Elastic SRE: Observability & Security (Secret Clearance)

Piper Companies; Virginia (MN); On-site; USD 180,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Zachary Piper Solutions is seeking an Elastic Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to support a high-visibility federal engagement focused on observability, platform reliability, and security operations across classified environments. This role will manage Elastic Stack deployments at Langley AFB, VA, and coordinate with security teams to maintain compliance and performance.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years of SRE/DevOps experience, hands-on Elastic Stack, Kubernetes with ECK, and a track record of

Qualifications

• 5+ years in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps or infrastructure operations
• Hands-on Elastic Stack in enterprise production environments
• Advanced Kubernetes experience, including ECK operator deployments
• Strong Linux/Unix administration and networking fundamentals
• Experience supporting observability, telemetry, logging, and monitoring platforms
• Experience working within secure, classified, federal, or highly regulated environments
• Ability to work onsite at Langley AFB (VA)

Responsibilities

• Operate, maintain, and optimize large-scale Elastic Stack environments supporting logging, search, observability, and telemetry operations.
• Ensure platform reliability, uptime, scalability, and performance across production mission systems.
• Manage Kubernetes-based Elastic deployments, including ECK operator environments.
• Develop and maintain automation for deployment workflows, monitoring, alerting, and incident response processes.
• Integrate Elastic infrastructure with SIEM and security tooling including Splunk, EDR platforms, and telemetry systems.
• Troubleshoot complex issues across distributed systems, infrastructure, and application environments.
• Implement and support observability frameworks including logging, metrics, tracing, and monitoring solutions.
• Support CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code initiatives within DevOps environments.
• Maintain operational runbooks, escalation procedures, and technical documentation.
• Participate in on-call support rotations and incident response activities.

Skills

Elastic Stack

Kubernetes (ECK)

Linux/Unix

Observability

DevOps

CI/CD

Security in federal environments

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Splunk

EDR (CrowdStrike/Trellix)

Job description

Zachary Piper Solutions is seeking an Elastic Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to support a high-visibility federal engagement focused on observability, platform reliability, and security operations across classified environments. This role will manage Elastic Stack deployments at Langley AFB, VA, and coordinate with security teams to maintain compliance and performance.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years of SRE/DevOps experience, hands-on Elastic Stack, Kubernetes with ECK, and a track record of