Elastic Engineer
Booz Allen Hamilton
- Location
- Washington, DC
- Employment
- Full Time
- Work model
- On-Site
- Level
- Mid
- H-1B history
- 9 approvals (FY2023)
- Posted
- Sep 21, 2026
Skills
About this role
Elastic Engineer The Opportunity: Ever-expanding technology like IoT, machine learning, and artificial intelligence means that there’s more structured and unstructured data available today than ever before. As a data engineer, you know that organizing data can yield pivotal insights when it’s gathered from disparate sources. We need an experienced data engineer like you to help our clients find answers in their data to impact important missions—from fraud detection to cancer research to national intelligence. As a data engineer at Booz Allen, you’ll help build advanced technology solutions and implement data engineering activities on some of the most mission-driven projects in the industry. You’ll deploy and develop pipelines and platforms that organize and make disparate data meaningful. Here, you’ll work with and guide a multi-disciplinary team of analysts, data engineers, developers, and data consumers in a fast-paced, agile environment. You’ll use your experience in analytical exploration and data examination while you manage the assessment, design, building, and maintenance of scalable platforms for your clients. Work with us to use data for good. Join us. The world can't wait. You Have: 5+ years of experience with SIEM platforms such as Elastic Security, Kibana, Splunk Enterprise Security, Sentinel, or Chronicle 3+ years of experience designing data pipeline architectures for security operations, including log collection, normalization, enrichment, and routing 2+ years of experience with Elastic Stack, Logstash, Elasticsearch, Kibana, and Agents, including installing, configuring, maintaining, upgrading, and troubleshooting these products Experience deploying platforms across cloud, on-premises, and disconnected environments using Kubernetes or Docker Experience with configuration management or DevOps tooling, including Ansible, Puppet, Chef, or Terraform Experience working in highly structured, controlled, classified or compartmented environments with strict access enforcement Knowledge of hot-warm-cold-frozen data tiering, blob storage, and index lifecycle strategies Knowledge of ingest pipelines, enrichment, and cluster monitoring tools Top Secret clearance HS diploma or GED Nice If You Have: Experience supporting large-scale observability solutions, including metrics, traces, or logs Experience with stream processing or data brokering platforms such as Cribl, Kafka, NiFi, or equivalent Experience with DevSecOps CI/CD pipelines in IL5, IL6, or IL7 environments Experience with Python, Bash, or other scripting languages for automating system operations tasks TS/SCI clearance with a polygraph Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Computer Engineering, or Information Systems DoD 8140 baseline Certification, such as Security+, CISSP, CISSP-ISSEP, or CASP+ Certification Clearance: Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information; Top Secret clearance is required.
Compensation
At Booz Allen, we celebrate your contributions, provide you with opportunities and choices, and support your total well-being. Our offerings include health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits, as well as paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care. Our recognition awards program acknowledges employees for exceptional performance and superior demonstration of our values. Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours a week on a regular basis are eligible to participate in Booz Allen’s benefit programs. Individuals that do not meet the threshold are only eligible for select offerings, not inclusive of health benefits. We encourage you to learn more about our total benefits by visiting the Resource page on our Careers site and reviewing Our Employee Benefits