Gray Tier Technologies

Elastic Engineer

Full-Time in Ashburn, VA %LABEL_POSITION_TYPE_REMOTE_WITHIN%

Gray Tier Technologies is seeking a talented and motivated Mid-Level Elastic Engineer to join our team. The ideal candidate will have experience working with Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, and Beats) to develop, manage, and support scalable search and analytics solutions. The candidate will be part of the Enterprise Logging Solution Team, responsible for maintaining CBP’s Elastic instances with a heavy emphasis on data onboarding, content development, configuration, troubleshooting, reporting, and visualizations. Prior experience with Splunk is a strong plus.

Primary Responsibilities:
• 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.
• Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for Elastic Stack configurations, processes, and procedures.
• Maintain Elasticsearch clusters in a cloud-based environment across multiple availability zones.

Required Education/Experience:

Bachelors’ degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Cyber Security, or related field and 4 to 8 years of related experience. Additional years of experience and cyber certifications may be considered in lieu of a degree.