Senior Elastic Engineer with Active Secret Clearance

Nightwing; Sterling (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Nightwing is seeking an Elastic Engineer to join a distributed team focused on building and sustaining an ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) with strong data onboarding, visualization, and reporting capabilities. The role requires deep Elastic stack expertise, scripting skills, and a clearance pathway for federal work.

Preferred candidates will have 6+ years in software development, 2+ years with ECK, and 2+ years in Elasticsearch DSL, plus 5+ years with Kubernetes.

Qualifications

• Requires U.S. Citizenship.
• Active Secret clearance with ability to obtain TS/SCI.
• Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering or Computer Science required.
• Minimum 6+ years of software development experience.
• At least 2 years with Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK).
• At least 2 years of Elasticsearch DSL experience.
• At least 5 years of Kubernetes architecture knowledge.
• Strong ELK stack knowledge and scripting in Python/JavaScript/Bash.

Responsibilities

• Build data pipelines to ingest external datasets into Elastic products.
• Design, deploy, and maintain the ELK platform (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana).
• Install and configure ELK; use ES indices, APIs, Kibana dashboards, and Beats.
• Create or integrate ELK plug-ins for authentication/authorization.
• Integrate ELK with enterprise tools and APIs (auth/authorization).
• Develop complex use cases using Python, Groovy, Bash.
• Maintain and monitor Elastic infrastructure.

Skills

US Citizenship

Active Secret Clearance

TS/SCI clearance

DHS Suitability

Elastic engineering

ELK stack

Kubernetes

Python scripting

JavaScript scripting

Bash scripting

Agile experience

Federal customers

Education

Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering or Computer Science

Tools

ECK (Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes)

Elasticsearch DSL

Kibana

Logstash

Beats

Git

Job description

Nightwing is seeking an Elastic Engineer to join a distributed team focused on building and sustaining an ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) with strong data onboarding, visualization, and reporting capabilities. The role requires deep Elastic stack expertise, scripting skills, and a clearance pathway for federal work.

Preferred candidates will have 6+ years in software development, 2+ years with ECK, and 2+ years in Elasticsearch DSL, plus 5+ years with Kubernetes.