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Elastic Engineer

ARGO Cyber Systems, Sterling, VA, United States


Location:

Remote / Onsite (as required)

Clearance:

Active TS/SCI (DHS EOD eligibility required)

Company:

Argo Cyber Systems, LLC – A Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB)

About Argo Cyber Systems
Argo Cyber Systems delivers advanced cybersecurity and threat-hunting capabilities to safeguard federal and critical infrastructure environments. Our teams provide rapid incident response, digital forensics, proactive hunt operations, and continuous cyber defense across host-based, network-based, and cloud-based systems. We combine mission experience with innovation-empowering our customers to detect, disrupt, and defeat adversaries in real time.

Position Overview
Argo Cyber provides technically advanced full-spectrum cyber, data operations, systems integration and intelligence mission support services to meet our customers' most demanding challenges. Our capabilities include cyber space operations, cyber defense and resiliency, vulnerability research, ubiquitous technical surveillance, data intelligence, lifecycle mission enablement, and software modernization. Argo Cyber brings disruptive technologies, agility, and competitive offerings to customers in the intelligence community, defense, civil, and commercial markets.

The Elastic Engineer will be a part of a team of Data Analytic Engineers enhancing, maintaining, and sustaining an Elastic, Logstash, and Kibana (ELK) instance with a heavy emphasis on data on-boarding, content development, configuration, troubleshooting, reporting, and visualizations. The candidate must possess prior Elastic engineering and administration experience, meet the necessary certification prerequisites, and work well in a distributed team environment.

The Duties And Responsibilities Of This Role Include

Building data pipelines to ingest external datasets into Elastic products.

Designing, building, deploying, maintaining, and enhancing the Elastic Logstash Kibana (ELK) platform.

Installing and configuring ELK.

Using Elastic search Indices, Elastic search APIs, Kibana Dashboards, Log Stash and Beats.

Using or creating plug-ins for ELK like authentication and authorization plug-ins.

Integrating ELK with enterprise tools and APIs, such as for authentication and authorization.

Designing and implementing complex development use cases and scenarios using programming language, such as Python, Groovy, and Bash.

Using Elastic Search Cluster Monitoring Tools.

Required Skills

U.S. Citizenship

Active Secret (S) clearance. Must be able to obtain a TS/SCI clearance

Must be able to obtain DHS Suitability

8+ years of directly relevant software development experience required.

At least 2 years of experience as an Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK) admin or equivalent role.

At least 2 years of experience with Elasticsearch Domain Specific Language (DSL).

At least 5 years of experience with Kubernetes architecture.

Strong knowledge of ELK stack.

Knowledge of scripting languages, such as JavaScript, Python, Bash, etc.

Desired Skills

Experience working in an agile environment.

Experience supporting federal customers.

Required Education

Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science or a related discipline is required.

Desired Certifications

DoD 8570.1-M Compliance at IAT Level I (e.g., Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)) certification highly desired

Agile software development methodology certification (e.g. SCRUM Master) highly desired.

Has achieved an Elastic certification, such as: Elastic Certified Engineer, Elastic Certified Analyst, or Elastic Certified Observable Engineer

Has achieved a Kubernetes certification, such as: Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate (KCNA), Kubernetes and Cloud Native Security Associate (KCSA), Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD), Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), or Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS)

Why Argo Cyber Systems
At Argo, you'll be part of a mission-driven, veteran-founded cybersecurity team protecting America's most critical systems. We combine hands‑on technical excellence with operational precision to outpace the threat. Join us to defend, detect, and innovate at the cyber edge.

Background & Drug Screening Disclaimer

Criminal background checks (federal, state, and local)

Employment and education verification

Reference checks

Drug screening (in compliance with federal and state law)

Security clearance verification (as applicable for classified positions)

Argo Cyber Systems reserves the right to disqualify or rescind an offer of employment based on the results of any background or screening process that, in the company's judgment, may impact an individual's ability to perform essential job functions or meet contractual obligations.

All background investigations and screenings are conducted in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws, including the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA). Candidates will be notified of their rights and provided an opportunity to review and dispute any adverse findings before final employment determinations are made.

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