Elastic Engineer

About this role

GuidePoint Security seeks an Elastic Engineer to join its Data Analytics team supporting federal cybersecurity initiatives. You'll design and implement data collection pipelines, manage Elasticsearch infrastructure, and transform raw security data into actionable intelligence for government agencies.

What you'll do

• Provide data analytics expertise for cybersecurity applications, collecting and analyzing enterprise data sources to transform into common schemas
• Design and develop Elastic Beats and Logstash configurations for efficient data collection and event transformation
• Support technical design, documentation, testing, and bug resolution for data analytics systems
• Translate data into actionable insights through intelligent analytics and reporting for decision-making
• Establish and implement Data Governance Workflows covering metadata, data sources, quality, policies, and procedures
• Build and maintain Cybersecurity Data Catalog consolidating metadata, data management, and search tools

What they're looking for

• Elasticsearch and Elastic Stack administration
• Linux scripting (Bash, Python, Java) with 5+ years experience
• AWS instance building, monitoring, and troubleshooting
• RHEL/CentOS Linux COTS application installation and administration
• Ansible Automation or similar configuration management tools
• Data schema design and event transformation
• Kibana dashboarding and data visualization
• DevOps practices