Senior Elastic Stack Data Integration Engineer designing and maintaining data ingestion pipelines for Missile Defense Agency. Focused on building resilient and scalable Logstash architectures.
About the role
- Senior Security Integration Engineer supporting Missile Defense Agency through Elastic Stack integration and optimization of security data. Leading customer engagements and technical discussions while mentoring junior team members.
Responsibilities
- Support the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) on the Integrated Research and Development for Enterprise Solutions (IRES) contract.
- Serve as a customer-facing technical lead responsible for onboarding, integrating, and optimizing security data sources into the Elastic Security Platform.
- Collaborate with customer technical teams to map their environment, plan ingestion strategies, update network and data flow diagrams, validate logging pipelines, and ensure successful end-to-end SIEM integration.
- Conduct assessments of customer environments and identify required logging, telemetry, and network visibility gaps.
- Translate customer operational requirements into ingestion roadmaps and technical implementation plans.
- Develop, maintain, and version-control network diagrams, data flow diagrams, and SIEM onboarding documentation.
- Monitor ingestion health and coordinate issue resolution with customers and internal teams.
- Ensure adherence to security policies, logging standards, and architectural governance.
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to junior engineers working on data ingestion and SIEM onboarding tasks.
Requirements
- Must have 10, or more, years of general (full-time) work experience
- Must have 5, or more, years of experience in cybersecurity engineering, systems integration, or SIEM operations
- Must have 2, or more, years of experience working in a management or leadership role, mentoring and guiding other team members
- Must have a strong understanding of enterprise networks, including routing, switching, VPNs, firewalls, and network security tools.
- Must have experience with data ingestion, processing, and enrichment techniques.
- Must be able to build and maintain network and data flow diagrams (e.g., Visio, Lucidchart, Draw.io).
- Must be proficient in Linux systems, command-line tools, and system administration fundamentals.
- Must have experience working directly with customers in a technical consulting or engineering capacity.
- Must have a DoD 8570.01-M IAT Level II certification with Continuing Education (CE) - (CCNA-Security, CySA+, GICSP, GSEC, Security+ CE, CND, SSCP)
- Must have an active DoD Secret Security Clearance
- Must be able to obtain an active DoD Top Secret Security Clearance
Benefits
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- Paid time off and holidays
- Retirement benefits (including 401(k) matching)
- Educational reimbursement
- Parental leave
- Employee stock purchase plan
- Tax-saving options
- Disability and life insurance
- Pet insurance
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