Senior Elastic Engineer (EDR/Defend Focus)

Location: Colorado Springs, CO – Schriever Space Force Base or Huntsville, AL – Redstone Arsenal Clearance Required: Active Secret Clearance (or higher) Travel Required: Up to 10% LaunchTech is seeking a Senior Elastic Engineer (EDR/Defend Focus) to support the Missile Defense Agency (MDA). This role is critical in designing, deploying, and optimizing the Elastic Stack environment with a specialized focus on Elastic EDR and Defend capabilities. You will help strengthen cybersecurity posture across the enterprise by enabling advanced detection, prevention, and analysis through a highly tuned Elastic environment. What You’ll Do As a Senior Elastic Engineer (EDR/Defend Focus), you will: Be a key contributor to the design, implementation, and maintenance of the Elastic Stack environment, with a primary focus on Elastic EDR and Defend Ensure the security, scalability, and performance of the Elastic Stack infrastructure, integrating it with existing security tools and workflows Key Responsibilities Architect, deploy, and maintain a highly available and scalable Elastic Stack environment specializing in Elastic EDR/Defend Configure and optimize Elastic EDR/Defend policies and data pipelines for threat detection, prevention, and security event enrichment Develop and maintain Kibana dashboards and visualizations for real-time monitoring, threat identification, and incident response tracking Perform proactive threat hunting and in-depth security analysis using Elastic EDR/Defend Troubleshoot complex Elastic Stack issues, develop documentation, and mentor junior engineers to ensure operational excellence What You Bring The successful candidate will have: Expert knowledge of the Elastic Stack