Sr. Elastic Engineer - 174543 - 174543

Zachary Piper Solutions; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 270,000 - 330,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision

401k Plan

PTO

Holidays

Sick Leave

Job summary

Zachary Piper Solutions seeks a Sr. Elastic Engineer to support a DoD-focused tech organization delivering mission-critical solutions. This onsite role at Scott AFB in Illinois requires an active Secret clearance and relocation assistance.

You will build Elastic environments from scratch, deploy Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK), and own production-grade clusters, ingest pipelines, and IAM-based security across large-scale deployments.

Qualifications

• Strong platform engineering experience building Elastic environments from scratch.
• Hands-on Elastic/Elasticsearch and Kubernetes at production scale.
• Experience with IAM policies, ingest pipelines, and security integrations.
• Active Secret clearance or higher and onsite work at Scott AFB.

Responsibilities

• Build, deploy, and own Elastic environments and custom clusters.
• Deploy Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK) including Operator/Helm deployments.
• Manage day-to-day Elastic platform operations, performance, and reliability.
• Build and configure ingest pipelines and integrations (Cribl where applicable).
• Implement IAM policies and platform security across large-scale environments.

Skills

Elastic/Elasticsearch

Kubernetes

ECK

IAM security

Platform engineering

Cribl experience

Rancher

Splunk-to-Elastic migration

Security operations

Tools

Kubernetes

ECK

Cribl

Rancher

Splunk

Job description

Zachary Piper Solutions is seeking a Sr. Elastic Engineer to support a leading technology and engineering organization delivering mission-critical solutions across the U.S. Department of Defense, intelligence community, and federal civilian agencies. This role is fully onsite at Scott AFB in Illinois (No Flexibility, relocation assistance provided) and requires an active Secret clearance or higher*

The ideal Sr. Elastic Engineer should be able to build and deploy Elastic environments from scratch, understand Kubernetes and ECK, and have the platform engineering experience to own the environment through ongoing operations and maintenance. They should also have experience supporting production-scale Elastic clusters, ingest pipelines and integrations, and IAM/security within the platform.

Responsibilities of the Sr. Elastic Engineer

• Build, deploy, and own Elastic environments and custom clusters across production Kubernetes environments.
• Deploy and manage Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK), including ECK Operator/Helm-based deployments and containerized infrastructure.
• Manage day-to-day Elastic platform operations, maintenance, performance, scalability, and reliability after deployment.
• Build and configure custom ingest pipelines and integrations, including Cribl where applicable.
• Implement and manage IAM policies and platform security across large-scale environments.

Qualifications for the Sr. Elastic Engineer

• Strong platform engineering experience building and managing Elastic environments from scratch through ongoing production operations.
• Hands-on Elastic/Elasticsearch and Kubernetes experience, including custom cluster deployments at meaningful production scale.
• Working knowledge of ECK and ability to explain its architecture, deployment, and operation; direct ECK Operator experience preferred.
• Experience with IAM policies, ingest pipelines, pipeline integrations, and containerization.
• Active Secret clearance or higher*
• Ability & Willingness to work fully onsite at Scott AFB in Illinois*
• Highly Preferred:
  • Cribl, Rancher, ECE/ECH, Splunk-to-Elastic migration, and Elastic security experience are preferred.

Compensation for the Sr. Elastic Engineer

• Salary Range: Up to $300,000 *depending on experience*
• Comprehensive Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, 401k Plan, PTO, Holidays, Sick Leave if required by law

This job opens for applications on 09/16. Applications for this job will be accepted for at least 30 days from the posting date.