Sr. Elastic Platform Engineer

Zachary Piper Solutions is seeking a Senior Elastic Engineer to support a fully funded, mission-critical government modernization initiative located at Scott Air Force Base, IL. This senior engineering role will serve as a key contributor in a large-scale migration from Splunk to Elastic, designing and implementing secure, scalable Elastic environments supporting enterprise security operations.
This role is fully on-site at Scott AFB in Illinois and requires an active Top Secret security clearance.

• Design, deploy, and manage enterprise Elastic clusters supporting large-scale security logging and SIEM operations.
• Lead the migration of security monitoring capabilities from Splunk to Elastic, ensuring a seamless transition and optimized platform performance.
• Design and implement custom data ingestion pipelines tailored to enterprise security and operational requirements.
• Configure and manage Index Lifecycle Management (ILM) policies to optimize data retention, storage, and performance.
• Deploy, configure, and maintain Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK) environments using Kubernetes operators.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex Elastic, Kubernetes, and data ingestion issues across production environments.
• Collaborate with engineering, cybersecurity, and infrastructure teams to develop secure, scalable Elastic architectures.
• Continuously optimize Elastic environments to improve reliability, performance, scalability, and operational efficiency.

• Strong hands-on experience engineering, deploying, and administering enterprise Elastic environments.
• Experience designing and implementing custom Elastic data ingestion pipelines beyond standard out-of-the-box configurations.
• Strong knowledge of Index Lifecycle Management (ILM), security log ingestion, and Elastic cluster administration.
• Deep Kubernetes experience, including deploying and managing Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK) using Kubernetes operators.
• Experience troubleshooting and optimizing complex Elastic deployments in enterprise production environments.
• Ability to independently design, implement, and secure Elastic architectures supporting large-scale environments.
• Active Top Secret security clearance (with TS/SCI eligibility)
• Ability to work onsite five days per week in Scott Air Force Base, IL.

• Experience leading or supporting migrations from Splunk to Elastic.
• Experience supporting enterprise SIEM and security logging environments.
• Experience supporting federal government or Department of Defense environments.

• Salary Range: $190,000 - $240,000
  * depending on experience*
• Comprehensive Benefits:
  Medical, Dental, Vision, 401k Plan, PTO, Holidays, Sick Leave if required by law

This job opens for applications on 07/16. Applications for this job will be accepted for at least 30 days from the posting date.