Senior Elasticsearch & Observability Engineer - Onsite

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401K

PTO

Holidays

Job summary

Zachary Piper Solutions is seeking an Elasticsearch & Observability Engineer to support a high-visibility federal cybersecurity program in an on-site Colorado Springs environment. You will design, implement, and manage Elasticsearch clusters while building robust observability and monitoring across mission-critical systems.

The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in search technologies, logging pipelines, metrics, tracing, and real-time monitoring within secure, high-performance environments.

Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI clearance required.
• U.S. Passport required.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Willingness to travel domestically or internationally.
• 3+ years of Elasticsearch engineering and observability tooling experience.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Elasticsearch engineering

Observability tooling

Linux/Unix

Networking fundamentals

Cloud services

Python

Tools

Elastic Stack

Splunk

QRadar

LogRhythm

Kibana

Grafana

Job description

Zachary Piper Solutions is seeking an Elasticsearch & Observability Engineer to support a high-visibility federal cybersecurity program in an on-site Colorado Springs environment. You will design, implement, and manage Elasticsearch clusters while building robust observability and monitoring across mission-critical systems.

The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in search technologies, logging pipelines, metrics, tracing, and real-time monitoring within secure, high-performance environments.