Elasticsearch Engineer (TS/SCI CI Poly Clearance Required)

North Point Technology•Chantilly, VA

About The Position

North Point Technology is seeking an experienced TS Cleared ElasticSearch Engineer to provide support to an Elastic Stack Application involving a mission critical enterprise identity and access management system. This position will support the development and operations of an enterprise application that visualizes identity and access management (IDAM) data related to authentication services across NGA and other DoD systems. The application is built on the ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana), and the role involves supporting the full lifecycle including design, development, monitoring, and troubleshooting. This program requires employees to have an active TS/SCI clearance with and SCI and must pass a CI Poly every 5 years. If you have a Full Scope Poly, working this program will keep your Full Scope ACTIVE.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in related discipline
Experience as a software developer, integrator, administrator, or similar technical role
Experience designing, developing, and deploying solutions using the Elastic stack, including Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, and Beats.
Active Top Secret clearance
Must be able to obtain and maintain CI (Counterintelligence) polygraph
SEC+ certification or DoD 8570 IAT Level II certification, or ability to attain certification within 60 days of start
Experience with Elastic stack security features, such as client authentication, SSL/TLS configuration, and role-based document filtering
Strong documentation skills with a proven ability to develop troubleshooting guides, standard operating procedures, architecture diagrams, etc.
Highly autonomous, self-directed, and proactive when it comes to maintaining system infrastructure and log data integrity
Experience working with Agile tools such as Jira / Confluence etc.

Nice To Haves

Elastic Certified Engineer
Experience with container orchestration technologies like Docker and Kubernetes
Experience working in a production environment with strict availability/uptime requirements
Experience or familiarity with identity, credential, and access management (ICAM) technologies and concepts

Responsibilities

Design, develop, and deploy a log analytics and infrastructure monitoring solution using the Elastic stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Beats, and Kibana). This solution will act in support of an existing identity, credential, and access management (ICAM) system.
Deploy, configure, test, troubleshoot, maintain, upgrade Elastic clusters and environments
Plan resources and continuously optimize the infrastructure and configuration of Elasticsearch to maintain cluster health and search performance
Configure Kibana for end-user access using role-based filtering and/or multi-tenancy features
Interface with other developers to integrate Elastic stack with existing ICAM baseline
Responsible for gathering monthly and quarterly metrics for customer review
Resolve installation, infrastructure, data flow, and log ingest issues in both development and production environments
Perform daily administration tasks for Elasticsearch clusters and environments
Work in an Agile environment: estimate features and user stories, participate in developing sprint roadmaps, analyze user stories, develop design and architecture elements to support user story and / or feature development
Work in DevSecOps environment with automated CI/CD pipelines
Participate in design reviews
Develop mockups and wireframes
Conduct peer reviews and code reviews