Sr. Elastic Engineer

Zachary Piper Solutions is seeking a Sr. Elastic Engineer to support a company focused on delivering secure, mission‑critical infrastructure solutions across federal and defense environments. This position is onsite at Langley AFB, VA
. The Sr. Elastic Engineer will operate and scale enterprise Elastic Stack environments while ensuring reliability, performance, and security across distributed systems. Join a mission where your work directly supports national security and resilient, high‑availability operations.

• Operate and support large‑scale Elastic Stack environments (search, logging, observability)
• Manage Kubernetes‑based Elastic deployments, with a focus on ECK
• Build automation for deployments, monitoring, and incident response workflows
• Integrate Elastic with SIEM/EDR and security tooling (e.g., Splunk, Crowd Strike)
• Troubleshoot production issues and implement observability frameworks (logs, metrics, tracing)

• 5+ years of experience in SRE/Dev Ops or platform engineering within production environments
• Strong experience with Elastic Stack (enterprise‑scale deployments)
• Proficiency with Kubernetes (ECK preferred), Linux/Unix systems, and networking fundamentals
• Experience with observability platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure‑as‑code tools
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience)
• Active or eligible for Secret Clearance

• Salary Range: $180,000 – $200,000 depending on experience
• Full Benefits Package

Elastic Stack, Elasticsearch, Kubernetes, ECK, Site Reliability Engineer, SRE, Dev Ops, Observability, Logging, SIEM, Splunk, Crowd Strike, Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD, Linux, Distributed Systems, Gov Cloud, DoD, Federal, Secret Clearance