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Criterion Systems Inc Elasticsearch (ELK) Data Engineer in Washington, District Of Columbia

We are seeking a mission-focused Senior ELK Data Engineer to support and contribute to our government customers success remotely!

The objective of this task order (TO) is to provide technical and program support services for the installation, maintenance, support, operations, and continuity transition process of an Elastic Search, Logstash, and Kibana (ELK) cloud-based solution for the DOT Enterprise Logging System.

The Cybersecurity and Information Assurance has four primary functional areas, Cyber Operations Services, Oversight and Compliance, including Security Assessments, Policy, Planning and Training, and Risk Management. Each service area mandates specific knowledge, skills and technical expertise.

Support and assist in Cybersecurity and Information Protection Division (S83) Program to establish, implement and maintain technology and capabilities to ensure the effective management of Federal information technology resources. Cybersecurity and information technology engineering tasks following the systems engineering process,formally known as, the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) to fully deliver and maintain an operational ELK solution.

Evaluate the delivered ELK solution as a system against the Federal initiatives, evolving threats, cybersecurity industry best practices, compliance information (e.g. Executive Orders, Binding Operating Directives, NIST special publications, DOT processes for supporting authority to operate (ATO) decision, ensuring compliance with cybersecurity control requirements (including applicable documentation), on-going recommendations for the mitigation of all threats and measurement of risk affecting the DOT environment.

Cybersecurity Engineering Support (Development):

  • Expert services to install and manage Elasticsearch clusters in cloud environments,
  • Support development and capacity planning for searching and analyzing indexed data.
  • Implement secure data transport between the DOT Enterprise Logging System or other identified systems or components to include on premises and cloud hosted.
  • Will present change proposals, as needed, for implementation and updates to internal change management or the DOT Change Control Board
  • Engage with the shared services organization for network configuration, cloud services provisioning, authentication services, and certificate services.

Cybersecurity Engineering Support (Observability):

  • Provide expert services to implement observability, from ingesting metrics, logs, Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and uptime data to a single data source
  • Develop analysis and automation reacting to events using Kibana, machine learning, and alerting.
  • Integrate multiple Indicators of Compromise (IOC) threat sources to develop correlation and automated notification to the DOT SOC that includes relevant artifacts.
  • Provide expert services to use Kibana for both data visualization and analysis.
  • Provide dashboards to analyzing time-series data to developing machine learning jobs.
  • Provide dashboards using unique data sets from system logs, vulnerability assessment data, and other endpoint information sources.

Cybersecurity Engineering Support (Analysis):

  • Expert services to use Kibana for both data visualization and analysis.
  • Provide dashboards to analyzing time-series data to developing machine learning jobs.
  • Dashboards using unique data sets from system logs, vulnerability assessment data, and other endpoint information sources; product should display minimal errors in data and visualizations
  • Document methods of data collections, reporting applications sources, and processes using plain language, graphs, charts and other means for communications.

Required Experience, Education, Skills and Technologies

  • Bachelor's degree with 10 years of relevant experience with 3-4 years Elastic Stack (ELK) expertise
  • Experience reconfiguring and weaking of the system to either fix broken data streams or setup new ones.
  • Expert level knowledge of data ingestion
  • Understanding of IT governance and management in the federal sector
  • Understanding of information assurance, cybersecurity, privacy policies disciplines, methodologies including but not limited to National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Risk Management Framework (RMF), NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF)
  • Understand the Federal Government's deployment of Information Security Continuous Monitoring (ISCM), the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) Program, organizational phases and technologies.
  • Understanding of information assurance, cyber security, privacy policies disciplines, methodologies such as Cyber Security and Risk Management Framework(s), Federal compliance standards such as National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) 800-53, Federal Implementation Processing Standard (FIPS).
  • Ability to work with customers to assess needs, provide assistance, resolve problems, satisfy expectations; knows products and services.
  • Understanding of the principles, methods, or tools for developing, scheduling, coordinating, and managing projects and resources, including monitoring work, and performance.
  • Understanding of the principles, methods, and tools of quality assurance and quality control used to ensure a product fulfills functional requirements and standards.
  • Proficient in Microsoft Office products: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Teams, Power BI, Tableau, and SharePoint.

In addition to the expertise above, the Cybersecurity SME must meet the following qualification(s):

  • Proficient in Elastic to supportData Management, Searching Data, Develop Search Applications, Data Processing and Cluster Management.
  • Proficient in Elastic to support uptime, metrics, logging, application performance monitoring (APM), structuring and processing data and working with observability data.
  • Proficient in Elastic to support searching data, visualizing data and analyzing data

Security Clearance Level

  • Ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance

Certification

  • Elastic Certification required (Elastic Certified Engineer, Elastic Observability Engineer OR Elastic Certified Analyst) or the ability to obtain it once hired

Work Schedule

  • Ability to support work remotely

Benefits Offered

  • Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability, 401(k) match, Tuition/Training Assistance, Parental Leave, Paid Time Off, and Holidays.

Criterion Systems, LLC and its subsidiaries are committed to equal employment opportunity and non-discrimination at all levels of our organization.We believe in treating all applicants and employees fairly and make employment decisions without regard to any individuals protected status: race, ethnicity, color, national origin, ancestry, religion, creed, sex/gender, gender identity/gender expression, sexual orientation, physical and mental disability, marital/parental status, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation, and related medical conditions), age, genetic information (including characteristics and testing), military and veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. For our complete EEO/AA and Pay Transparency statement, please visit

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