True Zero Technologies, a veteran-owned small business, was founded on the principle that the purposeful enablement of people and technology in an organization directly ties to the quality of its outcomes. True Zero recognizes that said outcomes begin and end with our people, and that is what we have built, a community of like-minded, driven, and passionate individuals and innovators who are aligned in a common goal of delivering top tier services to our customers. In 2023, True Zero was recognized as a “Best Places to Work” in two categories ("Prosperous and Thriving" ($5MM – $50MM in gross revenue) and "Mid-Atlantic Region" (DC, DE, MD, NC, VA, WV)) and in 2022, was recognized as one of Inc. Magazine’s Top 5000 Fastest Growing Companies.
The candidate will be part of a team of Data Analytic Engineers maintaining various client's Elastic, Logstash, and Kibana instances with a heavy emphasis on data on-boarding, content development, configuration, troubleshooting, reporting, and visualizations. All candidates must possess prior Elastic engineering and administration experience, meet the necessary certification prerequisites, and work well in a team environment. Candidates with backgrounds supporting federal customers is a plus.
As a TZT consultant, the candidate will receive access to the full knowledge base which is driven by the True Zero community as well as the technical backing of the entire PS team. True Zero encourages collaboration and growth through information sharing and knowledge workshops. The candidate will also have access to our internal Slack channel to stay connected with the team as well as the necessary tools to train, demo, test and grow their professional skills.
Qualifications - Required
- Must have Elastic Engineer, Elastic Analyst, and/or Elastic Observability Engineer Certifications
- Experience maintaining and administering enterprise Elastic implementations.
- 3+ years of Elasticsearch stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Beats, Kibana) experience in active production environment
- Experience with common operating systems [e.g. Windows, Linux, CentOS, Ubuntu, and/or Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)]
- Experience with data ingest, Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) techniques
- Experience with multi-node clustering, architecture, development, implementation, and health monitoring of the indexes
- Advanced understanding of hot/warm/cold data/index lifecycle management implementations
- Advanced understanding of Elasticsearch Management, reindexing and data mappings, JSON and KQL searching syntax, and Kibana dashboard options
- Experience working in DevOps and Agile organizations
- Experience troubleshooting, tuning, and configuring Elasticsearch clusters, nodes, shards, and analyzers from the “ground up”
- Experience configuring and managing Elastic CDM Dashboard
- Experience designing, documenting, implementing, securing, and maintaining Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana (ELK Stack) Enterprise solutions
- Excellent written and oral skills, ability to work closely with multiple customers, manage expectations, and track engagement scope.
- U.S. Citizenship is required as this is in support of a Federal Customer.
Qualifications - Preferred
- Understanding of Syslog daemon configuration principles, ideally in Syslog-NG and RSyslog configurations.
- Cloud experience (AWS, Azure, etc.)
- Development and API experience (Python, Perl, XML)
- SaltStack, Ansible, and other enterprise automation tool experience.
- Hardware experience and storage experience (SAN, NAS, etc.)
- Git experience (GitHub & GitLab)
- Cribl experience a plus.
U.S. Citizenship is required as this is in support of a Federal Customer.
We’re actively searching for talented security and technology practitioners who are ready to experience the True Zero difference. As a True Zero team member, you'll enjoy:
- Competitive salary, paid twice per month
- Best in class medical coverage
- 100% of medical premiums covered by True Zero
- Company wide new business incentive programs
- Contribution Incentives (i.e. white papers, blog posts, internal webinars, etc.)
- 3 weeks of PTO starting + 11 Paid Holidays Annually
- 401k Program with 100% company match on the first 4%
- Monthly reimbursement of Cell Phone and Home Internet costs
- Paternity/Maternity Leave
- Investment in training and certifications to broaden and deepen your technical skills
