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JB060357 - Sr. SIEM Engineer (Elastic+Con Apply

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Company:  Accenture (supporting Army)
Role: Sr. SIEM Engineer (Elastic+Confluence)
Location: 5 days onsite in Ft. Belvoir, VA
Duration: Long Term Contract
Citizenship:  US Citizen (able to obtain Secret Clearance)
Rate: $80 an hour (some flex)
Top Requirements
Elastic
Confluence
Security+ or any IAT Level II Cert
SIEM experience
 
Responsibilities:
•    Design, deploy, configure, and maintain Elastic stack and Confluent deployments
•    Manage, patch, and upgrade Elasticsearch, Confluent, and other related systems
•    Tune and optimize Elastic stack deployments based on application/customer needs
•    Design and configure ETL data pipelines to ingest customer defined data sets such as application logs, metrics, and or threat events
•    Create custom visualizations and dashboards using Kibana
•    Configure and maintain index templates and information lifecycle management (ILM) policies
•    Develop Elastic alerting solutions using Watcher and/or Kibana Rules and Connectors with integrations to ticketing systems, email, and messaging apps as required
•    Develop Machine Learning (ML) jobs to dynamically monitor and alert on identified metrics, KPIs, and/or data anomalies
•    Follow ITIL based change management processes to move solutions from Dev to Test and into Production
•    Run the day-to-day operations of the security operations center
•    Investigate incidents and lead response efforts as applicable

Required Skills:
•    A Secret clearance will be required to maintain this position
•    Compliance with DoD 8140 / 8570 IAT Level II certification prior to start date
•    At least 5 years of hands-on experience in deployment, configuration, and solution development using the Elastic Stack for security and logging use-cases. Specific experience with Elastic SIEM is plus
•    Demonstrated experience with the full Elastic Stack - Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Beats, Machine Learning, and REST API integration
•    Experience integrating Elasticsearch with external systems (e.g. SOAR tools, Threat Intel Platforms)
•    Experience with data management: hot/warm/cold architectures, shard allocation/re-allocation, snapshots & restoration
•    Strong experience with evaluating existing Elastic clusters, configuration parameters, indexing, search and query performance tuning, security, and cluster administration
•    Experience integrating Elasticsearch with alternate authentication mechanisms such as SAML, LDAP, and PKI
•    Experience with supporting the Elastic Stack in on-prem and SaaS environments including system monitoring and tuning
•    Experience securing the Elastic stack and hardening hosting environments
•    Experience with the design and implement of highly scalable solutions using the Elastic Stack
•    Experience in developing data structures, data mapping from various sources to achieve data normalization using Elastic Common Schema
•    Experience developing Logstash and/or Elastic Ingest Pipelines
•    Experience developing custom visualizations and dashboards using Kibana, including creating specialized reporting solutions through Elasticsearch and Kibana APIs to meet complex stakeholder requirements
•    Experience in end-to-end Low-level design, development, administration, and delivery of Elasticsearch based reporting solutions
•    Strong technical foundation in building reliable, scalable, and supportable systems
•    Experienced in Red Hat Enterprise Linux deployment and administration
Desired Skills:
•    Experience using and developing Ansible playbooks for automation of system deployment and/or configuration
•    Experience with developing in multiple languages (Python, Bash, PowerShell, Painless, etc.).
•    Understanding of the MITRE ATT&CK framework
•    Certified Elastic Engineer or willingness to gain certification within 90 days of hire
•    Experience with cloud environments (e.g., Azure, AWS, GCP, etc.) and cloud security architecture
•    Experience condensing large environments to a single pane of glass view to facilitate optimal operational efficiency
•    Experience leading incident response and forensic investigative initiatives
•    Demonstrated ability to create and present executive level briefings
•    Experience with Army policies, regulations, and processes preferred