Observability Engineer

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 is seeking a Observability Engineer i n our Fairfax, VA officein 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.

• 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

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

Salary Range: $140,000-165,000

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
• Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Engineering or Computer Science, 7+ years of experience experience.
• Experience with the following:
  • 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.
• 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.