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Job#: 3025160
Job Description:
Elastic Security Engineer
Location: 100% REMOTE!
Employment Type: Permanent Direct Hire
SUMMARY
Serve as a senior member of the Cybersecurity Engineering team responsible for implementing and optimizing enterprise security monitoring and automation capabilities. Led the operational maturity of the organization's SIEM platform with a focus on Elasticsearch and security automation to improve threat detection, incident response, and visibility across enterprise infrastructure. Partnered with product, platform, DevOps, and security teams to integrate security telemetry, automate workflows, and strengthen the organization's overall cybersecurity posture.
Must-Haves:

• Elastic fundamentals - standing up the components and maintaining, data ingestion pipelines - grooming data and structuring
• Experience owning Elasticsearch OR any security tool with a strong aptitude to learn and get caught up to speed on new tools
• Someone who is a critical thinker, passionate about technology and will be a champion for the product

Additional Desired Experience:

• Elastic Engineer, security orchestration and automation
• API work, Automation with Python
• Linux environment
• Palo Alto

ESSENTIAL/PRIMARY DUTIES, FUNCTIONS, AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Implement, and maintain enterprise SIEM infrastructure, including Elasticsearch clusters, log pipelines, indexing strategies, and data ingestion from cloud, network, endpoint, and application sources.
• Develop and maintain SIEM detection content, including correlation rules, dashboards, threat detection use cases, and alerting frameworks to improve security monitoring and incident detection.
• Ensuring Elasticsearch scalability, high availability, performance optimization, and alignment with enterprise security initiatives.
• Built security automation workflows and scripts to streamline incident response, threat hunting, log enrichment, and security operations processes.
• Integrate SIEM/SOAR capabilities with security technologies including EDR, threat intelligence platforms, vulnerability scanners, identity systems, and network security tools to create a unified security monitoring ecosystem.
• Tune and optimized detection logic and log pipelines to reduce false positives and improve signal-to-noise ratio across security monitoring platforms.
• Collaborate with SOC analysts and incident response teams to investigate alerts, conduct forensic analysis, and identify root causes of security incidents.
• Ingest and operationalized threat intelligence feeds to enhance detection capabilities and proactively identify emerging threats.
• Implement monitoring and alerting frameworks to ensure health, performance, and availability of SIEM and Elasticsearch infrastructure.
• Analyze network, system, and application logs to identify security incidents, anomalies, and threat activity trends.
• Partner with cross-functional IT teams to integrate security telemetry from cloud platforms (Azure/AWS), Linux and Windows servers, networking systems, and enterprise applications.
• Develop automation workflows for operational security tasks, including vulnerability management, patch validation, and configuration monitoring.
• Support incident response planning and execution, leveraging SIEM analytics and automation to accelerate investigation and containment.
• Generate security metrics and reporting on incident trends, detection effectiveness, and operational KPIs for leadership and governance reporting.
• Assist with cybersecurity audits, vulnerability assessments, and penetration test remediation efforts.
• Contribute to the development and improvement of security architecture standards, policies, and governance frameworks.
• Evaluate emerging security technologies and recommend improvements to security monitoring, automation, and detection capabilities.
• Provide mentorship and guidance to junior security engineers and analysts while promoting security engineering best practices across teams.

TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE:

• SIEM Platforms: Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana), Azure Sentinel
• Automation & Scripting: Python, PowerShell, Bash, Ansible
• Security Technologies: EDR, CASB, SASE, SWG, ZTNA, DLP, IAM, PAM/PIM, WAF, IDS/IPS
• Infrastructure: Linux, Windows Server, Cloud (Azure/AWS/Google Cloud Platform), network security devices
• Logging & Data Processing: Syslog, log parsing, regex/grok pipelines, data normalization
• Security Domains: Threat detection, incident response, threat intelligence integration, log analytics, security automation

CERTIFICATIONS AND/OR LICENSES:

• Certified information systems security professional (CISSP) desired but not required.
• Additional certifications such as GIAC, CEH, or SIEM platform certifications are beneficial.

Work Environment
The duties of this role require the ability to stand, bend, stoop, sit, walk, twist, and turn. The role may occasionally require lifting up to 25 pounds and involves the use of a computer keyboard and calculator.
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