Elastic Consultant
Apex Systems · Montgomery, AL · 3 wk ago
ConsultingContract
Duration: 1 year | Preferred locations: Oklahoma City, OK; Ogden, UT; Mechanicsburg, PA; Montgomery, AL | Travel: 25% | US Citizenship and Secret Clearance required
About the role
Elastic Consultant responsible for Elastic Stack administration, dashboard development, detection engineering, data lifecycle management, integration, compliance support, and cross-team collaboration in production environments.
Responsibilities
- Design, deploy, configure, and maintain Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, and Beats platforms ensuring high availability, scalability, and operational stability.
- Develop operational, security, and executive dashboards in Kibana to provide actionable insights, metrics, trends, and compliance reporting.
- Create and tune correlation rules, detection content, and alert logic to minimize false positives and improve detection effectiveness.
- Implement index lifecycle management, retention schedules, archival strategies, and storage optimization to meet operational and compliance requirements.
- Develop scripts and automation workflows using Python, PowerShell, or Bash to automate onboarding, reporting, health monitoring, and operational tasks.
- Generate evidence, reports, dashboards, and security metrics supporting RMF controls, ATO activities, audits, and continuous monitoring requirements.
- Collaborate with Security, Network, Platform, Cloud, and Engineering teams to onboard new data sources, improve visibility, and support remediation activities.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance plans.
- Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP).
- 401K program with company match after 12 months of tenure.
- Health Savings Account (HSA) on the HDHP plan.
- SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions.
- Corporate discount savings program and other discounts.
- On-demand training program, access to certification prep, and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars after 6+ months of tenure.
- Certification discounts and perks for associations including CompTIA and IIBA.
- Dedicated customer service team and certified Career Coach for consultants.