Senior ELK Engineer

Company: Zscaler
Location: San Jose
Posted on: April 20, 2024

Job Description:

**This role requires US Citizenship and FedRamp clearance. Location: Remote within the US. Please only apply if these apply to you.**
Job Description:
We are seeking a highly skilled Senior ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana) Engineer to join our dynamic team. This hire will play a crucial role in developing and implementing effective security countermeasures to defend against cyber threats. You will work closely with our security operations team to maintain and grow visibility as well as detection and response capabilities to protect Zscaler users and systems.
Key Responsibilities:

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• Application Ownership: Act as SME for an ELK stack to monitor health, build and maintain logging pipelines, improve logging efficiencies, measure alerting efficiency, and reduce time-to-detect and time-to-respond.
  
• Countermeasure Development: Design, develop, and implement innovative security countermeasures to proactively detect and mitigate cyber threats.
  
• Software Development: Leverage your software development skills to create custom scripts, tools, and automation to enhance our security capabilities.
  
• Threat Analysis: Analyze emerging threats and vulnerabilities to develop effective countermeasures and stay ahead of cyber adversaries.
  
• Documentation: Create comprehensive documentation for countermeasures, scripts, and processes to facilitate knowledge sharing and training within the organization.
  
• Collaboration: Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including security analysts, engineers, and threat hunters, to enhance our cybersecurity defense strategy.
  
• Continuous Improvement: Stay up-to-date with the latest cybersecurity trends, tools, and techniques to continuously improve our countermeasure capabilities.
  
  Required Qualifications:
  
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  • US Citizenship
    
  • At least 4 years implementing, maintaining, and supporting ELK stacks (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)
    
  • Proven experience in software development and scripting (C/C++, Java, Python, PowerShell, etc.)
    
    Highly preferred skills:
    
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    • Strong knowledge of cybersecurity principles, threat landscape, and attack vectors.
      
    • Experience leveraging data-driven methodologies of evaluating technology and countermeasure effectiveness
      
    • A problem-solver mentality who can think creatively and take on large, undefined projects with minimal supervision
      
    • Ability to be on-call to support after-hours incidents in an on-needed basis
      
    • Effective communication and teamwork skills.
      
      Nice to have:
      
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      • Preference to have additional experience implementing, maintaining and supporting security technologies such as SOAR, XDR, and EDR
        
      • Relevant certifications such as CISSP, CEH,n or CompTIA Security+ are a plus.
        
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