AWS OpenSearch Software Engineer

    • Peraton
  • Posted 22 days ago | Updated 22 days ago

Overview

USD 86,000.00 - 138,000.00 per year
Full Time

Skills

User guides
Log analysis
Software engineering
Open source
Use cases
Amazon S3
Release management
Identity management
Access control
Technical drafting
Test plans
Systems engineering
Software design
Distributed computing
Systems architecture
Command-line interface
Amazon Lambda
Multitasking
Problem solving
Customer service
Amazon Web Services
Leadership
Nexus
Adobe AIR
SAFE
Recruiting
Agile
Design
Scrum
Scripting
COTS
Testing
Documentation
Collaboration
Cloud computing
Analytics
Transformation
Strategy
Amazon SQS
Amazon Kinesis
Virtual private cloud
Amazon RDS
Dashboard
Governance
Promotions
Continuous integration
Continuous delivery
Policies
IDP
Administration
Elasticsearch
Software deployment
JavaScript
Groovy
Python
Bash
Linux
Automation
Orchestration
Ansible
Progress Chef
Puppet
Data
Kibana
Visualization
DevOps
JSON
Communication
Security clearance
C
DoD
SCA
Insurance
Financing

Job Details

About Peraton
Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world's leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can't be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we're keeping people around the world safe and secure.
Responsibilities

We are hiring! We are looking to add an AWS OpenSearch Software Engineer to the team! This hired individual will be responsible for designing, building, and supporting a multi-tenant logfile aggregation and analysis solution for OS, security, and application log analysis based on AWS OpenSearch. The selected candidate should be familiar with Agile software methodology, and software engineering design best practices. The candidate will work within a cross-functional Scrum team and will be responsible for developing software-based solutions, participating in acceptance criteria development, creating scripts, and utilizing Open Source and COTS tools to automate testing, documenting instructions, and participating in integration activities.

What you will do:

Collaborate with business owners to create solutions for a multi-tenant, secure logfile and application trace aggregation and analysis use-cases.
Design and implement AWS OpenSearch secure, cloud-scale log analytics and observability platform within a multi-account AWS environment.
Design, implement and maintain logfile and trace aggregation, ingestion, and transformation strategy for AWS services and other system and application sources. Includes log ingestion from the following sources:
Cloudwatch+Lambda
S3/SQS/Lambda
Kinesis/Lambda
Kinesis/Logstash
Amazon MSK/Logstash
CloudWatch
CloudTrail
VPC Flowlogs
ELB
RDS
GuardDuty
S3
Design and implement application and security log analysis dashboards.
Design and implement governance and release management process for the promotion of AWS OpenSearch dashboards to Production environments.
Integrate dashboard authoring with existing CI/CD pipelines, or back up dashboards and visualizations.
Design and implement AWS Identity and Access Management policies required to maintain role-based access control for administrators, developers, and end-users of the OpenSearch components in a multi-tenant environment. Includes integration of AWS OpenSearch with customer-managed identity provider (IdP).
Create and maintain technical design and end-user documentation.
Adhere to agency process and security standards when building application infrastructure in AWS.
Will work with multiple stakeholders to analyze requirements, clarify design dependencies, create test plans, support functional and non-functional activities.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree with 9+ years of relevant experience. Additional experience may be considered in lieu of a degree requirement.
2+ years of systems engineering/administration experience with OpenSearch / ElasticSearch stack clusters in elastic scaling AWS cloud environment
2+ years of experience with OpenSearch / Elastic Stack cluster architecture, design, and deployment.
2+ years of working with and understanding software design as it relates to OpenSearch Elasticsearch deployments or distributed computing / system architecture.
2+ years of experience with scripting (i.e. JavaScript, Groovy, Python, Bash, etc.) and working from the command line in a Linux environment.
2+ years of experience using an automation/orchestration solution such as AWS CloudFormation, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Salt, etc.
2+ years of experience using AWS Athena, AWS Glue, AWS QuickSight, and AWS Lambda in-support of data ingestion, transformation, and visualizations.
1+ years of experience with data indexing concepts.
Deep working knowledge of and proven experience with AWS OpenSearch, Elasticsearch and Kibana.
Strong understanding of AWS OpenSearch / ElasticSearch index configuration options.
Working knowledge of Kibana visualization strategies and techniques.
Advanced knowledge of ElasticSearch sharing, partitioning, aliases, watchers, etc.
Experience working in DevOps structured and Agile organizations.
Experience converting logs into JSON for ingestion / transformation for AWS OpenSearch.
Must be able to multi-task and work well with changing priorities in a fast paced, 24x7 environment.
Excellent communication, problem solving and customer service skills with the ability to translate technical detail into non-technical information.

Must be able to obtain and maintain the require agency clearance.
Preferred Qualifications:

6C High Risk Public Trust -OR- DoD Top Secret Clearance preferred.
Benefits:

At Peraton, our benefits are designed to help keep you at your best beyond the work you do with us daily. We're fully committed to the growth of our employees. From fully comprehensive medical plans to tuition reimbursement, tuition assistance, and fertility treatment, we are there to support you all the way.

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Target Salary Range

$86,000 - $138,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.

SCA / Union / Intern Rate or Range

EEO
An Equal Opportunity Employer including Disability/Veteran.

Our Values

Benefits
At Peraton, our benefits are designed to help keep you at your best beyond the work you do with us daily. We're fully committed to the growth of our employees. From fully comprehensive medical plans to tuition reimbursement, tuition assistance, and fertility treatment, we are there to support you all the way.

Paid Time-Off and Holidays
Retirement
Life & Disability Insurance
Career Development
Tuition Assistance and Student Loan Financing
Paid Parental Leave
Additional Benefits
Medical, Dental, & Vision Care