Senior Infrastructure & Platform Engineer

ECS is seeking a Senior Infrastructure & Platform Engineer to work remotely
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This position is contingent upon additional funding. Are you passionate about deploying enterprise platforms, solving complex technical challenges, and helping customers operationalize mission‑critical technologies? Join ECS, a leading provider of cloud, AI, cybersecurity, data, and enterprise transformation solutions.

We are seeking a Senior Infrastructure & Platform Engineer to join our Professional Services team. In this role, you will work 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 ideal candidate is a hands‑on engineer with strong Linux, Windows, networking, and infrastructure expertise who enjoys working directly with customers, traveling onsite, troubleshooting complex environments, and leading successful technology implementations.

This position requires a technical consultant mindset and the ability to balance architecture guidance, deployment execution, customer enablement, platform optimization, and knowledge transfer across a variety of customer environments ranging from enterprise data centers to cloud, classified, and air‑gapped networks.

• Design, deploy, configure, and maintain enterprise software platforms within 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 platform installations, technical workshops, discovery sessions, deployment planning, assessments, and knowledge transfer activities.
• Configure integrations, ingestion pipelines, dashboards, automation workflows, reporting capabilities, and operational tooling.
• Troubleshoot platform, infrastructure, networking, operating system, and application‑level issues across enterprise environments.
• Support customers implementing security hardening initiatives, configuration baselines, operational policies, and platform best practices.
• Develop automation solutions using Power Shell, Bash, Python, Ansible, Terraform, and related technologies.
• Collaborate with administrators, architects, security teams, engineering teams, and executive stakeholders to successfully operationalize deployed technologies.
• Provide recommendations for scalability, reliability, security, and operational efficiency.
• Lead technical reviews and serve as a trusted advisor throughout deployment and modernization efforts.
• Maintain deployment documentation, architecture diagrams, standard operating procedures, runbooks, and knowledge base content.
• Support domestic and international travel requirements associated with customer deployments and workshops.

Salary Range: $130,000-$175,000

• Active Top Secret Clearance required, at minimum.
• U.S. Passport required.
• 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…