Senior Infrastructure & Platform Engineer
About The Position
ECS is seeking a Senior Infrastructure & Platform Engineer for its Professional Services team. This remote position is contingent upon additional funding. The engineer works directly with federal and commercial customers to design, deploy, configure, optimize, and support enterprise platforms, including Elastic, compliance automation, observability, cybersecurity, and cloud-native technologies. The role combines hands-on engineering with customer-facing consulting. It involves providing architecture guidance, executing deployments, enabling customers, optimizing platforms, troubleshooting complex environments, and transferring knowledge across enterprise data centers, cloud, hybrid, classified, and air-gapped networks. The position includes onsite customer engagements and domestic and international travel. The salary range is $130,000–$175,000. An active Top Secret clearance and a U.S. passport are required.
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 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 onsite customer engagements, including installations, 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.
- Support 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 improvements to scalability, reliability, security, and operational efficiency.
- Lead technical reviews and advise customers during deployment and modernization efforts.
- Maintain deployment documentation, architecture diagrams, standard operating procedures, runbooks, and knowledge base content.
- Travel domestically and internationally for customer deployments and workshops.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
