Elastic Site Reliability Engineer (Secret - Hybrid Remote)
Zachary Piper
Hampton, United States of America
5 days ago
Role details
Contract type
Permanent contract Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours) Working hours
Regular working hours Languages
English Experience level
Senior Compensation
$ 200KJob location
Remote
Hampton, United States of America
Tech stack
DevOps
Distributed Systems
Elasticsearch
Networking Basics
Reliability Engineering
Ansible
Security Information and Event Management
Data Logging
Delivery Pipeline
Kubernetes
Terraform
Splunk
Job description
- Operate, maintain, and optimize large-scale Elastic Stack environments supporting logging, search, observability, and telemetry operations.
- Ensure platform reliability, uptime, scalability, and performance across production mission systems.
- Manage Kubernetes-based Elastic deployments, including ECK operator environments.
- Develop and maintain automation for deployment workflows, monitoring, alerting, and incident response processes.
- Integrate Elastic infrastructure with SIEM and security tooling including Splunk, EDR platforms, and telemetry systems.
- Troubleshoot complex issues across distributed systems, infrastructure, and application environments.
- Implement and support observability frameworks including logging, metrics, tracing, and monitoring solutions.
- Support CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code initiatives within DevOps environments.
- Maintain operational runbooks, escalation procedures, and technical documentation.
- Participate in on-call support rotations and incident response activities.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience supporting Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, or infrastructure operations environments.
- Strong hands-on experience with Elastic Stack in enterprise production environments.
- Advanced Kubernetes experience, including ECK operator deployments.
- Strong Linux/Unix administration and networking fundamentals.
- Experience supporting observability, telemetry, logging, and monitoring platforms.
- Experience working within secure, classified, federal, or highly regulated environments.
- Ability to work onsite at Hanscom AFB (MA) or Langley AFB (VA).
- Must have an active DoD Secret clearance
Desired Skills:
- Elastic certifications including Elastic Engineer, Security, or Observability.
- Experience with Terraform, Ansible, and CI/CD pipeline automation.
- Exposure to SIEM and EDR technologies including Splunk, CrowdStrike, or Trellix.
- Experience supporting GovCloud, DoD, or federal infrastructure environments.
- Prior experience supporting distributed logging or telemetry platforms.