Senior Elastic Stack Architect: Scale Security Telemetry

CyberMaxx, Inc.; Linthicum (MD); On-site; USD 160,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible PTO

401k with company match

Medical, Dental and Vision insurance

Disability insurance

Mental health support

Job summary

CyberMaxx, Inc. is seeking a Senior Elastic Engineer to own and optimize the Elastic Stack, ensuring reliability, security, and scalable data processing for security telemetry.

You will lead ingestion pipelines from EDR, cloud, and network sources, and collaborate with detection engineering to improve performance and detections. You will mentor a small team of Elastic engineers, define standards, and drive on-call readiness, upgrades, and runbooks while documenting architecture decisions for

Qualifications

• 7+ years in search/data engineering or infra roles with 6+ years of Elasticsearch/Elastic Stack architecture experience.
• Deep Elasticsearch internals knowledge: sharding, ILM, mapping, query DSL/ES|QL, scale tuning.
• Experience building ingestion pipelines with Logstash/Beats/Elastic Agent, esp. security logs.
• Cloud experience (AWS/Azure), Docker/Kubernetes, and infrastructure-as-code.
• Knowledge of security operations concepts and SIEM workflows is a plus.
• Programming or scripting ability (Python/Go) for automation.

Responsibilities

• Architect and own Elastic Stack for high-volume security telemetry and detection.
• Design ILM strategies, data models, sharding, and tiering for petabyte-scale data.
• Build and harden ingestion pipelines from multiple sources into Elastic Stack.
• Tune cluster performance and perform capacity planning for growth.
• Own Elastic Stack security, upgrades, runbooks, monitoring, and IR processes.
• Evaluate new Elastic capabilities to improve detection and analyst UX.
• Set technical direction and mentor a small Elastic engineering team.
• Document architecture decisions and represent Elastic platform in cross-functional planning.

Skills

Elastic Stack architecture

Cloud platforms AWS/Azure

Docker/Kubernetes

Scripting Python/Go

Security operations concepts

Mentoring engineers

ECK/Elastic Security

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/EE or equivalent

Tools

Elasticsearch/Logstash

Kibana/Beats

Elastic Agent

ILM/Index lifecycle

Job description

CyberMaxx, Inc. is seeking a Senior Elastic Engineer to own and optimize the Elastic Stack, ensuring reliability, security, and scalable data processing for security telemetry.

You will lead ingestion pipelines from EDR, cloud, and network sources, and collaborate with detection engineering to improve performance and detections. You will mentor a small team of Elastic engineers, define standards, and drive on-call readiness, upgrades, and runbooks while documenting architecture decisions for