Senior Elastic Stack Engineer — Scale, Automate & Optimize

ECS; Fort Belvoir (VA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 215,000; Full time

Job summary

Everforth ECS seeks a Sr. Elastic Engineer to design, deploy, and optimize Elastic Stack environments at scale. You will collaborate with engineering, DevOps, cloud, and client teams to deliver resilient Elastic solutions, while ensuring reliability and health monitoring.

The role requires hands-on Elastic expertise, scripting prowess, and the ability to mentor teams. Willingness to support domestic or international on-site engagements is expected.

Qualifications

• Hands-on expertise with Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, Beats, Fleet).
• TS/SCI clearance minimum.
• Strong scripting skills (Python, PowerShell, Bash).
• Experience deploying Elastic at scale in cloud and on-prem environments.
• Mentor and guide engineering teams on Elastic best practices.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and maintain Elastic Stack environments at scale.
• Build ingestion pipelines, dashboards, and automation workflows.
• Develop scripts and integrations to streamline operations and monitoring.
• Deploy Elastic across AWS, Azure, GCP, GovCloud, and container platforms.
• Lead design reviews and share Elastic knowledge across teams.
• Maintain architecture docs, runbooks, and deployment patterns.

Skills

Elastic Stack

Scripting & automation

Cloud platforms

Linux/Unix

TS/SCI clearance

Team mentorship

Communication

On-site support

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Kubernetes

Docker

CI/CD

Job description

Everforth ECS seeks a Sr. Elastic Engineer to design, deploy, and optimize Elastic Stack environments at scale. You will collaborate with engineering, DevOps, cloud, and client teams to deliver resilient Elastic solutions, while ensuring reliability and health monitoring.

The role requires hands-on Elastic expertise, scripting prowess, and the ability to mentor teams. Willingness to support domestic or international on-site engagements is expected.