Senior Elastic Platform Engineer - Observability & Infra

ZP Group; Illinois; On-site; USD 230,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance available

Comprehensive benefits

Long-term project placement

Job summary

Zachary Piper Solutions is seeking a Senior Elastic Platform Engineer to support a critical Department of Defense program at Scott Air Force Base, IL. The role focuses on designing, deploying, and managing enterprise Elastic environments to support observability, analytics, and cybersecurity initiatives.

The candidate will own Elastic platforms, work with Kubernetes, ECK, Rancher environments, and implement IaC practices while ensuring security controls and documentation are in place.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in Platform Engineering, DevOps, SRE, or related disciplines.
• Hands-on with Elastic environments including Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, Beats, and Elastic Agent.
• Production Kubernetes experience with containerized deployments (Rancher preferred).
• Ability to independently own and manage enterprise-scale Elastic platforms.
• Experience with data pipelines, observability, and cybersecurity-focused Elastic implementations.
• Active Secret Security Clearance required (TS considered).

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and maintain enterprise Elastic Stack environments (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, Beats, Elastic Agent).
• Build and support Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK) deployments in containerized environments.
• Manage Elastic clusters for performance, scalability, and resiliency.
• Support Kubernetes-based infrastructure and Rancher-managed environments.
• Develop data ingestion pipelines and platform integrations.
• Collaborate to deploy monitoring, logging, observability, and analytics solutions.
• Perform platform troubleshooting, capacity planning, and health management.
• Support migrations from Splunk to Elastic and automate deployments with IaC.

Skills

Elastic Stack

Kubernetes

Containerization

DevOps

Site Reliability Engineering

Linux

Active Secret Clearance

Tools

Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK)

Rancher

Docker

Elastic Cloud Enterprise (ECE)

Elastic Cloud Hosted (ECH)

Cribl

Job description

Zachary Piper Solutions is seeking a Senior Elastic Platform Engineer to support a critical Department of Defense program at Scott Air Force Base, IL. The role focuses on designing, deploying, and managing enterprise Elastic environments to support observability, analytics, and cybersecurity initiatives.

The candidate will own Elastic platforms, work with Kubernetes, ECK, Rancher environments, and implement IaC practices while ensuring security controls and documentation are in place.