Observability Engineer

ECS Tech Inc•Fairfax, VA

4h•$140,000 - $165,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Everforth ECS Federal is seeking an Observability Engineer to support the development and operationalization of enterprise observability, telemetry visualization, operational analytics, and monitoring capabilities within a federal healthcare environment supporting the DOW. The Kibana/Observability Engineer will act as the principal subject matter expert for designing, deploying, and maintaining the Elastic Observability solution (Logs, Metrics, APM, and Uptime/Synthetics) across Department of DOD/DISA Enterprise and cloud environments.

Requirements

U.S. Citizen.
Active DoD Secret security clearance.
Required active certifications: DoD 8140 IAT Level II Security+ (or higher) or CISSP.
AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer – Associate
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Engineering or Computer Science, 7+ years of experience experience.
Experience with supporting Elastic observability, telemetry analytics (e.g., OpenTelemetry, SIEM/log architectures) and operational monitoring implementations.
Experience developing executive dashboards, operational reporting, and visualization strategies.
Experience with Cloud architecture, system administration, and infrastructure-as-code principles.
Familiarity with SIEM, telemetry analytics, metrics, distributed tracing, and observability concepts.
Knowledge in software engineering and development methodologies (essential for deep APM and code-level tracing).
Ability to apply analytical reasoning to comprehend complex distributed systems, microservices architectures, and telemetry data.
Understanding of Federal cybersecurity and compliance environments preferred.
Excellent written, presentation, and stakeholder engagement skills.
Ability to support 10-15% travel.
Strong problem-solving and decision-making capabilities, with a proven ability to weigh the relative costs and benefits of potential actions and identify the most appropriate solution.
Highly developed interpersonal and oral/written communication skills, with the ability to effectively and professionally interact with a diverse set of stakeholders (from peers to end-users to executive management).

Responsibilities

Design and develop native and complex Kibana dashboards, visualizations, analytics workflows, and operational reporting capabilities.
Architect, engineer, and scale Elastic environments specifically tuned for time-series metrics, distributed tracing, and high-volume application logs.
Deploy and instrument Elastic APM agents across diverse application stacks (Java, .NET, Node.js, Python) to trace transactions and isolate performance bottlenecks.
Configure advanced alerting rules and leverage Elastic Machine Learning (anomaly detection) to identify system degradation before it impacts end-users.
Collaborate with engineering and security teams to normalize telemetry and improve observability coverage.
Build intuitive, role-specific Kibana dashboards and Canvas workpads that unify logs, metrics, and traces for rapid root-cause analysis by IT operations.
Monitor system activity and identify anomalous or suspicious operational trends.
Support operational awareness, incident monitoring, and continuous monitoring activities.
Support implementation and monitoring of Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs).
Support training and knowledge transfer for operational stakeholders.
Develop reporting and visualization strategies supporting executive and operational stakeholders.