Senior Elastic Stack Architect - Scalable Observability

Socket.dev; Springfield (VA); On-site; USD 205,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

ECS in Springfield, VA is seeking a Sr. Elastic Engineer to design, deploy, and optimize Elastic Stack environments at scale. You will build ingestion pipelines, dashboards, and automation, collaborating with engineering, DevOps, cloud, and client teams to deliver resilient, high-performance solutions.

The role requires hands-on Elastic expertise, strong scripting skills, and ability to mentor teams. Domestic or international on-site engagements and a TS/SCI with CI Poly clearance are preferred.

Qualifications

• Deep, hands-on expertise with Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, Beats, Fleet).
• Strong scripting and automation skills (Python, PowerShell, Bash).
• Solid understanding of observability, logging, metrics, and distributed systems.
• Experience designing, deploying, and optimizing production-scale Elastic environments.
• Strong Linux/Unix, networking, and cloud platform knowledge (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Ability to mentor, guide, and influence engineering teams on Elastic best practices.
• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills.
• Willingness to support domestic or international on-site engagements.
• U.S. Passport and TS/SCI with CI Poly Clearance required.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and maintain Elastic Stack environments across on-premises and cloud platforms.
• Build ingestion pipelines, index strategies, dashboards, and automation workflows.
• Write scripts and integrations to streamline operations and monitoring.
• Lead design reviews and share Elastic best practices across teams.
• Maintain documentation for architectures, runbooks, and deployment patterns.
• Stay current with Elastic features and certifications.

Skills

Elastic Stack

Scripting

Observability

Linux/Unix

Cloud platforms

Mentoring

Communication

On-site engagements

Tools

Elasticsearch

Kibana

Logstash

Beats

Fleet

Terraform

Ansible

CI/CD

Docker

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Job description

ECS in Springfield, VA is seeking a Sr. Elastic Engineer to design, deploy, and optimize Elastic Stack environments at scale. You will build ingestion pipelines, dashboards, and automation, collaborating with engineering, DevOps, cloud, and client teams to deliver resilient, high-performance solutions.

The role requires hands-on Elastic expertise, strong scripting skills, and ability to mentor teams. Domestic or international on-site engagements and a TS/SCI with CI Poly clearance are preferred.