$180,000–$200,000 Per Year
Aerospace and Defense, Ansible, Automation, Cloud Computing, Communication Skills, Computer Science, Continuous Deployment/Delivery, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Disaster Recovery, Distributed Computing, Elasticsearch, Enterprise Protection, Government, Identify Issues, Incident Response, Information Technology & Information Systems, Legal, Linux Administration, Metrics, Performance Analysis, Production Support, Production Systems, Reliability Engineering, Reporting Dashboards, Root Cause Analysis, Secret Clearance, Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), Security Infrastructure, Security Monitoring, Splunk, Systems Engineering, Team Player, Technical Support, Telemetry, Unix System Administration, Vehicle Fleets
Zachary Piper Solutions is seeking a Senior Elastic Engineer to join an industry leading defense technology organization supporting mission-critical infrastructure at Hanscom AFB, MA or Langley AFB, VA. The Senior Elastic Engineer will be responsible for operating, maintaining, and optimizing large-scale Elastic Stack environments supporting enterprise search, logging, security monitoring, and observability. This role will focus on ensuring platform reliability, automation, scalability, and operational excellence across Kubernetes-based deployments within highly secure government environments.
Responsibilities for the Senior Elastic Engineer Include:
- Administer, support, and optimize enterprise-scale Elastic Stack environments supporting search, logging, observability, and security operations.
- Manage Kubernetes-based Elastic deployments utilizing the Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK) Operator.
- Design and implement automation for platform deployment, monitoring, incident response, and operational workflows.
- Develop and maintain observability frameworks including centralized logging, metrics collection, distributed tracing, and performance monitoring.
- Build dashboards and visualizations to monitor infrastructure health, network bandwidth, application performance, and cluster utilization.
- Update and maintain data collectors across Kubernetes clusters to ensure accurate telemetry and system visibility.
- Plan and coordinate cluster maintenance activities including shutdowns, upgrades, data retention, and disaster recovery procedures.
- Integrate Elastic Stack with SIEM, EDR, and enterprise security platforms including Splunk, CrowdStrike, Trellix, and related telemetry systems.
Qualifications for the Senior Elastic Engineer Include:
- Bachelor''s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related technical field required. Equivalent experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
- 5+ years of experience supporting enterprise production environments as a Site Reliability Engineer, DevOps Engineer, Platform Engineer, Systems Engineer, or Elastic Engineer.
- Extensive experience administering enterprise Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, Beats, Fleet) environments.
- Strong expertise deploying and managing Kubernetes environments, with Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK) experience highly preferred.
- Strong Linux/Unix administration and networking fundamentals.
- Experience implementing enterprise observability, monitoring, and telemetry solutions.
- Experience developing automation utilizing Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD pipelines, or Infrastructure-as-Code tools.
- Experience integrating Elastic with SIEM, EDR, and enterprise security platforms such as Splunk, CrowdStrike, Trellix, or similar technologies.
- Ability to create operational dashboards, monitoring visualizations, and infrastructure health reporting.
- Strong troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and incident response skills supporting distributed production systems.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate across infrastructure, security, engineering, and operations teams.
- Active Secret Clearance required or the ability to obtain and maintain one.
Compensation for the Senior Elastic Engineer includes:
Salary Range: $180,000 - $200,000 annually depending on experience
Comprehensive Benefits: PTO, Paid Holidays, Medical, Dental, Vision, 401k, and Sick Leave as required by law.
This job opens for applications on 6/26/2026. Applications for this job will be accepted for at least 30 days from the posting date.
Keywords:
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