Elastic Agent Engineer

Leidos

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Work type: Hybrid
Location: Adelphi, MD
Salary: $107,900–$195,050 / yr
Employment: Full-time
Posted: 5 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live today
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations.

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TL;DR · Elastic Agent Engineer

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The Elastic Agent Engineer joins the team to strengthen enterprise cybersecurity visibility, endpoint protection, and centralized logging for the U.S. Army C5ISR Cyber Security Service Provider. In this hands-on engineering role, you will design, deploy, and optimize Elastic Agent, Fleet, and Elastic Defend across large-scale enterprise environments. You will develop standardized deployment solutions, automate agent installations, and manage lifecycle processes for Windows, Linux, cloud, and virtualized platforms. Key responsibilities include troubleshooting complex issues involving TLS certificates, proxies, and agent enrollment while creating technical documentation and automation scripts. You will utilize Python, PowerShell, Bash, and Ansible to support security operations. This role solves critical engineering challenges to ensure the security and resilience of mission-critical Department of War systems through advanced endpoint security and logging integrations.

Skills

Elastic Agent Elastic Fleet Elastic Defend Python PowerShell Bash Ansible Windows Linux Kubernetes AWS Microsoft Azure Google Cloud Platform CI/CD TLS PKI EDR XDR

What you'll do

Design, deploy, and maintain enterprise Elastic Agent, Fleet, and Fleet Server architectures for centralized logging and endpoint protection.
Develop standardized agent policies, enrollment methods, and lifecycle management processes for Windows, Linux, and cloud environments.
Automate agent installation, upgrades, policy assignments, and health checks using Python, PowerShell, Bash, or Ansible.
Engineer scalable deployment solutions for cloud servers, virtual desktops, containerized workloads, and distributed subscriber environments.
Resolve complex technical issues involving agent enrollment, Fleet connectivity, TLS certificates, proxies, and Elastic Defend configurations.
Develop monitoring and alerting solutions to track agent health, policy compliance, and platform performance.
Create technical documentation including deployment standards, automation scripts, implementation guides, and operational runbooks.

What we're looking for

U.S. Citizenship with an active Secret clearance and ability to obtain TS/SCI.
Bachelor's degree with 4+ years of relevant experience or a master's degree with 2+ years of relevant experience.
Hands-on experience engineering, deploying, and managing Elastic Agent, Elastic Fleet, Fleet Server, and centralized logging in production.
Experience deploying, configuring, and troubleshooting Elastic Agent across enterprise Windows and Linux systems.
Working knowledge of Elastic Defend, endpoint security policies, and operational troubleshooting.
Strong understanding of networking and security fundamentals including TLS, PKI, certificates, DNS, proxies, and firewalls.
Experience developing automation scripts using Python, PowerShell, Bash, Ansible, or similar technologies.
Ability to meet DoD 8140 qualification requirements and obtain required CSSP and Computing Environment certifications within 90 days.

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