Senior Elastic Stack Engineer — TS Clearance

ecsfederal; Hampton (VA); On-site; USD 175,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Everforth ECS in Hampton, 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 across on‑prem, AWS/Azure/GCP, and GovCloud, with a focus on reliability and performance.

The ideal candidate has hands‑on Elastic experience, scripting and automation skills, and the ability to mentor teams while collaborating with DevOps, cloud, and client teams. A Top Secret clearance and U.S.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, Beats, Fleet).
• Strong scripting skills (Python, PowerShell, Bash) and automation mindset.
• Experience deploying production Elastic environments across on-prem and cloud.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP) and containerization.
• Ability to mentor teams on Elastic best practices and runbooks.
• U.S. Passport and willingness to support on-site engagements; Top Secret clearance.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and maintain Elastic Stack environments at scale.
• Build ingestion pipelines, index strategies, dashboards, and automation workflows.
• Write scripts and integrations to streamline operations and monitoring.
• Deploy Elastic across platforms (on-prem, cloud, GovCloud, Kubernetes, Docker, OpenShift).
• Leverage Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD to manage deployments and tasks.
• Integrate Elastic with SIEMs, Splunk, and telemetry sources; monitor health and performance.
• Lead design reviews, share Elastic best practices, and document architectures.

Skills

Elastic Stack

Python scripting

PowerShell

Bash

Observability

Distributed systems

Mentoring

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Docker

Kubernetes

OpenShift

CI/CD

Job description

Everforth ECS in Hampton, 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 across on‑prem, AWS/Azure/GCP, and GovCloud, with a focus on reliability and performance.

The ideal candidate has hands‑on Elastic experience, scripting and automation skills, and the ability to mentor teams while collaborating with DevOps, cloud, and client teams. A Top Secret clearance and U.S.