or Information Systems Management

Tools

Elastic Stack

Elasticsearch

Logstash

Kibana

Beats

Kafka

Job description

ASRC Federal seeks an Elastic Architect/Engineer to design, implement, and optimize the Elastic Stack infrastructure for data ingestion, search, and analytics. This role supports the DCSA contract based at Quantico VA with telework flexibility and onsite presence up to three days per week.

The ideal candidate will have a strong background in data architecture, large-scale data processing, and visualization, plus active Top-Secret clearance and certification requirements.