Elasticsearch Engineer — Cybersecurity & DoD Analytics

August Schell; Fort Meade (MD); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

August Schell is seeking an Elasticsearch Engineer to join our DoD-focused team at Fort Meade, building high-performing systems using Elastic Stack.

You will design, install, configure, and troubleshoot Elastic components, develop Kibana dashboards, and implement secure ingestion pipelines, ensuring compliance with federal standards.

Qualified candidates have a TS clearance, DoD IAM Level II, and 2 years of DoD IT experience; hybrid work with on-site Fort Meade as requested.

Qualifications

• Two (2) years of overall experience in a DoD or Federal IT environment.
• Active Top Secret clearance is required.
• 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, designing and implementing log aggregation solutions.
• Install, configure, upgrade, maintain and troubleshoot Elastic components.
• Develop Kibana visualizations, dashboards, and alerting to support threat hunting and security analytics.
• Manage log ingestion pipelines, ECS formatting, and Logstash plugins/filters.
• Maintain Elastic infrastructure and resolve anomalous behavior prior to escalation.
• Deploy systems compliant with federal security requirements and standards.
• Collaborate with vendors on architecture, deployment, and ongoing maintenance.
• Understand system integrations and interactions across enterprise environments.
• Utilize Cribl in onboarding and normalization processes.

Skills

Elastic Stack

Kibana dashboards

Logstash

Cribl

Docker

Kubernetes

Linux/Unix

NIFI

Kafka

Confluent

McAfee

Tenable

ECS formatting

ECK

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT/CS

DoD 8570 IAM/IA Technical (IAT) Level II

Tools

ECK

Cribl

Job description

August Schell is seeking an Elasticsearch Engineer to join our DoD-focused team at Fort Meade, building high-performing systems using Elastic Stack.

You will design, install, configure, and troubleshoot Elastic components, develop Kibana dashboards, and implement secure ingestion pipelines, ensuring compliance with federal standards.

Qualified candidates have a TS clearance, DoD IAM Level II, and 2 years of DoD IT experience; hybrid work with on-site Fort Meade as requested.