Cyber Security Specialist

6 days ago


Ashburn, Virginia, United States Leidos Full time
Job Overview

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Security Operations Center (SOC) is seeking a talented Cyber Security Specialist to join our team.

Job Summary

We are looking for an experienced professional with expertise in the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, and Beats) to develop, manage, and support scalable search and analytics solutions. The ideal candidate will be part of the Enterprise Logging Solution Team, responsible for maintaining CBP's Elastic instances with a focus on data on-boarding, content development, configuration, troubleshooting, reporting, and visualizations.

Key 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.
Requirements
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Cyber Security, or related field and 4 to 8 years of related experience.
  • 3+ years of Elasticsearch stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Beats, Kibana) experience in active production environments.
  • Experience with data ingest, Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) techniques.
  • Experience with multi-node clustering, architecture, development, implementation, and health monitoring of indexes.
  • Advanced understanding of Elasticsearch Management, reindexing, and data mappings, JSON and KQL searching syntax, and Kibana dashboard options.
  • Experience working with various versions of Java.
  • Experienced Linux administrator with strong bash scripting ability.
  • Proficient with managing AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service.
  • Experience troubleshooting, tuning, and configuring Elasticsearch clusters, nodes, shards, and analyzers from the ground up.
  • Experience configuring and managing Elastic CDM Dashboard/XML.
  • Proficient with Ansible Ad-hoc commands and creating/editing playbooks for automation.
  • Experience designing, documenting, implementing, securing, and maintaining Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana (ELK Stack) Enterprise solutions.
  • Excellent problem-solving skills with the ability to troubleshoot and resolve complex issues in a timely manner.
  • Familiarity with management, operational, and technical aspects of IT Security in a complex enterprise environment.
Salary Range

The estimated salary range for this position is $120,000 - $180,000 per year, depending on experience and qualifications.



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