Sr. Elastic Engineer - 174919

Piper Companies; Illinois; On-site; USD 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Comprehensive benefits

Fully onsite at Scott AFB

Job summary

Zachary Piper Solutions is seeking a Sr. Elastic Engineer to support a leading technology and defense organization delivering mission-critical solutions across the U.S.

Department of Defense, intelligence community, and federal civilian agencies. This role is onsite at Scott AFB in Illinois, with relocation assistance provided and an active Secret clearance or higher* The ideal candidate will build and deploy Elastic environments from scratch, manage Kubernetes and ECK, and own the environment

Qualifications

• Strong platform engineering experience building Elastic environments from scratch and managing production systems.
• Hands-on Elastic/Elasticsearch and Kubernetes experience with production-scale deployments.
• Experience with ECK architecture, deployment, and operation; direct ECK Operator experience preferred.
• Experience with IAM policies, ingest pipelines, pipeline integrations, and containerization.
• Active Secret clearance or higher; willingness to work onsite at Scott AFB, Illinois.

Responsibilities

• 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 deployments and containerized infrastructure.
• Manage day-to-day Elastic platform operations, 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.

Skills

Elastic/Elasticsearch

Kubernetes

ECK

IAM/security

Security clearance

On-site work

Tools

Cribl

Rancher

ECE/ECH

Splunk-to-Elastic migration

Elastic security tooling

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.