Elastic Engineer

Who We Are

Jolera offers MSPs & IT solution providers next-generation managed services, enabling them to create world-class experiences for their clients. Your clients receive award-winning solutions built on over 20 years of experience servicing businesses worldwide.

We’ve helped transform hundreds of MSPs & solution providers worldwide! With our collection of tenured experts, we provide an elevated managed service experience for a variety of clients. At Jolera, we treat each MSP partner with specialized care and uniquely organize our products for your individual business needs.

Who You Are

We are seeking an energetic, passionate individual with strong communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively. You are a self-starter who thrives in an environment of personal accountability and enjoys being part of a challenging outcome orientated culture. You want to build your career by digging in being a part of a high-performance team where there is an opportunity to up your game, sharing your knowledge and working with some of the best in the business.

What You Will Do

You are passionate about Cybersecurity and have experience building and deploying distributed ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana) stacks. You will help develop, enhance, design, deploy, and maintain our cyber programs, data analytics, threat hunting, and machine learning modules.

• Be the primary subject matter expert for log ingestion/analysis.
• Develop ELK stacks as infrastructure as code.
• Implement Logstash configuration files, set up data pipelines for various log types such as Syslog.
• Design, access, and maintain data stores, feeds, and associated tools based on ELK to fully integrate environments with multiple data sources including third-party applications.
• Develop automation scripts to identify anomalies and visualize them in Kibana.
• Identify, design, and implement improvements such as automating manual processes, optimize delivery of data, and re-design infrastructure as required.
• Assist in the development of network intrusion analytics as part of a larger team.
• Configure and maintain Linux-based OS in support of ELK stack.
• Document the installation and configuration for production deployments.

Qualifications

• A bachelor’s degree in software development, computer science, or information technology or related field required.
• 2+ years of experience with Elastic Stack cluster architecture, design, and deployment.
• 3+ years’ experience with ELK for log ingestion and analysis in production environments. Must have designed and implemented an ELK solution including Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana.
• 2+ years’ experience with security monitoring activities; threat hunting, threat detection, and incident response.
• Ability to configure, maintain, and troubleshoot multiple Elastic environments at customer sites on-premises instances and cloud instances.
• Strong understanding of DevOps and Agile methodologies.
• Experienced with data ingestion, indexing in Elasticsearch.
• Deep knowledge of Linux distros including deployment, management, and security.
• Infrastructure as code experience, such as Terraform.
• AWS or Azure Certification (DevOps, Solutions Architect, etc.)
• Experience with containerized orchestration technologies like Kubernetes, Docker, Ansible, Jenkins, Chef, Puppet, etc.
• Scripting experience with Python, Bash, Java, PowerShell.
• Must be able to learn, understand, and apply new technologies.
• Working knowledge of networking fundamentals including DNS, VPN, VPC network interfaces.
• Understanding of security data and controls.
• Comfortable working on multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills; ability to work in a team environment.
• Ability to work independently with minimal direction; self-starter/self-motivated.
• Technical writing experience.
• Security Certifications: Security +, CISSP, SANS Certifications, Network +, OSCP are a plus.
• Experience with SIEM technologies such as Splunk ES, QRadar, McAfee, HP ArcSight and/or LogRhythm are a plus.