Senior Elastic Stack Engineer: Scale, Automate, Optimize

ecsfederal; Virginia (MN); On-site; USD 180,000 - 205,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

TS/SCI Clearance

U.S. Passport required

On-site in Norfolk, VA

Competitive salary

Job summary

Everforth ECS is seeking a Sr. Elastic Engineer to join our Norfolk, VA Professional team. You will design, deploy, and optimize Elastic Stack environments at scale, collaborating across DevOps, cloud, and client teams to deliver high‑performance solutions.

The ideal candidate has hands-on Elastic Stack experience, strong scripting skills, and a solid understanding of observability and distributed systems. Candidates must be eligible for a U.S.

Qualifications

• Hands-on Elastic Stack expertise including design, deployment, and tuning.
• Proficient in scripting with Python, PowerShell, and Bash.
• Experience with observability, logging, metrics, and distributed systems.
• Strong Linux/Unix and cloud platform knowledge (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Ability to mentor teams and guide Elastic best practices.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and maintain Elastic Stack environments across platforms.
• Build and optimize ingestion pipelines, index strategies, and dashboards.
• Write scripts and integrations (Python, PowerShell, Bash) to streamline ops.
• Deploy Elastic across on-prem, cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP), GovCloud, and containers.
• Leverage Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD, and Docker to manage deployments.
• Integrate Elastic with SIEMs and telemetry sources.
• Monitor health, troubleshoot, and optimize reliability and scalability.
• Lead design reviews and share Elastic best practices across teams.
• Maintain architecture docs, runbooks, and deployment patterns.

Skills

Elastic Stack

Python

PowerShell

Bash

Observability

Linux

Cloud Platforms

Terraform

Ansible

Docker

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Tools

Elasticsearch

Kibana

Logstash

Beats

Fleet

Terraform

Ansible

Docker

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Job description

Everforth ECS is seeking a Sr. Elastic Engineer to join our Norfolk, VA Professional team. You will design, deploy, and optimize Elastic Stack environments at scale, collaborating across DevOps, cloud, and client teams to deliver high‑performance solutions.

The ideal candidate has hands-on Elastic Stack experience, strong scripting skills, and a solid understanding of observability and distributed systems. Candidates must be eligible for a U.S.