What are the responsibilities and job description for the ELASTIC STACK SECURITY ENGINEER position at Reston Consulting Group Inc?
RCG is a growing federal contracting company and Certified as a Great Place to Work®. We are looking for strongly qualified people to help support our clients. We are currently seeking an Elastic Stack Security Engineer as part of an ongoing contract in Washington, DC. This is a full-time, remote role.
Please note: Due to the secure nature of this government agency, all candidates must be a U.S. citizen or Permanent Resident and be eligible for a Public Trust clearance.
The successful candidate will receive a contingent offer based on the outcome of a government background check. This may take several weeks, and the candidate cannot begin actual employment until the background check is successfully completed.
The ELK Stack Engineer:
Responsibilities:
- Strong knowledge of ELK stack
- Strong knowledge of ServiceNow
- Experience in JavaScript and HTML
- Designing, building, deploying, maintaining, and enhancing ELK platform
- Installing and configuring ELK on VMware, Open Stack
- Using Elastic search Indices, Elastic search APIs, Kibana Dashboards, Log stash and Log Beats
- Using or creating plug-ins for ELK like authentication and authorization plug-ins
- Enhancing Open-source ELK for custom capabilities
- Integrating ELK with enterprise tools and APIs, such as for authentication and authorization
- Capacity planning of Elastic Search Cluster
- Designing and implementing complex development use cases and scenarios using programming language such as Python, Java, and Go, Lang.
- Using Elastic Search Cluster Monitoring Tools (Marvel)
- Knowledge of scripting languages like JavaScript, Python, PowerShell, etc.
Supervisory Responsibilities:
- Coordinates, supervises, and/or manages support personnel.
Qualifications include:
- Bachelors degree in computer science, Information Technology, or other related discipline, or 5 years of related experience and or training.
- Security Experience
- Experience with hands-on development, configuration, deployment, integration, or maintenance of systems using technologies that include Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, Beats, Kafka, or Splunk
- Experience as an Elastic Engineer
- Experience with CyberArk engineering
- Knowledge of planning and executing data retention and life cycle management plan
- Experience with Linux configuration and administration
- Demonstrated understanding of federal government agency support
- Must have to ability to communicate fluently in the English language, both verbally and in writing
Physical Demands: The physical demands described here represent those that an employee must meet to perform the essential functions of this job successfully. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these functions.
Work Environment characteristics described here represent those that an employee must bear to perform the essential functions of this job successfully. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.
The job is performed in an office setting, with exposure to computer screens, and requires extensive use of a computer, keyboard, mouse, and multi-line telephone system
RCG, Inc. does not discriminate against qualified individuals based on their status as protected veterans or individuals with disabilities and prohibits discrimination against all individuals based on their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation/gender identity, or national origin.
