Elastic Observability Engineer (Kibana & APM) – Hybrid

ecsfederal; Virginia (MN); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

U.S. Citizen

Active DoD Secret security clearance

Job summary

Everforth ECS Federal seeks an Observability Engineer to lead Elastic Observability deployment in a hybrid Fairfax, VA setting. You will design time-series dashboards and analytics, instrument APM across stacks, and collaborate with security to normalize telemetry for enterprise monitoring.

The role emphasizes dashboards, alerting, anomaly detection, and executive reporting, with travel and DoD clearance requirements informing day-to-day activities in a federal health environment.

Qualifications

• Hands-on Kibana dashboard and visualization development experience.
• Design and develop dashboards, visualizations, analytics workflows, and operational reporting.
• Experience deploying and tuning Elastic Observability in enterprise environments.

Responsibilities

• Design and deploy Kibana dashboards and visualizations for ops teams.
• Architect and scale Elastic environments for logs, metrics, and traces.
• Instrument APM agents across Java/.NET/Node.js/Python stacks to trace transactions.
• Configure alerting rules and use ML for anomaly detection to catch issues early.
• Collaborate with security and engineering to normalize telemetry.
• Build executive dashboards and reporting for stakeholders.
• Support incident monitoring, SLIs/SLOs, and knowledge transfer.

Skills

Kibana dashboards

Elastic Observability

Time-series metrics

Distributed tracing

Telemetry analytics

Education

Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity/IT/Engineering/CS

Tools

Kibana

Elastic Stack

APM agents

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Everforth ECS Federal seeks an Observability Engineer to lead Elastic Observability deployment in a hybrid Fairfax, VA setting. You will design time-series dashboards and analytics, instrument APM across stacks, and collaborate with security to normalize telemetry for enterprise monitoring.

The role emphasizes dashboards, alerting, anomaly detection, and executive reporting, with travel and DoD clearance requirements informing day-to-day activities in a federal health environment.