Elasticsearch Engineer
Job in
Fort Meade, Anne Arundel County, Maryland, USA
Listed on 2026-07-15
Listing for:
August Schell
Full Time
position Listed on 2026-07-15
Job specializations:
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IT/Tech
Systems Engineer, Cybersecurity, Cloud Computing: Infrastructure & Operations
Job Description & How to Apply Below
August Schell is looking for an Elasticsearch Engineer to join our team in support of a cybersecurity, network architecture, and mission support role with our DoD customer. The engineer will be part of a project team responsible for working with clients and peers and building a high performing system using Elastic.
Individuals in this role must be able to work hybrid and go on site at Fort Meade as requested.
Responsibilities- Demonstrate expertise with Elastic Stack including designing and implementing solutions to aggregate logs from multiple systems.
- Extensive experience installing, configuring, upgrading, maintaining and troubleshooting Elastic Stack components
- Proficient in developing Kibana visualizations, dashboards, and alerting capabilities to support threat hunting, security monitoring, and data analytics
- Strong knowledge of log ingestion pipelines, Elastic Common Schema (ECS) formatting, and Logstash plugins and filters.
- Experience maintaining and troubleshooting Elastic infrastructure and proactively identifying and resolving anomalous behavior prior to escalation
- Skilled in deploying and managing systems in compliance with federal security requirements and standards.
- Proven ability to lead engineering initiatives, collaborating with vendors to determine best practices for system architecture, deployment, and ongoing maintenance.
- Solid understanding of system integrations, dependencies, and interactions across complex enterprise environments.
- Experience utilizing Cribl in the onboarding and normalization process
- Two (2) years of overall experience in a DoD or Federal IT environment
- Have an active Top Secret
- DoD 8570 IAM/IA Technical (IAT) Level II certification
- Strong written and verbal communication skills for reporting assessment findings.
- Bachelor's degree (IT-related field preferred)
- Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK) and cloud containerization Knowledge of Linux/UNIX and networking
- Familiarity with NIFI, Kafka, Confluent, McAfee, Tenable
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