Senior Observability Engineer | Elastic & Kibana for Federal

ECS; Fairfax (VA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Everforth ECS in Fairfax, VA is seeking an Observability Engineer in a hybrid capacity to design and scale observability, telemetry visualization, and monitoring across a federal healthcare environment supporting the DOW. You will deploy Elastic APM agents, develop Kibana dashboards, configure alerts, and collaborate with security teams to improve coverage.

This role requires U.S. citizenship and active DoD security clearance.

Qualifications

• U.S. Citizen.
• Active DoD Secret security clearance.
• DoD 8140 IAT Level II Security+ (or higher) or CISSP.
• AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer - Associate
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
• Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Engineering or Computer Science, 7+ years of experience
• Experience with Elastic observability, telemetry analytics and operational monitoring implementations.
• Developing executive dashboards and reporting strategies.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop Kibana dashboards, visualizations, analytics workflows, and operational reporting capabilities.
• Architect, engineer, and scale Elastic environments for time-series metrics, tracing, and high-volume logs.
• Deploy and instrument Elastic APM agents across Java, .NET, Node.js, Python.
• Configure advanced alerting rules and use ML for anomaly detection.
• Collaborate with engineering and security teams to normalize telemetry and improve observability coverage.
• Build dashboards and Canvas workpads for rapid root-cause analysis by IT operations.
• Support monitoring of SLIs/SLOs and provide stakeholder reporting.

Skills

Kibana dashboards

Elastic observability

APM tracing

Alerting

Telemetry analytics

OpenTelemetry

Security collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Cyber security/IT/Engineering/CS

Tools

Elastic Stack

Kibana

OpenTelemetry

Terraform/Infrastructure-as-Code

AWS GovCloud or regulated cloud

Job description

Everforth ECS in Fairfax, VA is seeking an Observability Engineer in a hybrid capacity to design and scale observability, telemetry visualization, and monitoring across a federal healthcare environment supporting the DOW. You will deploy Elastic APM agents, develop Kibana dashboards, configure alerts, and collaborate with security teams to improve coverage.

This role requires U.S. citizenship and active DoD security clearance.