Our Partner provides technically advanced full-spectrum cyber, data operations, systems integration and intelligence mission support services to meet their customers’ most demanding challenges. Their capabilities include cyber space operations, cyber defense and resiliency, vulnerability research, ubiquitous technical surveillance, data intelligence, lifecycle mission enablement, and software modernization. Our Partner brings disruptive technologies, agility, and competitive offerings to customers in the intelligence community, defense, civil, and commercial markets.

The Elastic Engineer will be a part of a team of Data Analytic 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. 

Responsibilities

• Build data pipelines to ingest external datasets into Elastic products
• Design, build, deploy, maintain, and enhance the Elastic Logstash Kibana (ELK) platform
• Install and configure ELK
• Use Elastic search Indices, Elastic search APIs, Kibana Dashboards, Log Stash and Beats
• Use or create plug-ins for ELK like authentication and authorization plug-ins
• Integrate ELK with enterprise tools and APIs, such as for authentication and authorization
• Design and implement complex development use cases and scenarios using programming language, such as Python, Groovy, and Bash
• Use Elastic Search Cluster Monitoring Tools

Requirements

• U.S. Citizenship
• Active Secret Clearance. Must be able to obtain a TS/SCI Clearance.
• Must be able to obtain DHS Suitability
• Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science or a related discipline 
• 8+ years of directly relevant software development experience 
• At least 2 years of experience as an Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK) admin or equivalent role
• At least 5 years of experience with Kubernetes architecture.
• At least 2 years of experience with Elasticsearch Domain Specific Language (DSL)
• 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
• 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)

About Us
For more than 20 years, NewGen Technologies has solved our clients’ toughest IT challenges with integrity, security, and outstanding service by delivering both technology and talent. We have helped secure borders, have used artificial intelligence (AI) to fight terror, aided the identification of criminals, and have helped to prevent crime through the introduction of biometrics. Our team of Highly Cleared Specialists have hard-to-find skills and expertise in a wide spectrum of technologies to provide solutions that transform business processes and solve problems of national significance. #CJ