Senior Elastic Engineer - Onsite at Scott AFB, Secret

ZP Group; Illinois; On-site; USD 240,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Zachary Piper Solutions seeks a Sr. Elastic Engineer to deliver mission-critical Elastic environments for DoD, IC, and federal agencies. This fully onsite role at Scott AFB requires an active Secret clearance or higher and relocation where needed.

The ideal candidate will deploy Elastic clusters, manage production-grade pipelines, and own IAM and security across large-scale environments, with hands-on Kubernetes/ECK and Cribl experience.

Qualifications

• Strong platform engineering experience building and managing Elastic environments from scratch through production operations.
• Hands-on Elastic/Elasticsearch and Kubernetes experience, including custom cluster deployments at production scale.
• Working knowledge of ECK and ability to explain its architecture, deployment, and operation; direct ECK Operator experience preferred.
• Experience with IAM policies, ingest pipelines, pipeline integrations, and containerization.
• Active Secret clearance or higher; ability to work onsite at Scott AFB in Illinois.

Responsibilities

• Build, deploy, and own Elastic environments and custom clusters across production Kubernetes environments.
• Deploy and manage Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK), including ECK Operator/Helm-based deployments and containerized infrastructure.
• Manage day-to-day Elastic platform operations, maintenance, performance, scalability, and reliability after deployment.
• Build and configure custom ingest pipelines and integrations, including Cribl where applicable.
• Implement and manage IAM policies and platform security across large-scale environments.

Skills

Elastic/Elasticsearch

Kubernetes

ECK

IAM policies

Ingest pipelines

Cribl

Rancher

Elastic security

Tools

Kubernetes (ECK)

Cribl

Rancher

ECE/ECH

Job description

Zachary Piper Solutions seeks a Sr. Elastic Engineer to deliver mission-critical Elastic environments for DoD, IC, and federal agencies. This fully onsite role at Scott AFB requires an active Secret clearance or higher and relocation where needed.

The ideal candidate will deploy Elastic clusters, manage production-grade pipelines, and own IAM and security across large-scale environments, with hands-on Kubernetes/ECK and Cribl experience.