Senior Elastic Engineer — Onsite at Scott AFB (Secret)

Piper Companies; Illinois; On-site; USD 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Comprehensive benefits

Fully onsite at Scott AFB

Job summary

Zachary Piper Solutions is seeking a Sr. Elastic Engineer to support a leading technology and defense organization delivering mission-critical solutions across the U.S.

Department of Defense, intelligence community, and federal civilian agencies. This role is onsite at Scott AFB in Illinois, with relocation assistance provided and an active Secret clearance or higher* The ideal candidate will build and deploy Elastic environments from scratch, manage Kubernetes and ECK, and own the environment

Qualifications

• Strong platform engineering experience building Elastic environments from scratch and managing production systems.
• Hands-on Elastic/Elasticsearch and Kubernetes experience with production-scale deployments.
• Experience with ECK architecture, deployment, and operation; direct ECK Operator experience preferred.
• Experience with IAM policies, ingest pipelines, pipeline integrations, and containerization.
• Active Secret clearance or higher; willingness to work onsite at Scott AFB, 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 deployments and containerized infrastructure.
• Manage day-to-day Elastic platform operations, 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/security

Security clearance

On-site work

Tools

Cribl

Rancher

ECE/ECH

Splunk-to-Elastic migration

Elastic security tooling

Job description

Zachary Piper Solutions is seeking a Sr. Elastic Engineer to support a leading technology and defense organization delivering mission-critical solutions across the U.S.

Department of Defense, intelligence community, and federal civilian agencies. This role is onsite at Scott AFB in Illinois, with relocation assistance provided and an active Secret clearance or higher* The ideal candidate will build and deploy Elastic environments from scratch, manage Kubernetes and ECK, and own the environment