Elasticsearch Engineer
Itero Group LLC

Job Info

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Itero Group is seeking an experienced Elasticsearch (Elastic/ELK/ECE) Engineer to join our team in the Reston, VA area to provide unparalleled support to multiple federal agencies through the Continuous Diagnostics & Mitigation (CDM) Program. The CDM Program is a high-profile, high-visibility, cybersecurity modernization and risk management program where you can contribute innovative solutions and consult with many different federal agencies to enhance their Information Assurance (IA) programs and continuous monitoring capabilities.

Responsibilities include, but not limited to:

• The Elasticsearch Engineer is responsible for working with the Service Design Team to design, document, build, secure, and maintain Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana (and X-Pack) Enterprise solutions deployed in the Cloud or on-premise proofed in a Lab environment to support federal agency production deployments.
• The Elasticsearch Engineer will work closely with architects, engineers, and integrators to assess customer requirements and to design and support an Elasticsearch Stack solution to ensure compliance with dashboard data requirements.
• Follow life cycle processes to move solutions from Dev to Test to Production.
• Participate in group sessions as well as attend and share in agile sprint daily meetings in order to track progress to ensure development of solutions is in support of the CDM project and customer requirements.
• Serve as a trusted advisor, providing subject matter expertise, guidance, and best practice recommendations.
• Configuring and maintaining Linux based Operating system files in support of the Elasticsearch products (yum updates and product version upgrades).
• Installing and configuring an Elastic Cloud Enterprise solution in a lab and ensuring communication and integration among the Elasticsearch products and data sources.
• Documenting the installation and configuration for deployment into production.
• Securing the solution by being familiarity with TLS, certificates, SSO/PIV authentication, and encryption technologies.
• Working with the data lifecycle management.
• Testing data flows, troubleshooting issues, and monitoring the health of the solution and servers to maximize performance and minimize downtime.
• Working with a team and providing analysis of alternatives and progress status in daily sprint meetings.
• Meet professional obligations through efficient work habits such as, meeting deadlines, honoring schedules, coordinating resources and meetings in an effective and timely manner.
• Develop and manage effective working relationships with other departments, groups and personnel with whom work must be coordinated or interface.
• Recommend enhancements and modifications to optimize business intelligence processes.

Required Education and Experience:

• BS in Computer Science or related field required.
• 2+ years of Elasticsearch stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Beats, Kibana, and X-pack) experience in production.
• Linux, CentOS and/or Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) experience.
• Experience with Elastic Cloud Enterprise (ECE) a plus .
• Experience with data ingest, Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) techniques preferable Logstash and Beats.
• Experience with multi-node clustering, architecture, development, implementation, and health monitoring of the indexes. Knowledge of hot/warm/cold data/index lifecycle management implementations.
• Knowledge of Elasticsearch Management.
• Knowledge of reindexing and data mappings.
• Knowledge of JSON and KQL searching syntax.
• Knowledge of Kibana dashboard options.
• Experience with automated configuration management tool and playbooks (Ansible, Chef, Puppet, SaltStack) and (Docker) containers, and GitHub.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure preferably AWS and Azure.
• Experience with NoSQL solutions: Lucene or SIEM (e.g. Splunk).
• Experience working in DevOps structured and Agile organizations.
• Excellent communication, and relationship skills to articulate advanced technical topics and build consensus among clients and technical stakeholders.
• Strong interpersonal and collaborations skills working in a team-oriented environment.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to adhere to defined processes & procedures, and suggest improvements.
• Ability to effectively prioritize and handle multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Strong technical documenting skills.
• Experience with Client Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) a plus.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with SAML authentication, familiarity with domain structures, user authentication, and PKI.
• Experience with Messaging Queues (e.g. RabbitMQ).
• Experience with Microsoft SQL.
• Experience with programming and working with regular expressions (XML, Java, JSON, Python, PowerShell, painless, grok).
• Relevant security certifications a plus: CISSP, CISM, CISA, Security+, CEH.
• Understanding of interrelationships between critical infrastructure protection and cybersecurity.
• Knowledge and experience with Assessment & Authorization (A&A) processes in Federal environments, preferably with experience utilizing the NIST Risk Management Framework (RMF).

Security/Clearance Requirements:

• Must be a US citizen (non-dual citizen) and with the ability to obtain and maintain Client Suitability/Entry on Duty (EOD).

Physical Requirements:

• Office work, typically sedentary with some movement around the office.

About Itero Group
Itero Group is a Woman-Owned Small Business focused on leveraging Agile Innovation to drive our client's mission to successful outcomes. Founded in 2017, our leadership offers over 60+ combined years helping clients transform into digitally enabled, data-driven organizations. We consider Agile frameworks, such as SAFe, Scrum and Kanban, to be industry best practices for software development; yet we also understand the benefits of an Agile culture. Transformation is the new normal; change in customer expectations, availability of data and enhanced operations are game changers for any organization. Not operating with modernized systems and processes makes it near impossible to execute a unified vision at increased speeds with lower risk.

Snapshot of Benefits: Health, Dental and Vision insurance; 401K Plan with a company match; Paid Time Off and Paid Holidays

Itero Group, LLC is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, age, sex, color, physical or mental disability, religion, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, or political affiliation.

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