Job Description

Position: Senior Elastic Engineer
Location: Remote
Duration: 6+ months contract

Job Description: Senior Elastic Engineer to support enterprise observability modernization and migration initiatives within a federal healthcare environment supporting the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

The Senior Elastic Engineer serves as a subject matter expert for the design, implementation, and optimization of the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Beats) in support of Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) enterprise networks and cybersecurity operations. This role is critical for establishing robust log aggregation, data analytics, and real-time dashboarding to enhance situational awareness, threat hunting capabilities, and overall cybersecurity posture across VA information systems.

Required Skills:

• Minimum 7 years of experience supporting enterprise logging, SIEM, observability, or cybersecurity engineering platforms
• Minimum 5 years of hands-on Elastic Stack engineering experience
• Develop and maintain Logstash pipelines and Beats configurations to efficiently route and process high-volume network, security, and application data
• Monitor cluster health and optimize indices, shards, and queries for maximum performance and cost-effectiveness
• Implement and maintain Elastic Security features (e.g., Role-Based Access Control, TLS encryption) ensuring compliance with VA Handbook 6500 and federal security standards
• Analyze operational impacts associated with cybersecurity events, system changes, and platform performance issues with the ability to apply cybersecurity and privacy principles to organizational requirements
• Develop and optimize ingestion pipelines, parsers, enrichment workflows, and telemetry normalization strategies
• Architect, engineer, and deploy highly available and scalable Elasticsearch clusters across VA enclaves and cloud environments.
• Troubleshoot ingestion failures, performance bottlenecks, and observability platform issues
• Support Authority to Operate (ATO), Risk Management Framework (RMF), compliance validation, and continuous monitoring activities
• Develop technical documentation, operational procedures, and knowledge transfer materials
• Provide Tier 3 troubleshooting and act as a technical mentor for junior engineers

Desired Skills:

• Experience supporting large-scale data ingestion, telemetry normalization, and analytics platforms
• Experience in incident handling methodologies (applied to logs in Elasticsearch)
• Experience with Linux administration, scripting, automation, and cloud-native deployments
• Experience with AWS GovCloud, Azure Government, Kubernetes, or containerized environments preferred
• Familiarity with MITRE ATT&CK, SIEM operations, and cybersecurity monitoring concepts
• Knowledge of network security architecture and protocols, cybersecurity and privacy principles and organizational requirements
• Knowledge of software engineering and development methodologies
• Excellent written, presentation, and stakeholder engagement skills
• Ability to support 10-15% travel

Educational Requirements:

• 7+ years of experience with a Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Engineering or Computer Science, and/or 10+ years of equivalent experience
• One or more related certifications preferred: Elastic Certified Engineer or Elastic Certified Observability Engineer
• AWS Certified Security or Microsoft Azure Security Engineer
• Security+ or CSSIP
• Equivalent cybersecurity or cloud certificates

Thanks & Regards

OpenKyber

For applications and inquiries, contact: hirings@openkyber.com

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