Senior Elastic Stack Architect for Security Telemetry

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

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.