Elastic Cloud Security Engineer
Precision Solutions3 days ago
Lexington, MA, USASenior
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, integrate, and maintain systems and tools that automate complex cyber activities.
- Administer Elastic Stack components, including Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, Beats, and Fleet.
- Manage Elasticsearch index lifecycle policies, index templates, and data streams at scale.
- Build Kibana dashboards, visualizations, and Lens-based analytics for security operations.
- Configure Elastic Security detection rules, alerts, and case-management workflows.
- Design log-ingestion pipelines with parsing, enrichment, and normalization across network, endpoint, identity, and cloud sources.
- Map non-standard log sources into Elastic Common Schema-compliant fields.
- Optimize log collection from AWS, endpoints, and network devices.
- Apply AI/ML concepts to security analytics, including anomaly detection, behavioral baselining, and threat scoring.
- Work in government cybersecurity environments such as SOC and SIEM operations.
- Mentor or supervise employees in company and technical competencies.
Requirements
- Five or more years of experience administering Elastic Stack.
- Experience with Elasticsearch index lifecycle policies, index templates, data streams, Kibana dashboards, visualizations, and Lens-based analytics.
- Experience with Elastic Security detection rules, alerts, and case-management workflows.
- Experience designing log-ingestion pipelines and using Elastic Common Schema.
- Experience in government cybersecurity environments such as SOC, SIEM operations, or defensive cyber.
- Experience optimizing AWS, endpoint, and network-device log collection.
- Knowledge of AI/ML concepts applied to security analytics.
- U.S. citizenship and the ability to obtain a Secret clearance.
- Bachelor's degree.
- Preferred: experience with DoD clients, Elastic ML jobs, UEBA, rare process detection, anomalous login detection, Elastic AI Assistant, LLM integrations, Python, scikit-learn, PyTorch, Elastic Agent fleet management, cross-domain data flows, multi-classification environments, ES|QL, EQL, and Kubernetes certifications.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement in Lexington, Massachusetts, with on-site work two or three days per week.
- The role requires U.S. citizenship and the ability to obtain a Secret clearance.
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About Precision Solutions
Precision Solutions provides IT services, managed services, and staff augmentation for government and defense-related clients, including Fortune 100 defense contractors. The company delivers support ranging from audiovisual/VTC systems engineering (e.g., Crestron programming) to technical support and recruiting for cleared roles. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Leesburg, Virginia, it operates as a privately held government contractor serving federal and specialized commercial markets.