Senior Elastic Engineer

CyberMaxx; Linthicum (MD); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k with company match

Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage

Paid time off

Employee assistance program

Job summary

CyberMaxx is seeking a Senior Elastic Engineer to own the Elastic Stack across security telemetry ingestion, search, and analysis. You will drive reliability, security, and scalability while aligning with workflows and improving detection capabilities.

You will design data models, ILM strategies, and tiering for petabyte-scale data, while mentoring a small Elastic engineering team and collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in search/data engineering or infrastructure roles.
• 6+ years of hands-on Elasticsearch/Elastic Stack architecture experience.
• Experience building ingestion pipelines with Logstash, Beats, or Elastic Agent, preferably with security/log data.

Responsibilities

• Architect and own the Elastic Stack for high-volume security telemetry ingestion, detection, and search.
• Design ILM strategies, sharding, and hot-warm-cold tiering for large-scale data.
• Build and harden ingestion pipelines from EDR, network, cloud, and log sources into the Elastic Stack.
• Tune cluster performance and drive capacity planning for growth.
• Own Elastic Stack security, upgrades, and runbooks including incident response.
• Evaluate and roll out Elastic capabilities to improve detection speed and analyst experience.
• Set technical direction and mentor a small team of Elastic engineers.
• Document architecture decisions and represent Elastic in cross-functional planning.

Skills

Elastic Stack architecture

Security telemetry

Mentoring/leadership

Scripting (Python/Go)

Tools

Elasticsearch

Logstash

Beats/Elastic Agent

Kibana

Docker/Kubernetes

AWS/Azure

ECK

Job description

At CyberMaxx, we believe it is our duty to defend against those committed to wide-scale societal disruption through cyberattacks.

We help our customers reduce risk by tightly integrating MDR with offensive security, threat hunting, security research, and digital forensics and incident response (DFIR) to continually adapt to new and evolving threats. Our modern MDR (Managed Detection & Response) approach is tailored to the unique characteristics and risk factors of each customer, enabling us to take full ownership of the response process and, optionally, manage key security controls. By thinking like an adversary and defending like a guardian, we help our customers stay a step ahead of threat actors.

At CyberMaxx, we value humility, transparency, intellectual curiosity, and a customer first approach.

The Senior Elastic Engineer is responsible for the administration, optimization, and governance of the full Elastic Stack and ensures its reliability and scalability. This role ensures platform reliability, security, scalability, and alignment with organizational workflows while driving user adoption and continuous improvement.

What You Will Do

• Architect and own the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Beats/Elastic Agent, Kibana) supporting high-volume security telemetry ingestion, detection, and search. Direct implementation experience with ECK is required.
• Design data models, index lifecycle management (ILM) strategies, sharding, and hot-warm-cold tiering for petabyte-scale, multi-tenant security data.
• Build and harden ingestion pipelines from EDR, network, cloud, and log sources into the Elastic Stack, in partnership with detection engineering.
• Tune cluster performance - query latency, indexing throughput, resource allocation - and drive capacity planning for growth.
• Own Elastic Stack security, upgrades, and reliability, including runbooks, monitoring, and incident response for the platform itself.
• Evaluate and roll out new Elastic capabilities (e.g., Elastic Security, ES|QL, machine learning jobs) that improve detection speed and analyst experience.
• Set technical direction for and mentor a small team of Elastic engineers, establishing standards, review practices, and on-call structure for the platform.
• Document architecture decisions, standards, and best practices, and represent the Elastic platform in cross-functional planning and vendor (Elastic) conversations.

What We Are Looking For

• 7+ years in search/data engineering or infrastructure roles, with 6+ years of hands‑on Elasticsearch/Elastic Stack architecture experience.
• Deep expertise in Elasticsearch internals: sharding, replication, ILM, mapping/index design, query DSL and/or ES|QL, and cluster performance tuning at scale.
• Experience building ingestion pipelines with Logstash, Beats, or Elastic Agent, ideally with security/log data (SIEM, EDR, cloud logs).
• Comfort operating Elastic in private and public cloud environments (AWS/Azure) and with containerization (Docker/Kubernetes) and infrastructure-as-code.
• Working knowledge of security operations concepts (detections, alerting, SIEM workflows) is a strong plus.
• Scripting/programming ability (Python, Go, or similar) for automation and tooling.
• Elastic Certified Engineer certification is a plus, not required.

Some Of What We Offer

• Flexible Paid Time Off
• 401k with a company match
• Medical, Dental and Vision Coverage
• Voluntary Short Term and Long-Term Disability
• Employee Assistance Program with Mental Health Supplement
• Voluntary Basic, Accidental, and other ancillary life insurance
• Health Savings Account Contribution (with selection of a HDHP)
• 10 annual, paid holidays

CyberMaxx will consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran or military status, age, genetic information, or other characteristics protected by federal, state, or local applicable law.