Elasticsearch Engineer – Cyber Defense (Hybrid/On‑Site)

AUGUST SCHELL ENTERPRISES, INC.; Fort Meade (MD); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

August Schellis seeks an Elasticsearch Engineer to support cybersecurity and DoD mission projects at Fort Meade, working hybrid and on-site as needed. You will design, implement, and maintain Elastic Stack solutions, develop Kibana dashboards, and ensure secure, compliant infrastructure across complex enterprise environments.

The role requires 2+ years in a DoD or federal IT setting, an active TopSecret clearance, and DoD 8570 IAT II certification.

Qualifications

• Two (2) years of experience in a DoD or Federal IT environment.
• Active TopSecret clearance.
• DoD 8570 IAM/IA Technical (IAT) Level II certification.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills for reporting assessment findings.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Elastic Stack

Kibana

Logstash

Cribl

Docker

Kubernetes

Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK)

Linux/UNIX

Cloud containerization

NIFI

Kafka

Confluent

McAfee

Tenable

Cribl

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK)

NIFI

Kafka

Confluent

McAfee

Tenable

Cribl

Job description

August Schellis seeks an Elasticsearch Engineer to support cybersecurity and DoD mission projects at Fort Meade, working hybrid and on-site as needed. You will design, implement, and maintain Elastic Stack solutions, develop Kibana dashboards, and ensure secure, compliant infrastructure across complex enterprise environments.

The role requires 2+ years in a DoD or federal IT setting, an active TopSecret clearance, and DoD 8570 IAT II certification.