Elastic Engineer

Worky; United States; On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Everforth ECS Federal is seeking a Junior to Mid-Level Elastic Engineer to design, deploy, and maintain secure Elasticsearch solutions focused on Elastic Security, ingestion pipelines, and compliance with VA and federal cybersecurity standards.

The role emphasizes learning from senior engineers, collaborating across teams, and delivering scalable, observable Elasticsearch deployments in VA environments.

Qualifications

• Hands-on Elastic Stack engineering experience.
• Languages like Python, C++, JavaScript and PowerShell for automation.
• Experience with security features and data ingestion pipelines.
• Familiarity with Linux administration and scripting.
• Ability to work with senior engineers in a collaborative environment.
• Citizen eligible for government background investigations.

Responsibilities

• Assist in implementing Elastic Security features (RBAC, TLS) under guidance.
• Support cybersecurity event analysis, changes, and performance issues.
• Help develop ingestion pipelines, parsers, enrichment workflows, telemetry normalization.
• Deploy and configure Elasticsearch clusters across VA enclaves and cloud.
• Troubleshoot ingestion, performance, and observability alerts with escalation.
• Contribute to compliance validation and continuous monitoring activities.
• Create technical documentation, procedures, and training materials.
• Provide Tier 2-3 troubleshooting and learn from senior engineers.

Skills

Elastic Stack

Python

C++

JavaScript

PowerShell

Linux administration

Tools

Elasticsearch

TLS encryption

RBAC

Job description

Everforth ECS Federal is looking for a motivated Junior to Mid-Level Elastic Engineer to support the design, deployment, and maintenance of secure, scalable Elasticsearch solutions. This role will focus on Elastic Security features, ingestion pipeline development, and compliance with Veterans Affairs and federal cybersecurity standards. The ideal candidate will have foundational Elasticsearch and cybersecurity skills, a willingness to learn advanced concepts, and the ability to work closely with senior engineers in a collaborative environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Assist in implementing and maintaining Elastic Security features (e.g., Role-Based Access Control, TLS encryption) under senior engineer guidance.
• Support analysis of cybersecurity events, system changes, and performance issues, applying basic cybersecurity and privacy principles.
• Help develop and refine ingestion pipelines, parsers, enrichment workflows, and telemetry normalization strategies.
• Participate in the deployment and configuration of Elasticsearch clusters across VA enclaves and cloud environments.
• Troubleshoot ingestion issues, performance slowdowns, and observability platform alerts with escalation support.
• Contribute to ATO, RMF, compliance validation, and continuous monitoring activities.
• Assist in creating technical documentation, operational procedures, and training materials.
• Provide Tier 2-3 troubleshooting support and learn from senior technical team members.

Salary Range: $100,000 - 130,000

General Description of Benefits

Qualifications

• Must be a U.S. citizen eligible to obtain andmaintaina Tier 5 (critical sensitive national security) background investigation.
• Minimum 2 years of experience supporting enterprise logging, SIEM, observability, or cybersecurity engineering platforms
• Minimum 2 years of hands-on Elastic Stack engineering experience
• Minimum 2 years working with languages like Python, C++, JavaScript, and PowerShell to automate tasks, analyzemalware and develop security tools and practices
• Exposure to large-scale data ingestion, telemetry normalization, or analytics platforms.
• Basic understanding of incident handling methodologies for log data.
• Familiarity with Linux administration, scripting, and automation.
• Strong problem-solving skills and eagerness to learn new technologies.
• Good written and verbal communication skills.