Senior Elastic Observability Engineer (Kibana)

Worky; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Everforth ECS Federal is seeking a Senior Kibana/Observability Engineer to design, deploy, and operate enterprise observability and telemetry visualization for VA environments.

The role focuses on Elastic Observability (Logs, Metrics, APM, Uptime/Synthetics), developing dashboards, configuring alerts, and driving SLO/SLI initiatives while collaborating with security and engineering teams in a federal healthcare setting.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in observability, monitoring, analytics, or dashboard engineering with Kibana development experience.
• Design and develop native and complex Kibana dashboards, visualizations, analytics workflows, and operational reporting.
• Architect, engineer, and scale Elastic environments tuned for time-series metrics and high-volume logs.
• Deploy Elastic APM agents across Java, .NET, Node.js, Python to trace transactions.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and maintain the Elastic Observability solution across VA enterprise and cloud environments.
• Build dashboards and Canvas workpads that unify logs, metrics, and traces for rapid root-cause analysis.
• Configure advanced alerting and leverage Elastic ML for anomaly detection to pre-empt degradation.
• Collaborate with engineering and security teams to normalize telemetry and improve observability coverage.
• Support SLIs/SLOs and provide reporting for executive and operational stakeholders.
• Provide training and knowledge transfer for operational personnel.

Skills

Kibana dashboards

Observability

Telemetry visualization

Elastic Stack

Time-series metrics

Alerting rules

Distributed tracing

Education

Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity/IT/Engineering or Computer Science

Tools

Elastic APM

Kibana

Canvas

ELK/Elastic Stack

AWS/Azure

Job description

Everforth ECS Federal is seeking a Senior Kibana/Observability Engineer to design, deploy, and operate enterprise observability and telemetry visualization for VA environments.

The role focuses on Elastic Observability (Logs, Metrics, APM, Uptime/Synthetics), developing dashboards, configuring alerts, and driving SLO/SLI initiatives while collaborating with security and engineering teams in a federal healthcare setting.