Senior Elasticsearch & Observability Engineer - On-Site CO

Piper Companies; Colorado Springs (CO); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Zachary Piper Solutions is seeking an Elasticsearch & Observability Engineer to support a high-visibility federal cybersecurity program within a leading MSSP in an on-site environment in Colorado Springs, CO. The role focuses on designing, implementing, and managing Elasticsearch environments while building robust observability and monitoring capabilities across mission-critical systems.

The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in search technologies, logging pipelines, metrics, tracing, and

Qualifications

• 3 years of experience in Elasticsearch engineering and observability tooling.
• Experience with SIEM concepts and platforms (Elastic, Splunk, QRadar, LogRhythm).
• Designing, implementing, and optimizing complex SIEM or logging solutions.
• Linux/Unix, networking fundamentals, and cloud services.
• Scripting in Python, PowerShell, or Bash.
• Cybersecurity fundamentals, threat landscapes, and attack methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and manage Elasticsearch clusters across distributed environments.
• Optimize search performance, indexing strategies, and query execution.
• Ensure data integrity, availability, and security within Elastic deployments.
• Monitor cluster health and performance, proactively resolve issues.
• Develop observability frameworks using Kibana, Grafana, or similar tools.
• Implement logging, metrics, and tracing for real-time monitoring.
• Analyze and visualize datasets to identify trends and performance gaps.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define search and observability requirements.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to team members.
• Stay current with emerging technologies in search and monitoring.

Skills

Elasticsearch engineering

Observability tooling

SIEM concepts

Linux/Unix

Networking fundamentals

Cloud services

Python scripting

PowerShell scripting

Bash scripting

Cybersecurity fundamentals

Tools

Elastic Stack

Kibana

Grafana

Logstash

Beats

Elastic Agent

Job description

Zachary Piper Solutions is seeking an Elasticsearch & Observability Engineer to support a high-visibility federal cybersecurity program within a leading MSSP in an on-site environment in Colorado Springs, CO. The role focuses on designing, implementing, and managing Elasticsearch environments while building robust observability and monitoring capabilities across mission-critical systems.

The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in search technologies, logging pipelines, metrics, tracing, and