Senior Kibana & Observability Engineer (Elastic APM)

ECS; Virginia (MN); 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 the Elastic Observability stack across VA Enterprise and cloud environments.

The role requires 7+ years in observability, hands-on Kibana dashboard development, and experience deploying APM agents. U.S. citizenship is required with ability to obtain a Tier 5 background investigation.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in observability, monitoring, analytics, or dashboard engineering with Kibana experience.
• Experience designing, deploying, and maintaining Elastic Observability (Logs, Metrics, APM, Uptime/Synthetics).
• Experience with time-series metrics, distributed tracing, and high-volume logs.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop native and complex Kibana dashboards and analytics workflows.
• Architect and scale Elastic environments tuned for observability.
• Deploy Elastic APM agents across Java/.NET/Node.js/Python apps and trace transactions.
• Configure advanced alerting and leverage Elastic ML for anomaly detection.
• Build role-specific Kibana dashboards and Canvas workpads for RCA by IT operations.

Skills

Kibana dashboards

Elastic Observability

Alerting & ML for anomaly detection

Time-series metrics & logs analysis

Root-cause analytics

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity/IT/Engineering/CS

Tools

Kibana

Elastic Stack

Elastic APM

Canvas

Job description

Everforth ECS Federal is seeking a Senior Kibana/Observability Engineer to design, deploy, and operate the Elastic Observability stack across VA Enterprise and cloud environments.

The role requires 7+ years in observability, hands-on Kibana dashboard development, and experience deploying APM agents. U.S. citizenship is required with ability to obtain a Tier 5 background investigation.