Position Title: Senior Elastic Stack Data Integration Engineer

Location: Schriever Space Force Base, Colorado Springs, CO or Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, AL

Relocation Assistance: None available at this time

Remote/Telework: NO - Not available for this position

Clearance Type: DoD Secret

Shift: Day shift

Travel Required: Up to 10% of the time

Description of Duties:

The Senior Elastic Stack Data Integration Engineer supports the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) on the Integrated Research and Development for Enterprise Solutions (IRES) contract. The candidate will:

• 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.

Key Responsibilities:

• 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.

The successful candidate will:

• Have a deep command of Logstash architecture, patterns, and performance optimization.
• Have a mastery of parsing, enrichment, normalization, and ECS alignment.
• Have a strong understanding of network protocols, logging patterns, and telemetry generation from enterprise systems.
• Have advanced troubleshooting skills across data ingestion, pipeline logic, and Elastic Stack processing layers.
• Be able to design scalable, HA ingestion workflows with clear operational boundaries.
• Be able to conduct data modeling, schema design, and transformation mapping.
• Be effective at interfacing with multiple teams, gathering requirements, and aligning pipeline designs with SIEM analytics needs.
• Be focused on reliability, maintainability, and observability across all pipeline components.
• Have strong attention to detail and a disciplined approach to documentation, versioning, and configuration management.
• Be able to work independently, drive pipeline architecture decisions, and mentor junior engineers.
• Have strong documentation, workflow diagramming, and communication skills.

Resumes, in month and year format, must be submitted with application in order to be considered for the position.  The selected candidate may be assigned as an employee for one of our teammate companies.

Basic Requirements:

• Must have 10, or more, years of general (full-time) work experience
  • May be reduced with completion of advanced education
• 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 have hands-on experience ingesting, processing, and normalizing diverse log types (Windows events, syslog, firewall logs, cloud telemetry, security tooling).
• 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

Desired Requirements:

• 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).

This position is expected to pay $130,000 – $150,000 annually; depending on experience, education, and any certifications that are directly related to the position.

This position will be posted for a minimum of 3 days. If a candidate has not been selected at that time, it will continue to be posted until a suitable candidate is selected or the position is closed.

Our health and welfare benefits are designed to invest in you, and in the things that you care about. Your health. Your well-being. Your security. Your future. Typical benefits offered include flexible work schedules, educational reimbursement, retirement benefits (401K match), employee stock purchase plan, health benefits, tax saving options, disability benefits, life and accident insurance, voluntary benefits, paid time off and paid holidays, and parental leave.

       

Compensation Details:

$130,000 – $150,000

       

The compensation range or hourly rate listed for this position is provided as a good-faith estimate of what the company intends to offer for this role at the time this posting was issued. Actual compensation may vary based on factors such as job responsibilities, education, experience, skills, internal equity, market data, applicable collective bargaining agreements, and relevant laws.

 

Benefits Overview:

Our health and welfare benefits are designed to support you and your priorities. Offerings include:

• Health, dental, and vision insurance

• Paid time off and holidays

• Retirement benefits (including 401(k) matching)

• Educational reimbursement

• Parental leave

• Employee stock purchase plan

• Tax-saving options

• Disability and life insurance

• Pet insurance

 

Note: Benefits may vary based on employment type, location, and applicable agreements. Positions governed by a Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA), the McNamara-O'Hara Service Contract Act (SCA), or other employment contracts may include different provisions/benefits.

       

Original Posting:

01/14/2026 - 01/26/2026

Amentum anticipates this job requisition will remain open for at least three days, with a closing date no earlier than three days after the original posting. This timeline may change based on business needs.

       

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