INNOVIM ยท 16 hours ago
Senior Elastic Stack Data Integration Engineer - DOD
Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$130K/yr - $150K/yr
5+ years expINNOVIM is seeking a Senior Elastic Stack Data Integration Engineer to support the Missile Defense Agency on the Integrated Research and Development for Enterprise Solutions contract. The role involves designing, building, and maintaining data ingestion pipelines supporting Elastic SIEM, ensuring reliable delivery of high-fidelity data to Elasticsearch.
Information Technology
No H1B
Security Clearance RequiredU.S. Citizen Only
Responsibilities
Serve as the primary technical authority for designing, building, and maintaining data ingestion pipelines supporting Elastic SIEM
Focus on creating scalable, resilient Logstash architectures
Develop advanced pipeline logic
Normalize, enrich, and transform security telemetry
Ensure reliable delivery of high-fidelity data to Elasticsearch
Architect, build, and maintain Logstash pipelines to ingest and transform logs from diverse systems, including network devices, servers, cloud services, and security platforms
Implement parsing, grok patterns, JSON transformations, conditional routing, enrichment logic, and ECS mapping
Optimize pipeline performance, resiliency, and scalability (e.g., persistent queues, pipeline workers, memory tuning, load balancing)
Ensure all ingested data aligns to ECS (Elastic Common Schema) or internal schema requirements
Implement data enrichment workflows (GeoIP, threat intel lookups, metadata injection)
Validate data completeness, integrity, and fidelity across ingestion flows
Maintain and optimize Logstash clusters, including version management, scaling, tuning, and high-availability configurations
Manage integrations with Beats, Elastic Agent, Kafka, syslog endpoints, and custom data collectors
Monitor ingestion throughput, latency, and error rates; implement proactive alerting and troubleshooting processes
Create and maintain technical documentation, including pipeline diagrams, data flow maps, runbooks, and schema references
Establish enterprise standards for parsing, enrichment, normalization, and ingestion patterns
Support internal and external audits by documenting data handling flows and pipeline logic
Work closely with SIEM integration engineers to align pipelines with customer environments and logging requirements
Partner with detection engineering teams to ensure data supports analytic coverage and rule development
Collaborate with infrastructure and platform operations for deployment, scaling, and reliability engineering
Qualification
Required
Must have 5, or more, years of experience in log ingestion, data engineering, or SIEM pipeline development
Must have 2, or more, years of experience working in a management or leadership role, mentoring and guiding other team members
Must have a strong background in Elastic Stack components (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, Elastic Agent)
Must have experience with data ingestion, processing, and enrichment techniques
Must be proficient with Linux administration, system-level debugging, and CLI-based operations
Must have a DoD 8570.01-M IAT Level II certification with Continuing Education (CE) - (CCNA-Security, CySA+, GICSP, GSEC, Security+ CE, CND, SSCP)
Must have an active DoD Secret Security Clearance
Must be able to obtain an active DoD Top Secret Security Clearance
Preferred
Be an Elastic Certified Engineer or have relevant Elastic Stack certifications
Have strong experience integrating Kafka, Redis, or other message bus technologies into ingestion workflows
Be proficient with scripting in Python, Bash, or PowerShell for automation and data validation
Have experience designing geo-distributed or multi-cluster ingestion architectures
Have knowledge of threat intelligence ingestion, correlation data enrichment, and advanced ECS mapping
Have experience with CI/CD pipelines, GitOps workflows, or Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Ansible)
Be familiar with data quality assurance frameworks and pipeline testing methodologies
Have knowledge of cloud-native logging architectures (AWS Firehose, Azure Event Hub, GCP Logging)
Benefits
Comprehensive nationwide Medical/Dental/Vision insurance programs
Life insurance
Matching 401k contribution
Educational/Training support
Company
INNOVIM
INNOVIM is a defense & space company offering IT, Science and Engineering applications.
51-200 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageLeadership Team
Shahin Samadi, Ph.D.
Co-Founder and CTO
Marianna Murphy
Chief Operating Officer
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