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Elasticsearch Lead Engineer - SIEM Platform

Elasticsearch Lead Engineer - SIEM Platform

Vanguard Group, Inc.

Malvern, PA • On-site

$100K - $132K/yr

Full-time

Posted 10 days ago


Vanguard rating

8.7

Company rating: 8.7 out of 10

Based on 60 frontline employees who took The Breakroom Quiz

14th of 139 rated financial services


Job description

Global Risk and Security (GR&S) at Vanguard enables business strategy, protects client and Vanguard interests (e.g., assets and data), and stewards a strong risk culture. Our teams leverage enterprise-wide insights, deep expertise, and trusted advice so that across Vanguard leaders and crew drive faster, stronger, risk-informed decisions.
Within GR&S, the Enterprise Security and Fraud (ES&F) sub-division is responsible for the global protection of Vanguard crew, property, data, and client assets. We are the trusted advisors that protect the pride of Vanguard with state-of-the-art security and fraud capabilities. We are a world-class destination of highly engaged, passionate, and diverse talent expected to continuously learn and develop in an ever-changing security landscape.
Our crew are our greatest resource - by joining our team you will build collaborative long-term relationships and enjoy a suite of benefits that includes comprehensive health and wellness care, work-life balance, and an investment in your future at its core.
Elasticsearch Lead Engineer - SIEM Platform:
  • Architect and maintain high-availability Elasticsearch clusters supporting large-scale security event ingestion
  • Define and enforce Elastic Common Schema (ECS) field mappings across all data sources, ensuring consistent normalization for detection rules and analytics
  • Design and develop custom data ingestion pipelines using Elasticsearch
  • Integrate with AWS services including S3, Kinesis Data Streams, Lambda, and CloudWatch for log collection
  • Manage AWS infrastructure: EC2, S3, IAM, and Secrets Manager - using AWS CloudFormation
  • Implement data lifecycle management - hot/warm/cold/frozen tier strategies, ILM policies, and snapshot/restore to S3-based data lakes
  • Partner with Detection Engineering and Threat Intelligence teams to optimize index strategies, queries, and dashboards in Kibana
  • Establish and maintain cluster security controls: TLS/mTLS, role-based access control (RBAC), audit logging, and encryption at rest
  • Build resilient, fault-tolerant architectures: cross-cluster replication, shard allocation awareness, and disaster recovery runbooks
  • Perform activities related platform health monitoring and upgrade / patching
  • Troubleshoot and manage production technical issues related to Elasticsearch cloud
  • Define and enforce SLOs for ingestion latency, query performance, and cluster availability
  • Mentor junior engineers and establish best practices, runbooks, and architectural standards

Qualifications
  • Minimum of six years related work experience.
  • Undergraduate degree in a related field or the equivalent combination of training and experience.
  • 6+ years of Elasticsearch / Elastic Stack (ELK) experience in a production security or observability environment
  • Deep understanding of Elastic Common Schema (ECS) and experience mapping diverse log sources (Windows, Linux, network, cloud, EDR) to ECS
  • Hands-on experience operating Elasticsearch at scale (10TB+/day ingest, 100+ node clusters)
  • Proficiency with AWS - Kinesis, S3, IAM, CloudTrail, and AWS-native log sources
  • Experience with data streaming platforms - Apache Kafka, or Confluent Platform - for high-throughput event ingestion
  • Experience integrating with data lake platforms - AWS S3 / Lake Formation, Data Lake, or Apache Iceberg for long-term retention and threat hunting
  • Strong understanding of security principles: least privilege, network segmentation, secrets management, audit logging
  • Experience building resilient systems: replication topologies, capacity planning, chaos engineering mindset, and documented DR procedures
  • Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Ansible, or CDK) (Optional)

Preferred Qualifications
  • Elastic Certified Engineer or Elastic Certified Analyst certification
  • Experience with Elastic Security / SIEM detection rules, ML jobs, and Timeline investigations
  • Familiarity with MITRE ATT&CK framework and how it informs index and detection design
  • Experience with container-based deployments of Elastic (ECK / Kubernetes)
  • Knowledge of compliance frameworks: SOC 2, PCI-DSS, HIPAA, or FedRAMP

Special Factors
Sponsorship
Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.
About Vanguard
At Vanguard, we don't just have a mission-we're on a mission.
To work for the long-term financial wellbeing of our clients. To lead through product and services that transform our clients' lives. To learn and develop our skills as individuals and as a team. From Malvern to Melbourne, our mission drives us forward and inspires us to be our best.
How We Work
Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for the majority of our crew members, designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in-person learning, collaboration, and connection. We believe our mission-driven and highly collaborative culture is a critical enabler to support long-term client outcomes and enrich the employee experience.

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