Senior Elastic Engineer - Elastic Stack Mastery (On-Site)

ECS; Fort Meade (MD); On-site; USD 180,000 - 205,000; Full time

Job summary

ECS is seeking a Sr. Elastic Engineer to join our Managed Security Services team in Fort Meade, MD. Ideal candidates will have strong experience with Elastic Stack and be capable of designing, coding, and deploying complex systems. You will collaborate with teams to deliver high-performance solutions while ensuring system resilience. The role requires hands-on expertise, strong scripting skills, and a minimum of a Secret Clearance. Salary ranges from $180,000 to $205,000, depending on experience.

Qualifications

• Deep, hands-on expertise with Elastic Stack.
• Strong scripting and automation skills.
• Solid understanding of observability and distributed systems.
• Experience with Elastic environment design and deployment.
• Strong knowledge of cloud platforms.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and maintain Elastic Stack environments.
• Build and optimize ingestion pipelines and automation workflows.
• Write scripts for operational efficiency.
• Deploy across various platforms including cloud.
• Monitor system health and resolve performance issues.

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 teams on Elastic best practices

Communication skills

Secret Clearance

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

CI/CD pipelines

Kubernetes

Docker

OpenShift

Job description

ECS is seeking a Sr. Elastic Engineer to join our Managed Security Services team in Fort Meade, MD. Ideal candidates will have strong experience with Elastic Stack and be capable of designing, coding, and deploying complex systems. You will collaborate with teams to deliver high-performance solutions while ensuring system resilience. The role requires hands-on expertise, strong scripting skills, and a minimum of a Secret Clearance. Salary ranges from $180,000 to $205,000, depending on experience.