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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Secret Elastic SRE / Observability Engineer - **Company:** Zachary Piper - **Location:** Virginia Beach, VA, United States - **Salary:** $180,000.0 - $200,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** DevOps, Distributed Systems, Elasticsearch, Monitoring of Systems, Networking Basics, Reliability Engineering, Ansible, Security Information and Event Management, Data Logging, Kubernetes, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Terraform, Splunk - **Published:** June 29, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.clearancejobs.com/jobs/9001315/secret-elastic-sre-observability-engineer ## About the Role Piper Companies is seeking an Elastic SRE / Observability Engineer to support a federal technology and defense environment focused on mission-critical platform reliability and security. The Elastic SRE / Observability Engineer role is ideal for an experienced engineer with strong expertise in Elastic Stack, Kubernetes, and site reliability engineering who thrives in highly secure, production-grade environments., * Strong experience with Elastic Stack in enterprise or production environments. * Hands-on expertise with Kubernetes; ECK operator experience highly preferred. * Strong Linux/Unix administration and networking fundamentals. * Proven experience in SRE or DevOps roles supporting production systems. * Experience building and supporting observability and monitoring frameworks. * Ability to troubleshoot distributed system issues within secure environments. * Experience with infrastructure automation tools such as Terraform or Ansible preferred. * Familiarity with SIEM and EDR tools such as Splunk, CrowdStrike, or Trellix is a plus. * Experience working in federal, defense, or regulated environments preferred. * Strong incident response mindset with the ability to perform under pressure. * Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate across cross-functional technical teams. * Ability to work onsite in a hybrid environment (Hanscom AFB, MA or Langley AFB, VA). * Eligibility to obtain or maintain a Secret security clearance required. ## Description * Operate and support large-scale Elastic Stack environments across search, logging, and observability use cases. * Ensure platform reliability, uptime, scalability, and performance across mission-critical production systems. * Manage and maintain Kubernetes-based Elastic deployments (ECK preferred). * Develop automation for deployment, monitoring, and incident response workflows. * Integrate Elastic Stack with SIEM and security tools such as Splunk, EDR platforms, and telemetry systems. * Troubleshoot complex issues across distributed systems and resolve production incidents. * Implement and enhance observability frameworks including logs, metrics, and tracing. * Support CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code practices. * Maintain runbooks, documentation, and escalation procedures for operational continuity. * Participate in on-call rotations and incident response activities. * Update and manage data collectors across clusters and coordinate cluster maintenance activities. * Create visualizations, dashboards, and monitoring tools to track performance and network behavior. ## Related Videos - [From DevOps to Scaled DevOps: How We’re Rebuilding Continuous Delivery as a Platform](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100018-from-devops-to-scaled-devops-how-we-re-rebuilding-continuous-delivery-as-a-platform) - [Our journey with Spring Boot in a microservice architecture](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/511-our-journey-with-spring-boot-in-a-microservice-architecture) - [Dev & Test in the Cloud? 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