Data Engineer with DoD Secret Clearance
Watershed Security is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Data Engineer & Application Support Specialist to join our team supporting the Commander, Navy Installations Command (CNIC) N6 Public Safety Systems (PSS) program. You'll be key in ensuring designs are ready for transition, managing the technical aspects of that transition, and maintaining critical documentation and configuration control in support of the PSS mission.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, implement, and maintain ELK Stack deployments, including Elasticsearch clusters, Kibana dashboards, and data ingest pipelines using Logstash and NiFi.
- Develop and optimize Kibana dashboards and visualizations for security monitoring, operational insights, and threat hunting.
- Configure and manage alerting mechanisms within the ELK stack to provide real-time notification of security incidents and critical system events.
- Leverage Elastic Machine Learning capabilities to identify anomalies, detect threats, and enhance security posture.
- Design, implement, and maintain ELK Stack deployments, including Elasticsearch clusters, Kibana dashboards, and data ingest pipelines using Logstash and NiFi.
- Develop and optimize Kibana dashboards and visualizations for security monitoring, operational insights, and threat hunting.
- Configure and manage alerting mechanisms within the ELK stack to provide real-time notification of security incidents and critical system events.
- Leverage Elastic Machine Learning capabilities to identify anomalies, detect threats, and enhance security posture.
- Design, implement, and maintain ELK Stack deployments, including Elasticsearch clusters, Kibana dashboards, and data ingest pipelines using Logstash and NiFi.
- Develop and optimize Kibana dashboards and visualizations for security monitoring, operational insights, and threat hunting.
- Configure and manage alerting mechanisms within the ELK stack to provide real-time notification of security incidents and critical system events.
- Leverage Elastic Machine Learning capabilities to identify anomalies, detect threats, and enhance security posture.
- Design, implement, and maintain ELK Stack deployments, including Elasticsearch clusters, Kibana dashboards, and data ingest pipelines using Logstash and NiFi.
- Develop and optimize Kibana dashboards and visualizations for security monitoring, operational insights, and threat hunting.
- Configure and manage alerting mechanisms within the ELK stack to provide real-time notification of security incidents and critical system events.
- Leverage Elastic Machine Learning capabilities to identify anomalies, detect threats, and enhance security posture.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- 8+ years of highly relevant, progressive experience in the following areas:
- ELK Stack Expertise to include hands-on experience designing, implementing, and maintaining large-scale Elasticsearch clusters (including multi-node, distributed architectures), Kibana dashboards (advanced visualizations, custom plugins), and complex data ingest pipelines (Logstash, Beats, NiFi).
- Proven track record in configuring and managing alerting mechanisms (Watchers, Alerting APIs) and leveraging Elastic Machine Learning for anomaly detection and threat hunting.
- Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot and resolve complex ELK stack performance, data ingestion, and alerting issues independently.
- SIEM Solutions experience with the design, implementation, and optimization of Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solutions, with ELK as a primary focus.
- Data Engineering & Automation experience with data pipeline development and management using tools like Apache NiFi for efficient data collection, processing, transformation, and routing.
- Hands-on experience with automation tools, specifically Argo (Workflows/CD) or similar (e.g., Kubernetes, Ansible, Terraform) for CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and automated deployments of complex systems.
- Active DoD Secret clearance or higher
- Proficiency in scripting (e.g., Python, Bash, PowerShell) for automation, data manipulation, and system management.
- System Design & Transition experience contributing to and leading technical reviews, especially regarding SIEM design readiness and complex system transition strategies.
- Ability to perform in-depth software/engineering analysis on operational and system requirements, ensuring successful implementation and transition for critical systems.
- Direct experience managing and participating in transitions of critical services, products, and documentation to new contractors or teams.
- Relevant certifications (e.g., Certified Data Professional, AWS Certified Data Analytics - Specialty Safe certifications (e.g., SAFe Practitioner, SAFe Scrum Master).
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