Senior Elastic Engineer - Scale Elastic Stack & Automation

ecsfederal; Colorado; On-site; USD 170,000 - 225,000; Full time

Job summary

Everforth ECS seeks a Sr. Elastic Engineer to design, deploy, and maintain Elastic Stack environments across on-premises, cloud, and GovCloud. You will build ingestion pipelines, write automation scripts, and drive reliability at scale.

You will collaborate with DevOps, cloud, and client teams, mentor engineers, and stay current with Elastic features while supporting domestic or international on-site engagements. A TS/SCI clearance and U.S. passport are required.

Qualifications

• Hands-on expertise with Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, Beats, Fleet).
• Strong scripting and automation skills (Python, PowerShell, Bash).
• Understanding of observability, logging, metrics, and distributed systems.
• Experience deploying Elastic in production-scale environments.
• Cloud knowledge across AWS/Azure/GCP; Linux/Unix experience.
• Ability to mentor and influence teams; excellent communication.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and maintain Elastic Stack environments across on-premises, cloud, GovCloud, and containerized platforms.
• Build and optimize ingestion pipelines, index strategies, searches, dashboards, and automation workflows.
• Write scripts and integrations (Python, PowerShell, Bash) to streamline operations and monitoring.
• Leverage Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD, and Docker for deployments and orchestration.
• Integrate Elastic with SIEMs, Splunk, CrowdStrike, and telemetry sources.
• Monitor health, troubleshoot performance, and improve reliability and scalability.
• Lead design reviews, share Elastic best practices, and document architectures.

Skills

Elastic Stack

Scripting

Observability

Cloud platforms

Linux/Unix

TS/SCI Clearance

U.S. Passport

On-site readiness

Job description

Everforth ECS seeks a Sr. Elastic Engineer to design, deploy, and maintain Elastic Stack environments across on-premises, cloud, and GovCloud. You will build ingestion pipelines, write automation scripts, and drive reliability at scale.

You will collaborate with DevOps, cloud, and client teams, mentor engineers, and stay current with Elastic features while supporting domestic or international on-site engagements. A TS/SCI clearance and U.S. passport are required.