ELK-Driven Platform Engineer for Observability and DevOps

NRECA; Virginia (MN); Hybrid; USD 158,000 - 195,000; Full time

Job summary

NRECA is seeking a seasoned engineer to provide technical leadership for enterprise software delivery via shared platforms, automation, and DevOps practices. The role focuses on designing and evolving platform capabilities that improve reliability, security, and consistency across development and operations teams.

You'll drive adoption of observability solutions, lead cross-team initiatives, and standardize patterns, ensuring scalable logging, monitoring, and tracing capabilities across the

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience with enterprise platforms.
• 8+ years in software engineering, cloud infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, or DevOps practices.
• Professional certifications related to cloud platforms, DevOps practices, security, or architecture.
• Demonstrated experience driving adoption of shared platforms across multiple teams, including influencing standards, onboarding, and change management.
• Experience aligning observability solutions with security, compliance, and operational requirements (e.g., handling sensitive or regulated data in logs).

Responsibilities

• Advises and supports application teams as a subject matter expert on application observability, guiding effective adoption of logging and monitoring tools and techniques.
• Owns and evolves the enterprise Elasticsearch (ELK Stack) platform, including architecture, configuration standards, and operational best practices.
• Enables adoption of Elasticsearch through reference architectures, onboarding patterns, documentation, and hands-on guidance.
• Leads and coordinates cross-team technical initiatives to deliver platform capabilities including application performance monitoring, enhanced support and troubleshooting, automated controls, and developer workflow improvements.
• Improves mean time to detection (MTTD) and mean time to resolution (MTTR) through standardized observability practices and platform capabilities.
• Designs and implements shared DevOps platform capabilities, including CI/CD templates, infrastructure-as-code frameworks, cloud platform services, Elasticsearch-based observability solutions, and developer automation, to enable consistent adoption across teams.
• Develops and standardizes reusable engineering patterns, standards, and 'golden paths' that enable consistent development, deployment, and operational practices across the enterprise.
• Partners and collaborates with applications, infrastructure, and security teams to align DevOps enablement with enterprise architecture, governance, operational requirements, and business objectives.
• Drives improvements in software delivery reliability, security, and consistency through reusable solutions and platform-driven best practices.
• Ability to report to the office when required

Skills

Elasticsearch

ELK Stack

Observability

DevOps

Cloud

CI/CD

Platform Engineering

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science/Information Systems Technology

Tools

CI/CD templates

Infrastructure as Code

Cloud platforms

Elasticsearch observability

Job description

NRECA is seeking a seasoned engineer to provide technical leadership for enterprise software delivery via shared platforms, automation, and DevOps practices. The role focuses on designing and evolving platform capabilities that improve reliability, security, and consistency across development and operations teams.

You'll drive adoption of observability solutions, lead cross-team initiatives, and standardize patterns, ensuring scalable logging, monitoring, and tracing capabilities across the