Remote Elastic Engineer - EDR & Elastic Stack Expert

Booz Allen Hamilton; United States; On-site; USD 87,000 - 198,000; Full time

Job summary

Booz Allen Hamilton is seeking an Elastic Engineer to design and implement high-performing EDR processes using Elastic Defend and Trellix. The role focuses on aggregating logs into a single ECS-based schema, building visualizations and alerts for threat hunting, and guiding deployment within secure requirements.

You will work with clients and peers to shape system architecture, lifecycle management, and domain-specific risk assessment while mentoring junior staff and delivering innovative

Qualifications

• Experience with Elastic Defend and Elastic Stack components across deployment and troubleshooting.
• Familiarity with Trellix and threat detection workflows.
• Knowledge of cryptography protocols and PKI, TLS and mTLS.
• Understanding of federal compliance standards (NIST 800-53, FIPS, STIG, FedRAMP).
• Hold Secret clearance.

Responsibilities

• Develop high-performing EDR processes and ECS-based schemas.
• Create visualizations and alerts for threat hunting.
• Collaborate with vendors on deployment best practices and system architecture.
• Mentor team members and lead technical workstreams.

Skills

Elastic Defend

Elastic Stack

Elasticsearch

Logstash

Kibana

Trellix

Cryptography protocols

Federal compliance standards

Secret clearance

Education

HS diploma or GED

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK)

NiFi

Kafka

Confluent

Office 365

Teams

RDP

SSH

CLI

Web UI

Job description

Booz Allen Hamilton is seeking an Elastic Engineer to design and implement high-performing EDR processes using Elastic Defend and Trellix. The role focuses on aggregating logs into a single ECS-based schema, building visualizations and alerts for threat hunting, and guiding deployment within secure requirements.

You will work with clients and peers to shape system architecture, lifecycle management, and domain-specific risk assessment while mentoring junior staff and delivering innovative