Senior Elastic Engineer - Remote, Scale & Observability

ECS Corporate Services; Fairfax (VA); Remote; USD 170,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

ECS Corporate Services seeks a Sr. Elastic Engineer to design, deploy, and scale Elastic Stack environments remotely. You will work with engineering, DevOps, cloud, and client teams to deliver reliable, high-performance solutions while improving visibility into system health.

The role requires hands-on Elastic expertise, scripting, automation, and experience with cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP). U.S. passport and Secret clearance are stated expectations.

Qualifications

• Hands-on Elastic Stack design, deployment, and optimization.
• Experience building ingestion pipelines, dashboards, and alerts.
• Ability to script and automate operations with Python/PowerShell/Bash.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and maintain Elastic Stack environments across platforms.
• Build and optimize ingestion pipelines, index strategies, dashboards, and automation workflows.
• Write scripts, automation, and integrations to streamline operations, data processing, and monitoring.
• Deploy Elastic across platforms, including on-premises, public cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP), GovCloud, and containerized environments (Kubernetes, Docker, OpenShift).
• Leverage automation and orchestration tools such as Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD pipelines, and Docker to manage deployments and operational tasks.
• Integrate Elastic with enterprise tools such as SIEMs, Splunk, CrowdStrike, and other telemetry sources.
• Monitor system health, troubleshoot performance issues, and optimize for reliability and scalability.
• Lead design reviews, provide guidance on Elastic best practices, and support knowledge sharing across teams.
• Maintain documentation for architectures, deployment patterns, runbooks, and operational best practices.
• Stay current with Elastic features, certifications, and emerging platform capabilities.

Skills

Elastic Stack

Python

PowerShell

Bash

Elasticsearch

Observability

Linux

Cloud platforms

Terraform

Ansible

Docker

Kubernetes

OpenShift

CI/CD

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Docker

Kubernetes

OpenShift

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

ECS Corporate Services seeks a Sr. Elastic Engineer to design, deploy, and scale Elastic Stack environments remotely. You will work with engineering, DevOps, cloud, and client teams to deliver reliable, high-performance solutions while improving visibility into system health.

The role requires hands-on Elastic expertise, scripting, automation, and experience with cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP). U.S. passport and Secret clearance are stated expectations.