Highlights
The Senior Elastic Engineer serves as a subject matter expert for the design, implementation, and optimization of the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Beats) in support of Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) enterprise networks and cybersecurity operations. This role is critical for establishing robust log aggregation, data analytics, and real-time dashboarding to enhance situational awareness, threat hunting capabilities, and overall cybersecurity posture across VA information systems.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Washington, DC |
| Industry | Staffing/Employment Agencies |
| Salary | $140,000–$180,000 Per Year |
| Company Size | 50 to 99 employees |
| Year Founded | 2000 |
| Website | http://www.ecs-federal.com/ |
Description
Everforth ECS Federal is seeking a Senior Elastic Engineer to work remotely.
Everforth ECS Federal is seeking a Senior Elastic Engineer to support enterprise observability modernization and migration initiatives within a federal healthcare environment supporting the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
The Senior Elastic Engineer serves as a subject matter expert for the design, implementation, and optimization of the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Beats) in support of Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) enterprise networks and cybersecurity operations. This role is critical for establishing robust log aggregation, data analytics, and real-time dashboarding to enhance situational awareness, threat hunting capabilities, and overall cybersecurity posture across VA information systems.
Required Skills:
- Must be a US citizen with ability to obtain and maintain a Tier 5 (T5) background investigation (Public Trust Level 5)
- Minimum 7 years of experience supporting enterprise logging, SIEM, observability, or cybersecurity engineering platforms
- Minimum 5 years of hands-on Elastic Stack engineering experience
- Develop and maintain Logstash pipelines and Beats configurations to efficiently route and process high-volume network, security, and application data
- Monitor cluster health and optimize indices, shards, and queries for maximum performance and cost-effectiveness
- Implement and maintain Elastic Security features (e.g., Role-Based Access Control, TLS encryption) ensuring compliance with VA Handbook 6500 and federal security standards
- Analyze operational impacts associated with cybersecurity events, system changes, and platform performance issues with the ability to apply cybersecurity and privacy principles to organizational requirements
- Develop and optimize ingestion pipelines, parsers, enrichment workflows, and telemetry normalization strategies
- Architect, engineer, and deploy highly available and scalable Elasticsearch clusters across VA enclaves and cloud environments.
- Troubleshoot ingestion failures, performance bottlenecks, and observability platform issues
- Support Authority to Operate (ATO), Risk Management Framework (RMF), compliance validation, and continuous monitoring activities
- Develop technical documentation, operational procedures, and knowledge transfer materials
- Provide Tier 3 troubleshooting and act as a technical mentor for junior engineers
Salary Range: $140,000-180,000
General Description of Benefits
About Company
ECS was founded in 2001 by experienced IT professionals with a commitment to quality processes, people and performance. Led by our Chairman, Roy Kapani, and an experienced executive leadership team, ECS provides our customers with solutions and services that support their critical needs and further mission objectives. This commitment has paved the way for expansive growth, year over year.
ECS gained market share in 2011 in the Department of Defense and Federal spaces through both organic and acquisition growth. In May, ECS completed its first strategic acquisition with the purchase of OAK Management, Inc., a leading provider of marine environmental services, ship systems engineering, maritime consulting and platform acquisition management. The OAK acquisition kicked off ECS’ intention to add tactical acquisitions as a part of its long term strategy to supplement and expand upon organic growth and to build enterprise value. ECS closed out 2011 with the acquisition of Paradigm Technologies, Inc. The Paradigm transaction added approximately 200 employees to ECS’ existing 900+ employees. Paradigm also added new Defense clients for ECS, including the Missile Defense Agency, the Navy’s Program Executive Officer for Integrated Warfare Systems, the United States Marine Corps, and the U.S. Marshals Service.
In 2012, ECS completed the acquisition of iLuMinA Solutions, Inc. iLuMinA brings large-scale Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software implementation and infrastructure design and development to ECS’ expanding capabilities.
ECS will continue to invest in corporate infrastructure and quality processes as we grow and enhance our ability to offer professional excellence to both our customers and our employees.
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