Elastic SIEM Engineer

ASRC Federal Broadleaf Division is hiring for a Cybersecurity Engineer (SIEM) to support the DCSA in Hanover, MD. These positions have been approved for a hybrid work schedule (1 day per week on-site)  Position Description:  This is a technical, hands-on role responsible for the successful operation of a variety of cybersecurity tools, logging framework, and cybersecurity infrastructure • Design, develop, and maintain custom dashboards using Elastic stack for monitoring and visualization of system metrics, logs, and traces.• Monitor and optimize the performance of Elastic Stack clusters to ensure high availability, reliability, and performance.• Work with data sources and ETL processes to integrate and normalize data into Elasticsearch, ensuring data quality and consistency.• Implement and maintain security best practices for Elastic Stack, including access controls, encryption, and compliance with regulatory standards.• Contributions to infrastructure, data pipeline, analytics dashboards, and other resources will be delivered to threat analysts for consumption • Facilitate data ingestion of logs including Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) functions to develop dashboards, visualization, and alerting • Create Standard Operation Procedures (SOPs) and perform index administration, maintenance and optimization • Develop daily and weekly PowerPoint presentations to brief management and the team • Ability to analyze security vulnerability reports and develop/implement a plan to Recognizes and seizes opportunities to improve products, services or approaches • Design, document, build, secure, and maintain Elastic Stack solutions deployed in the Cloud or on-premises • Engagement with avenues of influence (Splunk product managers, user groups) to align platform capabilities with business requirements.   Minimum Qualifications:  At least five (5) years of experience in information technology or security engineering and three (3) years of direct Elastic administration experience  Minimum Secret with ability to obtain and maintain Top Security/SCI clearance  Bachelor's degree in Information Security or related field and/or equivalent combination of experience.  DoD 8140/8570 IAT Level II/III certifications required    Required Skills:  At least five (5) years of experience in information technology or security engineering and three (3) years of direct Elastic administration experience  Experience with developing automated capabilities for securing environments.  Experience with STIG compliance and vulnerability management  Knowledge of JFQ DoDIN DoD 8510.01 RMF IA Controls (IACs) and implementation.  Requires an extensive knowledge of application or infrastructure systems architecture, usually having experience with multiple system technologies  Ability to mitigate critical vulnerabilities.    Desired Skills:  Swimlane – Integration   DevSecOps experience  Cloud certifications and experience (AWS, Azure)   Certification (s):  DoD 8140/8570 IAT Level II/III certifications required  One or more certifications:  GIAC Certified Detection Analyst (GCDA)  CompTIA Cybersecurity Analyst (CySA )  Elastic Certified Engineer  Elastic Certified Analyst  Elastic Certified Observability Engineer  Certified SOC Analyst (EC-CSA)    This position is offering a pay range of $95,969 - $157,000 depending on experience, seniority, geographic locations, and factors permitted by law.

Salary : $95,969 - $157,000