We are seeking to hire an Elastic Engineer for an on-site role in Dulles, VA. Must have an Active Secret (S) clearance, be able to obtain a TS/SCI clearance, and DHS Suitability
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Epic Systems is supporting a U.S. Government customer on a large mission-critical development and sustainment program to design, integrate, build, deliver, and operate a network operations environment, including introducing new cyber capabilities to address emerging threats. Epic is seeking a Databricks Engineer to support the migration of customer applications, services, and platforms to a Medallion Model. This opportunity represents the cornerstone of the future of the organization.
Job Title: Elastic Engineer
Work Location: Dulles, VA (Onsite)
The Elastic Engineer will be a part of a team of Data Analytics Engineers enhancing, maintaining, and sustaining an Elastic, Logstash, and Kibana (ELK) instance with a heavy emphasis on data on-boarding, content development, configuration, troubleshooting, reporting, and visualizations. The candidate must possess prior Elastic engineering and administration experience, meet the necessary certification prerequisites, and work well in a distributed team environment.
The Duties and Responsibilities of this role include:
• Building data pipelines to ingest external datasets into Elastic products.
• Designing, building, deploying, maintaining, and enhancing the Elastic Logstash Kibana (ELK) platform.
• Installing and configuring ELK.
• Using Elastic search Indices, Elastic search APIs, Kibana Dashboards, Log Stash, and Beats.
• Using or creating plug-ins for ELK, like authentication and authorization plug-ins.
• Integrating ELK with enterprise tools and APIs, such as for authentication and authorization.
• Designing and implementing complex development use cases and scenarios using programming languages such as Python, Groovy, and Bash.
• Using Elastic Search Cluster Monitoring Tools.
Required skills:
• Active Secret (S) clearance. Must be able to obtain a TS/SCI clearance
• Must be able to obtain DHS Suitability
• 6+ years of directly relevant software development experience required.
• At least 2 years of experience as an Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK) admin or equivalent role.
• At least 2 years of experience with Elasticsearch Domain Specific Language (DSL).
• At least 5 years of experience with Kubernetes architecture.
• Strong knowledge of ELK stack.
• Knowledge of scripting languages, such as JavaScript, Python, Bash, etc.
Desired Skills:
• Experience working in an agile environment.
• Experience supporting federal customers.
Required Education:
• Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science or a related discipline is required.
Desired Certifications:
• DoD 8570.1-M Compliance at IAT Level I (e.g., Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)) certification highly desired
• Agile software development methodology certification (e.g. SCRUM Master) highly desired.
• Has achieved an Elastic certification, such as: Elastic Certified Engineer, Elastic Certified Analyst, or Elastic Certified Observable Engineer
• Has achieved a Kubernetes certification, such as: Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate (KCNA), Kubernetes and Cloud Native Security Associate (KCSA), Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD), Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), or Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS)
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