Enterprise Logging Solution (ELS) Engineer - Junior, Mid-Level & Senior [U.S. Citizenship & CBP BI – High Trust Required]

Via Logic LLC • Ashburn, VA

15h • $112,000 - $159,000 • Onsite

About The Position

Reliable security monitoring starts with reliable data. Join Via Logic supporting U.S. Customs and Border Protection cybersecurity operations, where you’ll help keep enterprise logging systems collecting, processing, and delivering the information security teams need to protect critical systems and networks. As an ELS Engineer, you’ll maintain log collection infrastructure, configure log sources, monitor logging system health and performance, and help develop and test log parsers and correlation rules. You’ll also support troubleshooting, system onboarding, dashboards, and improvements that make security data useful to analysts, system owners, and government stakeholders. We are hiring for multiple openings across Junior, Mid-Level, and Senior experience levels through this posting. We’ll consider the depth and relevance of your experience, technical capabilities, and ability to work independently when identifying the opening that fits your background.

Requirements

• Relevant professional experience in enterprise logging, SIEM administration, security engineering, systems administration, or related technical work.
• Experience configuring, maintaining, or troubleshooting log collection infrastructure, data sources, or security monitoring platforms.
• Understanding of how logs move from source systems through collection, processing, and ingestion into a centralized platform.
• Ability to investigate technical issues involving data feeds, connectivity, configuration, or platform performance.
• Familiarity with log parsing, search queries, correlation rules, dashboards, or similar capabilities used to interpret security data.
• Experience maintaining technical documentation and communicating implementation or troubleshooting steps clearly.
• Ability to collaborate with technical teams and explain findings, impacts, and recommended next steps.
• U.S. citizen.
• Able to obtain and maintain the required CBP BI - High Trust background investigation and suitability determination, including applicable credit history review, for access to government facilities and systems.

Nice To Haves

• Hands-on experience administering or engineering enterprise SIEM and logging platforms.
• Experience developing log parsers, correlation rules, dashboards, or security monitoring content.
• Experience onboarding logs from cloud services, network devices, endpoints, applications, or security tools.
• Experience with scripting or automation to support logging operations and troubleshooting.
• Experience supporting streaming data pipelines, high availability, or multi-site logging environments.
• Experience implementing changes through established testing, configuration management, and change control processes.
• Experience supporting federal systems, security audits, or logging compliance requirements.

Responsibilities

• Maintain enterprise log collection infrastructure and support the health, performance, and reliability of ELS and SIEM platforms.
• Configure, onboard, and maintain log sources so security teams can monitor systems, applications, networks, endpoints, and cloud environments.
• Troubleshoot log collection, processing, connectivity, and ingestion issues, including interruptions to existing data feeds.
• Develop, test, and maintain log parsers, correlation rules, signatures, and other security content.
• Support the collection and aggregation of data from sources such as firewalls, intrusion detection systems, endpoint tools, proxy servers, DLP platforms, cloud services, and vulnerability scanners.
• Create and maintain dashboards that support security monitoring, system oversight, and audit reporting.
• Support testing and implementation of approved logging enhancements in on-premises and cloud environments.
• Identify gaps in logging coverage, platform capabilities, and supporting processes, and recommend practical improvements.
• Support streaming data processing capabilities used for log onboarding, ingestion, and analysis.
• Extract and analyze relevant log information to support security investigations and operational requests.
• Maintain technical documentation, onboarding procedures, implementation plans, and support workflows.
• Collaborate with security analysts, system owners, engineers, and government stakeholders to resolve issues and support approved changes.

Benefits

• Healthcare coverage
• Paid time off

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed