Senior Kibana/Observability Engineer

Worky; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Everforth ECS Federal is seeking a Senior Kibana/Observability Engineer to design, deploy, and operate enterprise observability and telemetry visualization for VA environments.

The role focuses on Elastic Observability (Logs, Metrics, APM, Uptime/Synthetics), developing dashboards, configuring alerts, and driving SLO/SLI initiatives while collaborating with security and engineering teams in a federal healthcare setting.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in observability, monitoring, analytics, or dashboard engineering with Kibana development experience.
• Design and develop native and complex Kibana dashboards, visualizations, analytics workflows, and operational reporting.
• Architect, engineer, and scale Elastic environments tuned for time-series metrics and high-volume logs.
• Deploy Elastic APM agents across Java, .NET, Node.js, Python to trace transactions.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and maintain the Elastic Observability solution across VA enterprise and cloud environments.
• Build dashboards and Canvas workpads that unify logs, metrics, and traces for rapid root-cause analysis.
• Configure advanced alerting and leverage Elastic ML for anomaly detection to pre-empt degradation.
• Collaborate with engineering and security teams to normalize telemetry and improve observability coverage.
• Support SLIs/SLOs and provide reporting for executive and operational stakeholders.
• Provide training and knowledge transfer for operational personnel.

Skills

Kibana dashboards

Observability

Telemetry visualization

Elastic Stack

Time-series metrics

Alerting rules

Distributed tracing

Education

Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity/IT/Engineering or Computer Science

Tools

Elastic APM

Kibana

Canvas

ELK/Elastic Stack

AWS/Azure

Job description

Everforth ECS Federal is seeking a Senior Kibana/Observability Engineer to support development and operationalization of enterprise observability, telemetry visualization, operational analytics, and monitoring capabilities within a federal healthcare environment supporting the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

The Senior Kibana/Observability Engineer will act as the principal subject matter expert for designing, deploying, and maintaining the Elastic Observability solution (Logs, Metrics, APM, and Uptime/Synthetics) across Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) enterprise and cloud environments.

• Must be a US citizen with ability to obtain and maintain a Tier 5 (T5) background investigation (Public Trust Level 5)
• 7+ years of experience supporting observability, monitoring, analytics, or dashboard engineering initiatives with hands-on Kibana dashboard and visualization development experience
• Design and develop native and complex Kibana dashboards, visualizations, analytics workflows, and operational reporting capabilities
• Architect, engineer, and scale Elastic environments specifically tuned for time-series metrics, distributed tracing, and high-volume application logs
• Deploy and instrument Elastic APM agents across diverse application stacks (Java, .NET, Node.js, Python) to trace transactions and isolate performance bottlenecks
• Configure advanced alerting rules and leverage Elastic Machine Learning (anomaly detection) to identify system degradation before it impacts end-users
• Collaborate with engineering and security teams to normalize telemetry and improve observability coverage
• Build intuitive, role-specific Kibana dashboards and Canvas workpads that unify logs, metrics, and traces for rapid root-cause analysis by IT operations
• Monitor system activity and identify anomalous or suspicious operational trends
• Support operational awareness, incident monitoring, and continuous monitoring activities
• Develop reporting and visualization strategies supporting executive and operational stakeholders
• Support implementation and monitoring of Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs)
• Support training and knowledge transfer for operational stakeholders

Salary Range: $140,000-180,000

General Description of Benefits

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience with a Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Engineering or Computer Science, and/or equivalent experience
• One or more related certifications preferred:
• Elastic Certified Engineer or Elastic Certified Observability Engineer
• AWS Certified Security or Microsoft Azure Security Engineer
• Security+ or CSSIP
• Equivalent cybersecurity or cloud certificates