Senior Platform Enablement Engineer - Observability

NRECA•Arlington, VA

3d•$158,000 - $195,000•Hybrid

About The Position

NRECA is a unique national trade association providing advocacy, financial services and business support services to over 900 consumer owned electric cooperatives across the country. NRECA employees are united by our mission, inclusive culture, collaborative workplace and commitment to service excellence. As a “best place to work” employer, we operate with integrity, transparency and a spirit of innovation. Join IT at NRECA where we are more than a team, we are a community. Guided by the core tenets of Simplicity, Security, Continuity, Transparency, and Flexibility, we strive to deliver business value through collaboration, ideation, and innovation. Become an integral part of a community driven to continuously improve our processes and transform how we work – in partnership with our colleagues and in service to our members. Position Summary: We are looking for a savvy engineer who will provide technical leadership in enabling enterprise software delivery through shared platforms, automation, and DevOps practices. They will focus on designing and evolving platform capabilities that improve reliability, security, and consistency across development and operational teams, while enabling application teams to adopt observability solutions such as the ELK Stack for logging, monitoring, and application performance monitoring. This position is eligible for NRECA’s hybrid schedule which allows flexibility to work from home up to 2 days per/week.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science/Information Systems Technology or 10+ years equivalent experience.
8+ years of experience with enterprise platforms
8+ years in software engineering, cloud infrastructure engineering, platform engineering, or DevOps practices.
Professional certifications related to cloud platforms, DevOps practices, security, or architecture.
Demonstrated experience driving adoption of shared platforms across multiple teams, including influencing standards, onboarding, and change management.
Experience aligning observability solutions with security, compliance, and operational requirements (e.g., handling sensitive or regulated data in logs).
Deep expertise with Elasticsearch and the ELK Stack, including cluster design, indexing strategies, performance tuning, data retention, and scaling in enterprise environments.

Responsibilities

Advises and supports application teams as a subject matter expert on application observability, guiding effective adoption of logging and monitoring tools and techniques, including Elasticsearch, and resolving technical design tradeoffs.
Owns and evolves the enterprise Elasticsearch (ELK Stack) platform, including architecture, configuration standards, and operational best practices.
Enables adoption of Elasticsearch through reference architectures, onboarding patterns, documentation, and hands-on guidance.
Leads and coordinates cross-team technical initiatives to deliver platform capabilities including application performance monitoring, enhanced support and troubleshooting, automated controls, and developer workflow improvements.
Improves mean time to detection (MTTD) and mean time to resolution (MTTR) through standardized observability practices and platform capabilities.
Designs and implements shared DevOps platform capabilities, including CI/CD templates, infrastructure-as-code frameworks, cloud platform services, Elasticsearch-based observability solutions (logging, monitoring, tracing, and alerting), and developer automation, to enable consistent adoption across teams.
Develops and standardizes reusable engineering patterns, standards, and “golden paths” that enable consistent development, deployment, and operational practices across the enterprise.
Partners and collaborates with applications, infrastructure, and security teams to align DevOps enablement with enterprise architecture, governance, operational requirements, and business objectives.
Drives improvements in software delivery reliability, security, and consistency through reusable solutions and platform-driven best practices.
Ability to report to the office when required