Elastic SIEM Engineer

Booz Allen Hamilton•Hampton, VA

3d•Onsite

About The Position

Elastic SIEM Engineer The Opportunity: Design, implement, integrate, and maintain systems and tools to automate complex cyber activities. Apply advanced consulting skills or extensive technical expertise, including full industry knowledge. Develop innovative solutions to complex problems. Work without considerable direction, and mentor and supervise team members. You Have: 3+ years of experience administering Elastic Stack, including Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, Beats, or Fleet Experience managing Elasticsearch index lifecycle policies, index templates, and data streams at scale, and building Kibana dashboards, visualizations, and lens-based analytics for security operations Experience with Elastic Security detection rules, alerts, and case management workflows Experience with log ingestion pipeline design, including parsing, enrichment, and normalization across heterogeneous log sources such as network, endpoint, identity, and cloud Experience with Elastic Common Schema (ECS) and mapping non-standard log sources into ECS-compliant fields Experience working in a DoD, IC, or federal cybersecurity environment such as SOC, SIEM operations, or defensive cyber Knowledge of AI/ML concepts as applied to security analytics such as anomaly detection, behavioral baselining, or threat scoring Ability to work on-site per program requirements, and travel up to 25% of the time TS/SCI clearance Bachelor’s degree Nice If You Have: Experience with Elastic's ML jobs, including for User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA), rare process detection, or anomalous login patterns Experience with Elastic AI Assistant or integration of LLMs into Elastic Security workflows such as natural language querying and alert triage assistance Experience building or fine-tuning ML models outside Elastic, including Python, scikit-learn, and PyTorch, for security use cases such as threat detection or lateral movement scoring Experience with Elastic Agent fleet management at scale, including custom integrations and policy management Experience with cross-domain data flows and working in multi-classification environments such as IL4, IL5, or IL6 Experience with ES|QL or EQL for advanced threat hunting and detection-as-code workflows Experience building SOAR-related automation around Elastic, including webhook actions, connector integrations, or n8n/XSOAR orchestration Experience with Elastic's transforms and runtime fields for creating enriched security datasets and risk scoring indices Experience with RAG architectures or vector search in Elasticsearch for security knowledge retrieval, including TTP lookup and incident context enrichment Elastic Certified Engineer or Elastic Certified Analyst Certification Clearance: Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information; TS/SCI clearance is required. 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Requirements

3+ years of experience administering Elastic Stack, including Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, Beats, or Fleet
Experience managing Elasticsearch index lifecycle policies, index templates, and data streams at scale, and building Kibana dashboards, visualizations, and lens-based analytics for security operations
Experience with Elastic Security detection rules, alerts, and case management workflows
Experience with log ingestion pipeline design, including parsing, enrichment, and normalization across heterogeneous log sources such as network, endpoint, identity, and cloud
Experience with Elastic Common Schema (ECS) and mapping non-standard log sources into ECS-compliant fields
Experience working in a DoD, IC, or federal cybersecurity environment such as SOC, SIEM operations, or defensive cyber
Knowledge of AI/ML concepts as applied to security analytics such as anomaly detection, behavioral baselining, or threat scoring
Ability to work on-site per program requirements, and travel up to 25% of the time
TS/SCI clearance
Bachelor’s degree

Nice To Haves

Experience with Elastic's ML jobs, including for User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA), rare process detection, or anomalous login patterns
Experience with Elastic AI Assistant or integration of LLMs into Elastic Security workflows such as natural language querying and alert triage assistance
Experience building or fine-tuning ML models outside Elastic, including Python, scikit-learn, and PyTorch, for security use cases such as threat detection or lateral movement scoring
Experience with Elastic Agent fleet management at scale, including custom integrations and policy management
Experience with cross-domain data flows and working in multi-classification environments such as IL4, IL5, or IL6
Experience with ES|QL or EQL for advanced threat hunting and detection-as-code workflows
Experience building SOAR-related automation around Elastic, including webhook actions, connector integrations, or n8n/XSOAR orchestration
Experience with Elastic's transforms and runtime fields for creating enriched security datasets and risk scoring indices
Experience with RAG architectures or vector search in Elasticsearch for security knowledge retrieval, including TTP lookup and incident context enrichment
Elastic Certified Engineer or Elastic Certified Analyst Certification

Responsibilities

Design, implement, integrate, and maintain systems and tools to automate complex cyber activities.
Apply advanced consulting skills or extensive technical expertise, including full industry knowledge.
Develop innovative solutions to complex problems.
Work without considerable direction, and mentor and supervise team members.