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Northrop Grumman is a leading global aerospace and defense technology company providing systems in autonomous systems, cyber, C4ISR, space, strike, and logistics. Industry: Aerospace & Defense
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The Cyber Systems Engineer - level 5 joins the Space Sector team to architect, deploy, and maintain the Elastic Stack within a primarily Linux-based environment. This role involves managing Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, and Elastic Agent/Fleet/Defend components, including version upgrades, patching, and capacity planning. The engineer will develop automation using Bash, Python, PowerShell, Ansible, or Terraform to manage infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD pipelines. Key responsibilities include designing log ingestion pipelines for system, application, and network logs, normalizing data using regular expressions and grok, and building Kibana dashboards for threat hunting and incident analysis. The position requires expertise in KQL, ES|QL, and Lucene to support security operations. The work focuses on providing high-fidelity telemetry and detection logic to improve visibility and support forensic-quality evidence for cyber defense.