Senior Elastic Platform Engineer - DoD Cloud & Kubernetes

Piper Companies; Shiloh (IL); On-site; USD 190,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Zachary Piper Solutions seeks a Senior Elastic Platform Engineer to support a DoD modernization initiative at Scott Air Force Base, IL. The role requires deep Elastic, Kubernetes, and containerized infrastructure expertise to design, deploy, and maintain enterprise Elastic environments for secure operations.

The ideal candidate will own Elastic environments, build scalable data pipelines, and work with Cribl and ECK in Kubernetes.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in Platform/Infrastructure/SRE or related roles.
• Hands-on experience deploying and supporting enterprise Elastic Stack environments.
• Strong Kubernetes experience with containerized deployments.
• Experience building Elastic clusters for large-scale logging/observability.
• Familiarity with Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK) or equivalent Kubernetes/Elastic expertise.
• Experience designing ingestion pipelines and integrating enterprise data sources.
• Onsite work five days per week at Scott Air Force Base, IL.
• Active Secret Clearance required.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and maintain enterprise Elastic Stack environments supporting logging, search, and observability.
• Build and administer Elastic clusters running on Kubernetes in production environments.
• Deploy and manage Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK) using Kubernetes operators.
• Develop and maintain custom data ingestion pipelines for operational and application data.
• Integrate Elastic environments with tools such as Cribl and other data collection platforms.
• Configure Index Lifecycle Management (ILM), data retention, and cluster optimization strategies.
• Support containerized infrastructure running in Rancher-managed Kubernetes environments.
• Troubleshoot Elastic, Kubernetes, and distributed platform issues across production systems.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to improve platform automation, reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency.
• Document architecture, deployment standards, and operational procedures.

Skills

Platform Engineering

SRE

Kubernetes

Elastic Stack

Docker/Containerization

ECK

Observability

Tools

Kubernetes

Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK)

Cribl

Rancher

ELK Stack

Job description

Zachary Piper Solutions seeks a Senior Elastic Platform Engineer to support a DoD modernization initiative at Scott Air Force Base, IL. The role requires deep Elastic, Kubernetes, and containerized infrastructure expertise to design, deploy, and maintain enterprise Elastic environments for secure operations.

The ideal candidate will own Elastic environments, build scalable data pipelines, and work with Cribl and ECK in Kubernetes.