Senior ELK Engineer
Company: Zscaler
Location: San Jose
Posted on: May 6, 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:
- 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:
- 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:
- 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:
- 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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Keywords: Zscaler, San Jose , Senior ELK Engineer, Engineering , San Jose, California
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