Remote Senior Elastic Engineer: Scale the Elastic Stack

ECS; Richmond (VA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

ECS, a leading provider of cloud and AI solutions, is seeking a Sr. Elastic Engineer to work remotely. This role involves designing and maintaining Elastic Stack environments, optimizing ingestion pipelines, and leveraging automation tools like Terraform and Ansible. The successful candidate will have hands-on expertise with the Elastic Stack and be eligible for a U.S. Security Clearance.

The position offers a salary range of $170,000 to $190,000, along with opportunities for mentoring and collaboration across teams.

Qualifications

• Deep, hands-on expertise with Elastic Stack.
• Experience with automation/orchestration tools.
• Prior experience in DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and maintain Elastic Stack environments.
• Build and optimize ingestion pipelines and automation workflows.
• Monitor system health and optimize for reliability.
• Lead design reviews and support knowledge sharing across teams.

Skills

Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, Beats, Fleet)

Scripting and automation (Python, PowerShell, Bash)

Observability, logging, metrics, distributed systems

Production-scale Elastic environments

Linux/Unix, networking, cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)

Mentoring engineering teams on Elastic best practices

Verbal and written communication

U.S. Passport and eligibility for U.S. Security Clearance

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

CI/CD pipelines

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

ECS, a leading provider of cloud and AI solutions, is seeking a Sr. Elastic Engineer to work remotely. This role involves designing and maintaining Elastic Stack environments, optimizing ingestion pipelines, and leveraging automation tools like Terraform and Ansible. The successful candidate will have hands-on expertise with the Elastic Stack and be eligible for a U.S. Security Clearance.

The position offers a salary range of $170,000 to $190,000, along with opportunities for mentoring and collaboration across teams.