Senior Elastic Engineer - Federal Team (Onsite at Scott AFB)

Job Description:

We are seeking a Sr. Elastic Engineer to join our client’s Federal team. This position is 100% onsite at Scott AFB. Relocation assistance is available for this long-term FTE opportunity with our client.

We are seeking candidates with 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, including Elasticsearch, 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, including on-premises, public cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP), GovCloud, and containerized environments (Kubernetes, Docker, OpenShift).

- Leverage automation and orchestration tools such as Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD pipelines, and Docker to manage deployments and operational tasks.

- Integrate Elastic with enterprise tools such as SIEMs, 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.

Required Skills:

- Must have a Secret Clearance

- Elastic Certification is a big plus

- Must have tech stack: Elastic / ECK / Kubernetes - Would consider solid Elastic and Kubernetes exp that doesn't have ECK

- Deep, hands-on expertise with Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, Beats, Fleet).

- Strong scripting and automation skills (Python, PowerShell, Bash, etc.).

- Solid understanding of observability, logging, metrics, and distributed systems.

- Experience designing, deploying, and optimizing production-scale Elastic environments.

- Strong Linux/Unix, networking, and cloud platform knowledge (AWS, Azure, GCP).

- Ability to mentor, guide, and influence engineering teams on Elastic best practices.

- Prior experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or cloud platform roles is a plus.