Elastic Engineer

Zachary Piper Solutions; Colorado; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental

Vision

401K

PTO

Holidays

On-site facility

Job summary

Zachary Piper Solutions seeks an Elastic Engineer to support a mission-critical federal program at Schriever Space Force Base. The role is on-site and focuses on designing, implementing, and maintaining large-scale log ingestion architectures using the Elastic Stack.

The ideal candidate has 3+ years of Elastic Stack experience, expert Logstash pipeline skills, and strong ECS knowledge. Linux admin skills and experience in air-gapped or restricted networks are a plus.

Qualifications

• 3+ years hands-on Elastic Stack experience.
• Advanced Logstash pipeline engineering.
• Strong knowledge of Elastic Common Schema (ECS).
• Linux administration experience.
• Proven ability to troubleshoot high-volume ingestion.

Responsibilities

• Design and deploy ingestion pipelines for Endpoint security telemetry, network devices and firewalls, cloud security platforms, Linux audit logs, Windows Event Logs, Kubernetes/OpenShift logs, and custom application logs.
• Normalize incoming data into ECS-compliant formats.
• Implement parsing using Grok, Dissect, KV, JSON decoding, and Translate filters.
• Design and manage multi-pipeline Logstash architectures with routing and output isolator patterns.
• Tune Logstash JVM performance and troubleshoot ingestion bottlenecks.
• Deploy and manage Elastic Agents using Fleet Server and centralized policy management.
• Support air-gapped artifact and package repositories and ensure ingestion resiliency and failover.

Skills

Logstash pipeline engineering

Elastic Stack expertise

Linux administration

High-volume ingestion troubleshooting

Tools

Elastic Stack

Kibana

Elasticsearch

Fleet Server

Ansible

Python

Bash

Job description

Zachary Piper Solutions is seeking an Elastic Engineer to support a mission‑critical federal program at Schriever Space Force Base (SFB). This on‑site role focuses on designing, implementing, and maintaining large‑scale log ingestion architectures using the Elastic Stack. The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in Logstash pipeline engineering, ECS normalization, and high‑volume ingestion across heterogeneous data sources, including restricted and air‑gapped environments.

Responsibilities

• Design and deploy ingestion pipelines for:
  • Endpoint security telemetry
  • Network devices and firewalls
  • Cloud security platforms
  • Linux audit logs
  • Windows Event Logs
  • Kubernetes/OpenShift logs
  • Custom application logs
• Normalize incoming data into Elastic Common Schema (ECS) compliant formats
• Implement parsing using Grok, Dissect, KV, JSON decoding, and Translate filters
• Design and manage multi‑pipeline Logstash architectures, including pipeline‑to‑pipeline routing and output isolator patterns
• Tune Logstash JVM performance and troubleshoot ingestion bottlenecks
• Deploy and manage Elastic Agents using Fleet Server and centralized policy management
• Support air‑gapped artifact and package repositories
• Implement ingestion resiliency, redundancy, and failover strategies
• Validate ingestion correctness, ECS alignment, and lifecycle management compliance
• Support high‑availability production environments, including restricted and disconnected networks

Qualifications

• 3+ years of hands‑on Elastic Stack experience
• Advanced Logstash pipeline engineering expertise
• Strong knowledge of Elastic Common Schema (ECS)
• Linux administration experience
• Proven experience troubleshooting high‑volume ingestion and pipeline performance issues

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with air‑gapped Elastic deployments
• Kubernetes/OpenShift logging ingestion experience
• Elastic Defend and SIEM ingestion experience
• Automation experience with Ansible, Python, Bash, or similar scripting tools

Success Metrics

• Improved ingestion reliability and resiliency
• Reduced dropped or malformed events
• Increased pipeline throughput and stability
• Consistent, standardized ECS mapping implementation

Position Details

• Location: Schriever Space Force Base (SFB)
• Environment: On‑site, secure facility
• Collaboration with cybersecurity, platform engineering, and mission operations teams

Compensation

• Salary Range: (depends on experience)
• Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K, PTO, Sick Leave (as required), Holidays

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