Observability Engineer

ECS Corporate Services; Fairfax (VA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

U.S. Citizen

DoD Secret clearance

Job summary

Everforth ECS in Fairfax, VA is seeking an Observability Engineer in a hybrid capacity to support enterprise observability, telemetry visualization, and monitoring in a federal healthcare environment. You will design, deploy, and maintain Elastic Observability (Logs, Metrics, APM, Uptime) across DoD/DISA cloud environments, building Kibana dashboards and analytics workflows.

Required: DoD 8140 IAT II Security+ (or CISSP); AWS CloudOps Engineer - Associate; AWS Solutions Architect - Associate; a

Qualifications

• 7+ years of relevant observability experience.
• Experience with Elastic Observability deployment and maintenance.
• Strong knowledge of Kibana dashboards and analytics workflows.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and maintain Elastic Observability (Logs, Metrics, APM, Uptime) across DoD/DISA environments.
• Develop Kibana dashboards, visualizations, and analytics workflows for operations teams.
• Instrument and monitor applications with Elastic APM agents across Java, .NET, Node.js, Python.
• Configure alerting and leverage anomaly detection to identify system degradation.

Skills

Kibana dashboards

Elastic Observability

OpenTelemetry

Distributed tracing

Telemetry analytics

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/Engineering

Tools

Kibana

Elastic Stack

CloudFormation / IaC

Job description

Everforth ECS is seeking a Observability Engineer in our Fairfax, VA office in a hybrid capacity. Everforth ECS Federal is seeking a Observability Engineer to support development and operationalization of enterprise observability, telemetry visualization, operational analytics, and monitoring capabilities within a federal healthcare environment supporting the DOW. The Kibana/Observability Engineer will act as the principal subject matter expert for designing, deploying, and maintaining the Elastic Observability solution (Logs, Metrics, APM, and Uptime/Synthetics) across Department of DOD/DISA Enterprise and cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Initiatives with hands-on Kibana dashboard and visualization development experience
• Design and develop native and complex Kibana dashboards, visualizations, analytics workflows, and operational reporting capabilities
• Architect, engineer, and scale Elastic environments specifically tuned for time-series metrics, distributed tracing, and high-volume application logs
• Deploy and instrument Elastic APM agents across diverse application stacks (Java, .NET, Node.js, Python) to trace transactions and isolate performance bottlenecks
• Configure advanced alerting rules and leverage Elastic Machine Learning (anomaly detection) to identify system degradation before it impacts end-users
• Collaborate with engineering and security teams to normalize telemetry and improve observability coverage
• Build intuitive, role-specific Kibana dashboards and Canvas workpads that unify logs, metrics, and traces for rapid root-cause analysis by IT operations
• Monitor system activity and identify anomalous or suspicious operational trends

Support

• Operational awareness, incident monitoring, and continuous monitoring activities
• Implementation and monitoring of Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs)
• Training and knowledge transfer for operational stakeholders
• Develop reporting and visualization strategies supporting executive and operational stakeholders

General Description of Benefits

• U.S. Citizen.
• Active DoD Secret security clearance.

Required active certifications

• DoD 8140 IAT Level II Security+ (or higher) or CISSP.
• AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer - Associate
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate

Education Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Engineering or Computer Science, 7+ years of experience experience.

Experience

• Supporting Elastic observability, telemetry analytics (e.g., OpenTelemetry, SIEM/log architectures) and operational monitoring implementations.
• Developing executive dashboards, operational reporting, and visualization strategies.
• Cloud architecture, system administration, and infrastructure-as-code principles.

Additional Experience

• Familiarity with SIEM, telemetry analytics, metrics, distributed tracing, and observability concepts.
• Knowledge in software engineering and development methodologies (essential for deep APM and code-level tracing).
• Ability to apply analytical reasoning to comprehend complex distributed systems, microservices architectures, and telemetry data.
• Understanding of Federal cybersecurity and compliance environments preferred.
• Excellent written, presentation, and stakeholder engagement skills
• Ability to support 10-15% travel
• Strong problem-solving and decision-making capabilities, with a proven ability to weigh the relative costs and benefits of potential actions and identify the most appropriate solution.
• Highly developed interpersonal and oral/written communication skills, with the ability to effectively and professionally interact with a diverse set of stakeholders (from peers to end-users to executive management).

Note: Salary is commensurate with skillset, qualifications, experience, and educational background. Salary Range: $140,000-165,000

Note: Salary is commensurate with skillset, qualifications, experience, and educational background.