Elastic Engineer

GuidePoint Security • Alexandria, VA

21h • Hybrid

About The Position

GuidePoint Security is growing its federal presales engineering team and looking for technically exceptional engineers who thrive at the intersection of federal mission and cybersecurity technology. As an Elastic Engineer, you’ll collaborate as an essential member of the Data Analytics team, working closely with cyber architects and cloud security architect SMEs to gather key stakeholder requirements and translate them into system use-case methodologies and technical specifications. This role supports remote work, located in Alexandria, VA.

Requirements

• Must be able to obtain Public Trust clearance
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent with 7 years of related experience; or Master’s degree with 3-5 years of experience.
• Minimum 5 years of Linux scripting and automation experience using Bash, Python, and/or Java.
• Experience in installing and administering COTS applications on RHEL and/or CentOS Linux.
• Proficient in building, monitoring, tuning, and troubleshooting AWS instances.
• Ansible Automation expertise (or similar tool).
• Working knowledge of Elastic.

Nice To Haves

• DevOps experience is preferred.
• Elastic Certified Engineer: Focuses on managing Elasticsearch clusters, developing search solutions, and cluster maintenance.
• Elastic Certified Analyst: Focuses on using Kibana for data visualization, building advanced dashboards, and detecting anomalies.
• Elastic Certified Observability Engineer: Focuses on unifying logs, metrics, and APM traces to monitor and troubleshoot complex ecosystems.
• Elastic Certified SIEM Analyst: Focuses on threat hunting and using Elastic Security for SIEM.

Responsibilities

• Provide data analytics support and expertise in data science for specialized cybersecurity applications and big data analytical systems.
• Collect and analyze information on enterprise data sources, formats, and key stakeholder use cases.
• Transform data sets into a common schema by merging various event types to create enriched datasets.
• Assist in technical design, documentation, testing, and resolution of identified bugs/defects.
• Support the consolidation of metadata, data management, and search tools into a comprehensive Cybersecurity Data Catalog.
• Translate data into actionable insights through intelligent analytics.
• Define raw input requirements for data models, ensuring quick analysis and summary reporting for informed decision-making.
• Meet professional obligations through efficient work habits, including meeting deadlines, honoring schedules, and coordinating resources and meetings effectively.
• Provide development support for emerging requirements in event ingest and transformation into a common data schema.
• Design and develop Elastic Beats or Logstash configurations for efficient data collection.
• Establish and implement a Data Governance Workflow, emphasizing metadata, data sources, data quality, policies, and procedures.

Benefits

• Group Medical Insurance options: Zero Deductible PPO Plan (GuidePoint pays 90% of the premium for employees and 70% for family plans (spouse/children/family) or High Deductible Health Plan with HSA (GuidePoint pays 100% of the employees premiums and 75% for family plans (spouse/children/family). If you choose the High Deductible / HSA plan, GPS will contribute in 4 equal quarterly installments: ($850 per EE annually / $1750 per family annually (includes spouse/children/family options)
• Group Dental Insurance: GuidePoint pays 100% of the premium for employees and 75% of family plans
• 12 corporate holidays
• Flexible Time Off (FTO) program
• Healthy mobile phone and home internet allowance
• Eligibility for retirement plan after 2 months at open enrollment
• Pet Benefit Option

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior