Elastic SRE: Secure Observability & Kubernetes Ops

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

Benefits offered by this job

Onsite at Langley AFB

Competitive federal salary

Job summary

Zachary Piper Solutions seeks an Elastic Site Reliability Engineer to support a high-visibility federal engagement focused on observability, platform reliability, and security operations across classified environments at Langley AFB.

The role requires expert Elastic Stack, Kubernetes (ECK), Linux administration, and production SRE experience in secure or regulated environments, with on-site work at Langley AFB and a secret clearance.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or infrastructure operations.
• Strong hands-on Elastic Stack experience in enterprise production environments.
• Advanced Kubernetes experience, including ECK operator deployments.
• Strong Linux/Unix administration and networking fundamentals.
• Experience with observability, telemetry, logging, and monitoring platforms.
• Experience in 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 for logging, search, observability, and telemetry.
• Ensure platform reliability, uptime, scalability, and performance across production systems.
• Manage Kubernetes-based Elastic deployments, including ECK operator environments.
• Develop and maintain automation for deployment workflows, monitoring, alerting, and incident response.
• Integrate Elastic infrastructure with SIEM and security tooling (Splunk, EDR).
• Troubleshoot complex issues across distributed systems, infrastructure, and applications.
• Implement observability frameworks (logging, metrics, tracing, monitoring).
• Support CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code initiatives within DevOps.
• Maintain runbooks, escalation procedures, and technical documentation.
• Participate in on-call rotations and incident response.

Skills

Elastic Stack

Kubernetes (ECK)

Linux/Unix

Observability

Security operations

DevOps

CI/CD

GovCloud/DoD

Incident response

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

CI/CD pipelines

Splunk

Job description

Zachary Piper Solutions seeks an Elastic Site Reliability Engineer to support a high-visibility federal engagement focused on observability, platform reliability, and security operations across classified environments at Langley AFB.

The role requires expert Elastic Stack, Kubernetes (ECK), Linux administration, and production SRE experience in secure or regulated environments, with on-site work at Langley AFB and a secret clearance.