Sr. Elastic Engineer

ecsfederal; Illinois; On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

ECS Federal is seeking a Sr. Elastic Engineer to join our Professional team at Scott AFB, IL. You will design, deploy, and optimize Elastic Stack environments, building pipelines, dashboards, and automation to scale operations.

You will collaborate with engineering, DevOps, cloud, and client teams to deliver resilient Elastic solutions while ensuring health visibility. The ideal candidate has hands-on Elastic Stack experience and enjoys designing, coding, and deploying complex systems.

Qualifications

• Deep hands-on expertise with Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, Beats, Fleet).
• Strong scripting and automation skills (Python, PowerShell, Bash).
• Experience designing, deploying, and optimizing production-scale Elastic environments.
• Proficiency with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and container orchestration (Kubernetes, OpenShift).

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and maintain Elastic Stack environments across on-premises and cloud platforms.
• Build ingestion pipelines, index strategies, dashboards, and automation workflows.
• Develop scripts and integrations to streamline operations and monitoring.
• Lead design reviews and advise teams on Elastic best practices.
• Maintain runbooks and documentation; monitor health and optimize performance.

Skills

Elastic Stack

Scripting

Observability

Cloud platforms

Mentoring

Communication

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Docker

Kubernetes

OpenShift

CI/CD

Job description

ECS is seeking a Sr. Elastic Engineer to work in our Scott AFB, IL office.

Are you passionate about building and scaling Elastic environments and eager to make an immediate technical impact? Join ECS, a leading provider of cloud, AI, data, and enterprise transformation solutions. In this role, you will implement, optimize, and maintain Elastic Stack environments at scale while contributing to architecture, automation, and integrations that improve reliability, performance, and operational efficiency.

We are seeking a Sr. Elastic Engineer to join our Professional team. The ideal candidate has hands-on experience with Elastic Stack and enjoys designing, coding, and deploying complex systems. You will collaborate with engineering, DevOps, cloud, and client teams to deliver resilient, high-performance Elastic solutions while maintaining visibility into system health and operational workflows.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, deploy, and maintain Elastic Stack environments, includingElasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, Beats, and Fleet.
• Build and optimize ingestion pipelines, index strategies, search queries, dashboards, and automation workflows.
• Write scripts, automation, and integrations (Python, PowerShell, Bash, etc.) to streamline operations, data processing, and monitoring.
• Deploy Elastic across platforms, includingon-premises, public cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP), GovCloud, and containerized environments (Kubernetes, Docker, OpenShift).
• Leverage automation and orchestration tools such asTerraform, Ansible, CI/CD pipelines, and Docker to manage deployments and operational tasks.
• Integrate Elastic with enterprise tools such asSIEMs, Splunk, CrowdStrike, and other telemetry sources.
• Monitor system health, troubleshoot performance issues, and optimize for reliability and scalability.
• Lead design reviews, provide guidance on Elastic best practices, and support knowledge sharing across teams.
• Maintain documentation for architectures, deployment patterns, runbooks, and operational best practices.
• Stay current with Elastic features, certifications, and emerging platform capabilities.

• Deep, hands-on expertise with Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, Beats, Fleet).
• Strong scripting and automation skills (Python, PowerShell, Bash, etc.).
• Solid understanding ofobservability, logging, metrics, and distributed systems.
• Experience designing, deploying, and optimizing production-scale Elastic environments.
• StrongLinux/Unix, networking, and cloud platform knowledge (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Ability to mentor, guide, and influence engineering teams on Elastic best practices.
• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills.
• Willingness and ability to support domestic or international on-site engagements.
• U.S. Passport required.
• Must have a Secret Clearance, at minimum.