Elastic Engineer
$86,900–$198,000 year
Hybrid · Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
Job Summary
Elastic Engineer role focused on building and maintaining a high-performing system that uses the Elastic Stack to aggregate logs across systems into a single schema. Responsibilities include creating ECS-formatted logs, developing quality Kibana visualizations and dashboards, building log pipelines, and generating alerts for threat hunting. Collaborate with vendors to determine deployment and maintenance best practices within designated security requirements, and support compliance with standards such as NIST 800-53, FIPS, STIG, and FedRAMP. Requires hands-on experience with Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Logstash plugins, grok patterns, and TLS/mTLS/PKI knowledge; preferred experience with Docker/Kubernetes and other ecosystem tools. Note: Security clearance (Secret) is required for eligibility; compensation range is $86,900 to $198,000 annually. Remote work policies allow remote and occasional in-person/hybrid work as described in the posting.
Required Qualifications
- Experience with Elastic Stack, such as Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana tools, including installing, configuring, maintaining, upgrading, and troubleshooting these products
- Experience building high-quality Kibana visualizations and dashboards
- Experience with log pipelines and interpreting logs to determine information, including converting raw logs into ECS formatted documents
- Experience with Logstash plugins, filters, regular expressions, and grok patterns
- Knowledge of cryptography protocols and standards, including TLS, mTLS, hashing algorithms, and Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)
- Knowledge of federal compliance standards, including NIST 800-53, FIPS, STIG, and FedRAMP
- Secret clearance HS diploma or GED
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