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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Elastic Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - **Company:** Zachary Piper - **Location:** Boston, MA, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $180,000.0 - $200,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Unix, Cloud Computing, Cyber Security, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Distributed Systems, Elasticsearch, Linux System Administration, Uptime, Networking Basics, Performance Tuning, Reliability Engineering, Logstash, Ansible, Security Information and Event Management, Data Logging, System Availability, Delivery Pipeline, SC Clearance, Falcon Platform, Kubernetes, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Kibana, Terraform, Splunk, Devsecops - **Published:** May 28, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.clearancejobs.com/jobs/8937773/elastic-site-reliability-engineer-sre ## About the Role * 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). * U.S. Citizenship with ability to obtain or maintain a Secret clearance. Nice-to-Haves: * 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. Soft Skills: * Strong incident response and operational troubleshooting mindset. * Ability to remain calm and effective during production outages or high-pressure situations. * Strong collaboration skills across security, infrastructure, DevOps, and operations teams. * Excellent communication skills for escalation and operational coordination environments. * Self-sufficient and capable of operating independently within classified environments. ## 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., elastic sre, site reliability engineer, elastic stack, elasticsearch, kibana, logstash, beats, observability, telemetry, logging infrastructure, distributed systems, kubernetes, eck, elastic cloud on kubernetes, sre, devops, platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, production support, linux administration, unix systems, networking, monitoring, tracing, metrics, incident response, automation, ci/cd, infrastructure as code, terraform, ansible, cloud infrastructure, distributed logging, telemetry systems, siem, splunk, edr, crowdstrike, trellix, platform reliability, reliability engineering, scalability, uptime, performance tuning, root cause analysis, operational excellence, federal infrastructure, dod, govcloud, classified systems, mission systems, secret clearance, hanscom afb, langley afb, secure environments, production engineering, elastic observability, elastic security, sre engineer, kubernetes engineer, platform sre, enterprise infrastructure, cloud operations, mission critical systems, elastic engineer, telemetry engineer, security operations, devsecops, automation engineer, distributed architecture, operational support ## Related Videos - [Debug a Kubernetes Operator](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/487-debug-a-kubernetes-operator) - [Our journey with Spring Boot in a microservice architecture](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/511-our-journey-with-spring-boot-in-a-microservice-architecture) - [WeAreDevelopers LIVE - Node and Package Security](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/2138-wearedevelopers-live-node-and-package-security) - [SRE Methods In an Agency Environment](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/348-sre-methods-in-an-agency-environment) - [Add Location-based Searching to Site with ElasticSearch](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/77-add-location-based-searching-to-site-with-elasticsearch) - [Serverless Observability: where SLOs meet transforms](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/854-serverless-observability-where-slos-meet-transforms) ## Related Articles - [Is Software Engineering Over-Saturated?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/418-is-software-engineering-over-saturated) - [Highest Paying Tech Companies for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/220-highest-paying-tech-companies-for-developers) - [Fully Remote Software Engineer Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/447-fully-remote-software-engineer-jobs) - [React Developer Salary [2023]](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/198-react-developer-salary-2023) - [Find a Developer Job: 12 Best Job Sites For Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/165-find-a-developer-job-12-best-job-sites-for-developers) - [Dev Digest 134 - Where pixels sing?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/477-dev-digest-134-where-pixels-sing)