Senior Elastic Engineer

ECS Tech Inc•Arlington, VA

1d•$108,000 - $163,000

About The Position

Everforth ECS is seeking a skilled Senior Elastic Engineer to influence the design, operation, and evolution of our enterprise Elastic SIEM solution. This role is central to ensuring the platform remains secure, highly available, and optimized to support mission-critical analytics, search, observability, and security workloads across the organization. The Senior Elastic Engineer will work collaboratively as part of a dedicated engineering team, serving as a technical leader in guidance, mentorship, and influence within the Elastic Stack. They will proactively detect problems, identify emerging risks, and implement preventative measures to maintain a stable and resilient environment. A core responsibility of this role is to drive thoughtful solution execution that simplifies operations and improves reliability. The Elastic Engineer will participate in change control processes, maintain rigorous configuration management practices, and ensure the platform adheres to security and compliance standards. They will also support adjacent teams including SRE, DevOps, and Security while providing guidance on best practices for data ingestion, dashboards, and alerts. This role will also partner closely with the Elastic vendor, engaging in support escalations, roadmap discussions, and collaborative planning around product innovation and new use cases. The Elastic Engineer will help ensure ECS leverages emerging platform capabilities, stays aligned with best practices to continuously improve the platform maturity through a strong vendor relationship. The ideal candidate will bring strong experience in creative thinking and client facing solution execution using the Elastic Stack to enable stakeholders to transform platform data into meaningful insights. Ultimately, the Elastic Engineer will contribute to a culture of continuous improvement, advancing ECS’s Elastic capabilities to deliver a robust, scalable, and high-performing platform.

Requirements

US citizenship with ability to obtain and maintain Public Trust Suitability
7+ years of Elasticsearch, Elastic Security or equivalent products in the Elastic Stack
Experience managing data ingestion for Elasticsearch use cases
Experience with monitoring the Elastic Stack and resolving common issues
Experience with process control improvement
Comfortable leveraging Elastic APIs through Dev Tools and/or ad-hoc Scripting
Strong communication skills with ability to translate difficult technical discussion into business language
Skilled at designing clear, efficient technical delivery plans that drive high-quality outcomes and predictable execution

Responsibilities

Influence the design, operation, and evolution of the enterprise Elastic SIEM solution.
Ensure the platform remains secure, highly available, and optimized for analytics, search, observability, and security workloads.
Serve as a technical leader in guidance, mentorship, and influence within the Elastic Stack.
Proactively detect problems, identify emerging risks, and implement preventative measures.
Drive thoughtful solution execution to simplify operations and improve reliability.
Participate in change control processes.
Maintain rigorous configuration management practices.
Ensure the platform adheres to security and compliance standards.
Support adjacent teams (SRE, DevOps, Security) and provide guidance on best practices for data ingestion, dashboards, and alerts.
Partner closely with the Elastic vendor for support escalations, roadmap discussions, and collaborative planning.
Ensure ECS leverages emerging platform capabilities and stays aligned with best practices.
Enable stakeholders to transform platform data into meaningful insights.
Contribute to a culture of continuous improvement and advance ECS’s Elastic capabilities.