Cyber Security Incident and Event Management/Elastic Specialist

US CITIZEN ONLY. SECRET CLEARANCE REQUIRED.  MUST HAVE IT-II CERT (IE SECURITY+)

SIEM/Elastic Specialist will:

    • Be responsible for designing & setting up the ingestion of various customer data flows to include pre-processing data into a useable format, ensuring proper parsing and indexing
    • Collaborate with cross-functional teams and responsible for designing & integrating Elastic with a wide variety of data sources and developing associated knowledge objects such as queries, dashboards, reports, alerts for monitoring and analytics
    • Perform data transformation using Elastic query language 
    • Track the health of the Elastic environment and optimize its performance. Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to security, performance, data indexing, and searches
    • Perform watch-officer monitoring duties, including:
        ○ monitoring, detecting, investigating, and responding to cybersecurity threats and events using Elastic /SIEM Platform
        ○ Reviewing correlated alerts and logs for compromise scenarios
        ○ Performing triage of security alerts to prioritize response
        ○ Identifying false positives
        ○ Investigating security incidents and determining root cause
        ○ Collecting and preserving logs for analysis
        ○ Escalating confirmed incidents to leadership or SOC teams
        ○ Coordinating with IT or DevOps for containment and remediation
        ○ Creating after-action reports (AAR) post-incident
    • In addition, the role may include assistance with monitoring Vulnerability Management tools, such as ACAS and ePO.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Have at least three years of working knowledge and hands-on experience with Elastic/Splunk query languages, monitoring SIEM dashboards and real-time alerts, fine-tuning SIEM rules to reduce noise, and NIST 800-53 & DevSecOps frameworks