Everforth ECS Federal is seeking a Senior Elastic Engineer to support enterprise observability modernization and migration initiatives within a federal healthcare environment supporting the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
The Senior Elastic Engineer serves as a subject matter expert for the design, implementation, and optimization of the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Beats) in support of Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) enterprise networks and cybersecurity operations. This role is critical for establishing robust log aggregation, data analytics, and real-time dashboarding to enhance situational awareness, threat hunting capabilities, and overall cybersecurity posture across VA information systems.
Required Skills:
Must be a US citizen with ability to obtain and maintain a Tier 5 (T5) background investigation (Public Trust Level 5)
Minimum 7 years of experience supporting enterprise logging, SIEM, observability, or cybersecurity engineering platforms
Minimum 5 years of hands-on Elastic Stack engineering experience
Develop and maintain Logstash pipelines and Beats configurations to efficiently route and process high-volume network, security, and application data
Monitor cluster health and optimize indices, shards, and queries for maximum performance and cost-effectiveness
Implement and maintain Elastic Security features (e.g., Role-Based Access Control, TLS encryption) ensuring compliance with VA Handbook 6500 and federal security standards
Analyze operational impacts associated with cybersecurity events, system changes, and platform performance issues with the ability to apply cybersecurity and privacy principles to organizational requirements
Develop and optimize ingestion pipelines, parsers, enrichment workflows, and telemetry normalization strategies
Architect, engineer, and deploy highly available and scalable Elasticsearch clusters across VA enclaves and cloud environments.
Troubleshoot ingestion failures, performance bottlenecks, and observability platform issues
Support Authority to Operate (ATO), Risk Management Framework (RMF), compliance validation, and continuous monitoring activities
Develop technical documentation, operational procedures, and knowledge transfer materials
Provide Tier 3 troubleshooting and act as a technical mentor for junior engineers
Salary Range: $120,000-160,000
General Description of Benefits
Qualifications
7+ years of experience with a Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Engineering or Computer Science, and/or 10+ years of equivalent experience
One or more related certifications preferred:
Elastic Certified Engineer or Elastic Certified Observability Engineer
AWS Certified Security or Microsoft Azure Security Engineer
Security+ or CSSIP
Equivalent cybersecurity or cloud certificates
