AWS Elastic Observability Engineer (Kubernetes & Automation)

ECS Corporate Services; Fairfax (VA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Everforth ECS is seeking an AWS Cloud Elastic Observability Engineer to deploy and support AWS cloud environments for coalition enclaves in the DoD community. This role is hands-on, focused on automation, writing infrastructure code, and improving deployment pipelines.

You will deploy and maintain the Elastic Observability stack using Docker and Kubernetes, build dashboards, and ensure reliable data ingestion and monitoring across distributed systems, with onsite work in Fairfax, VA.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of related experience.
• U.S. Citizen.
• Active Secret clearance.
• DoD 8140 IAT Level II Security+ (or higher).

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).
• 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.

Skills

5+ years experience

AWS Cloud

Elastic Observability

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Docker

Ansible

Kubernetes

Helm

ECK

Job description

Everforth ECS is seeking an AWS Cloud Elastic Observability Engineer to deploy and support AWS cloud environments for coalition enclaves in the DoD community. This role is hands-on, focused on automation, writing infrastructure code, and improving deployment pipelines.

You will deploy and maintain the Elastic Observability stack using Docker and Kubernetes, build dashboards, and ensure reliable data ingestion and monitoring across distributed systems, with onsite work in Fairfax, VA.