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Elastic Security Engineer

Recruitment.ai
Sunnyvale, CA Contractor
POSTED ON 5/16/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 6/14/2026

Role: Elastic Security Engineer

We are seeking an experienced Elastic Security Engineer with strong hands-on expertise in on-premise Elastic (ELK) deployments. This role focuses on developing, operating, and supporting a self-managed Elastic environment for security use cases.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Design, deploy, and maintain on-prem Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)
  • Manage cluster architecture, scaling, performance tuning, and upgrades
  • Build and support SIEM use cases (log ingestion, correlation, alerting)
  • Troubleshoot data pipelines, indexing, and infrastructure issues
  • Ensure high availability, security, and reliability of the Elastic environment
  • Collaborate with security teams to improve threat detection capabilities

Required Skills:

  • Proven experience with self-managed/on-prem Elastic Stack (mandatory)
  • Strong knowledge of Elastic SIEM, log management, and security operations
  • Hands-on experience with cluster setup, node management, and performance tuning
  • Experience with ingestion tools (Beats, Logstash, APIs)
  • Solid Linux administration and scripting skills (Python/Shell)
 
 

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