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# Senior Elastic Platform Engineer

- **Company:** Zachary Piper
- **Location:** United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $190,000.0 - $240,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Elasticsearch, Data Ingestion, SC Clearance, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Splunk, Data Pipelines
- **Published:** July 17, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.clearancejobs.com/jobs/9038640/senior-elastic-platform-engineer

## About the Role

* 6+ years of experience with Elastic engineering, platform engineering, or similar roles
 * Strong hands-on experience with Elastic Stack, Kubernetes, and ECK (Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes)
 * Proven ability to design custom ingestion pipelines and solve complex technical challenges
 * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
 * Active Secret clearance

## Description

Zachary Piper Solutions is seeking a to support a company focused on a large-scale government modernization effort migrating from Splunk to Elastic within a containerized, Kubernetes-based environment. This position i at . The will lead the design, deployment, and management of scalable Elastic platforms leveraging Kubernetes and ECK.

 * Design, deploy, and manage Elastic clusters within Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK) environments
 * Build and maintain custom data ingestion pipelines beyond out-of-the-box configurations
 * Implement and manage Index Lifecycle Management (ILM) policies and large-scale logging solutions
 * Support and optimize Kubernetes-based infrastructure for Elastic workloads
 * Troubleshoot and enhance complex Elastic deployments, including Splunk-to-Elastic migration efforts


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