Senior Elastic Engineer - DoD, Secret Clearance, ECK

ZP Group; Illinois; On-site; USD 190,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Zachary Piper Solutions seeking an experienced Senior Elastic Engineer to support a federal modernization effort migrating enterprise security logging and observability from Splunk to Elastic at Scott Air Force Base, IL. Lead Elastic architecture, Kubernetes deployments, and data ingestion solutions in a secure DoD environment.

The ideal candidate has deep Elastic Stack expertise, strong Kubernetes/ECK skills, and a track record delivering production-grade, scalable logging platforms with SIEM

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience supporting Elastic engineering, platform engineering, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or infrastructure engineering.
• Hands-on experience designing and administering enterprise Elastic Stack environments.
• Experience building custom data ingestion pipelines and managing large-scale logging platforms.
• Advanced Kubernetes experience with Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK) deployments preferred.
• Active Secret Clearance required.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and maintain enterprise Elastic Stack environments supporting security logging, search, and observability.
• Lead migration efforts from Splunk to Elastic while ensuring minimal operational disruption.
• Build and implement custom data ingestion pipelines for enterprise security and operational data.
• Configure and manage ILM policies and data retention strategies.
• Deploy and administer Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK) environments using Kubernetes operators.
• Optimize Elastic cluster performance, scalability, reliability, and availability across production environments.
• Troubleshoot complex Elastic infrastructure, Kubernetes, and distributed system issues.
• Support security-focused logging, SIEM integrations, and enterprise observability initiatives.
• Develop automation and operational best practices for Elastic platform administration.
• Maintain technical documentation, deployment standards, and operational procedures.

Skills

Elastic Stack

SRE

Platform engineering

Data ingestion

Kubernetes

Tools

ECK (Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes)

Kubernetes

ILM (Index Lifecycle Management)

Job description

Zachary Piper Solutions seeking an experienced Senior Elastic Engineer to support a federal modernization effort migrating enterprise security logging and observability from Splunk to Elastic at Scott Air Force Base, IL. Lead Elastic architecture, Kubernetes deployments, and data ingestion solutions in a secure DoD environment.

The ideal candidate has deep Elastic Stack expertise, strong Kubernetes/ECK skills, and a track record delivering production-grade, scalable logging platforms with SIEM