Senior Infrastructure & Platform Engineer

ECS Tech Inc•Work from home, Virginia

1d•$130,000 - $175,000•Remote

About The Position

ECS is seeking a Senior Infrastructure & Platform Engineer to join its Professional Services team. The role works directly with federal and commercial customers to design, deploy, configure, optimize, and support enterprise platforms, including Elastic, compliance automation solutions, observability platforms, cybersecurity tools, and cloud-native technologies. The position calls for a hands-on engineer with Linux, Windows, networking, and infrastructure expertise who can work directly with customers, travel onsite, troubleshoot complex environments, and lead technology implementations. The engineer balances architecture guidance, deployment execution, customer enablement, platform optimization, and knowledge transfer across enterprise data centers, cloud, classified, and air-gapped networks. The position is contingent upon additional funding.

Requirements

Active Top Secret clearance, at minimum.
U.S. passport.
Strong experience administering Linux operating systems.
Strong experience administering Windows Server environments.
Experience deploying, configuring, and supporting enterprise software platforms.
Strong understanding of TCP/IP networking, routing, switching, DNS, VPNs, firewalls, and enterprise network architecture.
Hands-on experience with Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, Beats, Fleet) or comparable enterprise platforms.
Experience troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems and production enterprise applications.
Strong customer-facing consulting and Professional Services experience.
Experience deploying software in on-premises, cloud, GovCloud, hybrid, classified, or disconnected environments.
Experience with virtualization technologies such as VMware, Hyper-V, OpenShift, Kubernetes, Docker, or related platforms.
Strong scripting and automation skills using PowerShell, Bash, Python, or similar technologies.
Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to administrators, engineers, and executive stakeholders.
Ability to lead customer workshops, training sessions, and deployment engagements.
Strong verbal and written communication skills.
Willingness and ability to travel domestically and internationally.

Responsibilities

Design, deploy, configure, and maintain enterprise software platforms in customer environments.
Implement and optimize Elastic Stack environments, including Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, Beats, Fleet, and Elastic Security.
Deploy and support cybersecurity, compliance automation, observability, search, analytics, and infrastructure platforms across on-premises, cloud, hybrid, classified, and disconnected environments.
Lead customer-facing onsite engagements, including installations, technical workshops, discovery sessions, deployment planning, assessments, and knowledge transfer.
Configure integrations, ingestion pipelines, dashboards, automation workflows, reporting capabilities, and operational tooling.
Troubleshoot platform, infrastructure, networking, operating system, and application-level issues in enterprise environments.
Support customer security hardening initiatives, configuration baselines, operational policies, and platform best practices.
Develop automation solutions using PowerShell, Bash, Python, Ansible, Terraform, and related technologies.
Collaborate with administrators, architects, security and engineering teams, and executive stakeholders to operationalize deployed technologies.
Recommend ways to improve scalability, reliability, security, and operational efficiency.
Lead technical reviews and serve as a trusted advisor during deployment and modernization efforts.
Maintain deployment documentation, architecture diagrams, standard operating procedures, runbooks, and knowledge base content.
Meet domestic and international travel requirements associated with customer deployments and workshops.