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ECS · 1 day ago

Sr. Elastic Observability Engineer

Hampton, VA

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

$140K/yr - $205K/yr

ECS is a leading mid-sized provider of technology services to the United States Federal Government. They are seeking a Sr. Elastic Observability Engineer to design and operate modern monitoring solutions that support mission-critical environments, focusing on deploying, automating, and maintaining the Elastic Observability stack.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)Cloud InfrastructureComplianceConsultingCyber SecurityInformation TechnologyMachine LearningSecuritySoftware

No H1B

Security Clearance Required

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Deploy, configure, and maintain Elastic Observability components (Elastic Agent, Beats, Logstash, Kibana, APM)

Build and manage containerized Elastic environments using Docker (including Compose and containerized pipelines)

Automate provisioning, updates, and configuration using Ansible

Preferred: Deploy and operate Elastic components in Kubernetes (ECK, Helm, operators, or custom manifests)

Maintain and optimize pipelines for logs, metrics, and traces across distributed systems

Develop dashboards, alerting rules, and visualizations in Kibana or other observability tools

Troubleshoot ingestion issues, mapping problems, parsing failures, and data quality concerns

Work with application and infrastructure teams to onboard new services into observability

Implement ILM policies, data retention standards, and monitoring best practices

Document architectures, SOPs, and engineering workflows

Stay current with Elastic features, observability trends, cloud-native monitoring, and automation patterns

Qualification

Elastic StackDockerAnsibleKubernetesLinux systemsCloud platformsPythonBashPowerShellOpenTelemetrySRE practicesCommunication skills

Required

Strong experience with the Elastic Stack, specifically Elastic Observability (logging, metrics, tracing)

Hands-on experience with Docker for containerized deployments

Strong proficiency with Ansible for automation and configuration management

Solid understanding of Linux systems and networking fundamentals

Experience parsing and normalizing log data (pipelines, ingest processors)

Ability to build and maintain dashboards, alerts, SLO/SLA visibility, and health monitoring

Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Ability to support domestic or international travel as needed (short-duration, planned)

Must possess and maintain a U.S. Passport

Must have an active Secret clearance

Preferred

Kubernetes experience strongly preferred (ECK, Helm, Operators, or cluster-level operations)

Elastic certifications (Elastic Certified Engineer or Elastic Observability Engineer)

Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)

Scripting experience with Python, Bash, or PowerShell

Experience with tracing frameworks like OpenTelemetry

Exposure to SRE practices (SLOs, error budgets, runbooks, reliability engineering)

Company

ECS

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ECS is a fast-growing 4,000-person, $1.2B provider of advanced technology solutions for federal civilian, defense, intelligence, and commercial customers.

Founded in 2001