ECS is seeking a Sr Elastic Engineer to work in Fort Meade, MD/Hybrid.
As a leading provider of managed cybersecurity services, ECS provides a highly tailored and customized offering to each customer. Our team is responsible for protecting both our customers and corporate environment at ECS. Our mission is very broad, and our team is agile. We will look toward your unique skills to approach and solve problems in your own way. Whether engineering a system to address a technical hurdle, protecting customers data or consulting on a wide range of security topics. You are empowered to engage and lead across multiple groups.
This role of Senior Elastic Engineer will support ECS's Army Endpoint Security Solution (AESS) program. This is a technical hands-on role to which you will be responsible for working within a multi-disciplined team to design, build, secure, maintain, optimize, and document multiple Elastic deployed globally in a Federal DoD environment. These deployments leverage the full Elastic Stack of capabilities such as Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Beats, Machine Learning, SIEM, and Fleet. Along with third-party technologies like Cribl Kafka. You will provide continuous data normalization support functions and support the delivery of written technical deliverables such as SOPs and/or process workflows to optimize tool usage and contribute to new capabilities.
Responsibilities:
• Design, deploy, configure, and maintain Elastic stack and Cribl Kafka deployments.
• Manage, patch, and upgrade Elasticsearch, Cribl and other related systems.
• Tune and optimize Elastic stack deployments based on application/customer needs.
• Design and configure ETL data pipelines to ingest customer defined data sets such as application logs, metrics, and or threat events.
• Create custom visualizations and dashboards using Kibana.
• Configure and maintain index templates and information lifecycle management (ILM) policies.
• Develop Elastic alerting solutions using Watcher and/or Kibana Rules and Connectors with integrations to ticketing systems, email, and messaging apps as required.
• Develop Machine Learning (ML) jobs to dynamically monitor and alert on identified metrics, KPIs, and/or data anomalies.
• Follow ITIL based change management processes to move solutions from Dev to Test and into Production
Salary Range: $170,000 - $190,000
General Description of Benefits
Preferred Qualifications- Minimum Top-Secret clearance is required, can start with Secret.
- Compliance with DoD 8140 / 8570 IAT Level II certification prior to start date.
- Certified Elastic Engineer or willingness to gain certification within 180 days of hire.
- At least 6 years’ hands-on experience in deployment, configuration, and solution development using the Elastic Stack for security and logging use-cases. Specific experience with Elastic
Skills Required
- Minimum Top Secret security clearance; candidates may start with Secret clearance
- DoD 8140 / 8570 IAT Level II certification before the start date
- At least 6 years of hands-on experience deploying, configuring, and developing Elastic Stack solutions for security and logging use cases
- Certified Elastic Engineer certification or willingness to obtain certification within 180 days of hire
ECS Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about ECS and has not been reviewed or approved by ECS.
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Healthcare Strength — ECS advertises multiple national-network medical plan options with HSA eligibility alongside dental and vision coverage. Coverage generally begins quickly and is paired with company-paid short- and long-term disability, adding stability to the health package.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with Safe Harbor and immediate vesting on employer contributions is emphasized, with an employer match available. Access to an employee stock purchase plan via the parent company provides an additional savings avenue.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave up to 30 days, adoption assistance, and other family-oriented leaves are highlighted. Feedback suggests these offerings add meaningful value beyond base pay for many roles.
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What We Do
ECS, a segment of ASGN (NYSE: ASGN), delivers advanced solutions and services in cloud, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), application and IT modernization, and science and engineering. The company solves critical, complex challenges for customers across the U.S. public sector, defense, intelligence and commercial industries. ECS maintains partnerships with leading cloud, cybersecurity, and AI/ML providers and holds specialized certifications in their technologies. Headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia, ECS has more than 3,400 employees throughout the U.S. and has been recognized as a Top Workplace by The Washington Post for the last five years.
