Secret Cleared Elastic Engineer

Our client, a leading software development company, is looking for a Secret Cleared Elastic Engineer for an initial 7 month contract position, located in O’Fallon, Illinois. The consultant will be working onsite, 5 days a week. They will be supporting a Splunk migration to Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes, including new cluster installation; Potential integration with Cribl; ECK deployment and configuration; Monitoring of the ECK environment; Dashboard creation and platform observability. They will help deploy Elastic on Kubernetes (ECK) to build a new SIEM platform.

• Active DoD Secret Level Clearance
• Experience with Splunk migrations to Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes
• Experience with new cluster installation and management
• Experience with integrations with Cribl
• Experience with ECK deployment, configuration, and monitoring
• Experience with data ingestion
• Experience with dashboard creation and platform observability
• Experience with infrastructure and deployment activities
• Experience with GitOps methodologies using Flux, managing container registries (Artifactory), and implementing Infrastructure as Code via Terraform
• AWS networking (Transit Gateways, F5, Palo Alto) and the ability to configure data pipelines ( Logstash ) to meet government compliance requirements like data forking to S3
• Must be able to be onsite in O’Fallon, Illinois

We offer excellent benefits and compensation packages. The expected hourly rate range for this role is: $105.75.00 - $152.75 per hour. The posted range is an estimate, the actual compensation offer will be based on the candidate’s experience, skills, qualifications and will be in line with internal equity.