Senior Elastic Stack Architect — Remote

ecsfederal; Virginia (MN); Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

ECS Federal is seeking a Sr. Elastic Engineer to design, deploy, and optimize Elastic Stack environments remotely. You will collaborate with engineering, DevOps, cloud, and client teams to deliver high-performance, scalable solutions with strong reliability and observability.

The role emphasizes automation, scripting, and legacy to modern data pipelines, spanning on-prem, cloud, GovCloud, and containerized platforms while maintaining system health and performance. A Secret clearance is preferred.

Qualifications

• Hands-on expertise with Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, Beats, Fleet).
• Strong scripting skills (Python, PowerShell, Bash) and automation experience.
• Solid Linux/Unix knowledge and cloud platform familiarity (AWS, Azure, GCP).

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and maintain Elastic Stack environments across platforms.
• Build and optimize ingestion pipelines and dashboards; develop automation workflows.
• Write scripts and integrations to streamline operations and monitoring.
• Deploy Elastic across on-prem, cloud, GovCloud, and containerized environments (Kubernetes, Docker, OpenShift).
• Lead design reviews and share Elastic best practices across teams.
• Maintain deployment runbooks and architecture documentation.

Skills

Elastic Stack

Scripting

Linux/Unix

Cloud platforms

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

CI/CD

Docker

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Job description

ECS Federal is seeking a Sr. Elastic Engineer to design, deploy, and optimize Elastic Stack environments remotely. You will collaborate with engineering, DevOps, cloud, and client teams to deliver high-performance, scalable solutions with strong reliability and observability.

The role emphasizes automation, scripting, and legacy to modern data pipelines, spanning on-prem, cloud, GovCloud, and containerized platforms while maintaining system health and performance. A Secret clearance is preferred.