Everforth ECS is seeking a AWS Cloud Elastic Observability Engineer to deploy and support AWS cloud environments for multiple coalition Mission Partner Network enclaves in support of the DoW community. This role is hands-on and focused on automation, including writing infrastructure code, improving deployment pipelines, and helping teams operate more efficiently in the cloud.
We are seeking a skilled AWS Cloud Elastic Observability Engineer to join our ECS Everforth organization. This role focuses on deploying, automating, and maintaining the Elastic Observability stack using containerized environments and configuration management tools like Docker and Ansible. You will work with cross-functional teams to ensure reliable data ingestion, performant dashboards, and high-quality monitoring coverage across distributed systems.
Responsibilities
- Deploy, configure, and maintain Elastic Observability components (Elastic Agent, Beats, Logstash, Kibana, APM).
- Build and manage containerized Elastic environments using Docker (including Compose and containerized pipelines).
- Deploy and operate Elastic components in Kubernetes (ECK, Helm, operators, or custom manifests).
- Maintain and optimize pipelines for logs, metrics, and traces across distributed systems.
- Develop dashboards, alerting rules, and visualizations in Kibana or other observability tools.
- Troubleshoot ingestion issues, mapping problems, parsing failures, and data quality concerns.
- Work with application and infrastructure teams to onboard new services into observability.
- Implement ILM policies, data retention standards, and monitoring best practices.
- Document architectures, SOPs, and engineering workflows.
- Stay current with Elastic features, observability trends, cloud-native monitoring, and automation patterns.
- Other duties, as assigned.
Note: Salary is commensurate with skillset, qualifications, experience, and educational background.
Salary: 140,000-165,000
Preferred Qualifications- U.S. Citizen.
- Active Secret clearance
- Bachelor’s degree and 5+ years of related experience.
- Active a DoD 8140 IAT Level II Security+ (or higher).
- Ability to work up to 3 days a week onsite in Fairfax, VA.
- Strong experience with the Elastic Stack, specifically Elastic Observability (logging, metrics, tracing).
- Hands-on experience with:
- Containerized deployments.
- Kubernetes (ECK, Helm, Operators, or cluster-level operations).
- Strong proficiency with automation and configuration management.
- Solid understanding of Linux systems and networking fundamentals.
- Experience parsing and normalizing log data (pipelines, ingest processors).
- Ability to build and maintain dashboards, alerts, SLO/SLA visibility, and health monitoring.
- Strong problem-solving and decision-making capabilities, with a proven ability to weigh the relative costs and benefits of potential actions and identify the most appropriate solution.
- Highly developed interpersonal and oral/written communication skills, with the ability to effectively and professionally interact with a diverse set of stakeholders (from peers to end-users to executive management).
Skills Required
- U.S. citizenship
- Active Secret clearance
- Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of related experience
- Active DoD 8140 IAT Level II Security+ certification or higher
- Ability to work up to three days per week onsite in Fairfax, Virginia
- Strong experience with the Elastic Stack, especially Elastic Observability for logging, metrics, and tracing
- Hands-on experience with containerized deployments
- Hands-on Kubernetes experience, including ECK, Helm, operators, or cluster-level operations
- Strong proficiency with automation and configuration management
- Solid understanding of Linux systems and networking fundamentals
- Experience parsing and normalizing log data using pipelines and ingest processors
- Ability to build and maintain dashboards, alerts, SLO/SLA visibility, and health monitoring
- Strong problem-solving and decision-making capabilities
- Highly developed interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills
ECS Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about ECS and has not been reviewed or approved by ECS.
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Healthcare Strength — ECS advertises multiple national-network medical plan options with HSA eligibility alongside dental and vision coverage. Coverage generally begins quickly and is paired with company-paid short- and long-term disability, adding stability to the health package.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with Safe Harbor and immediate vesting on employer contributions is emphasized, with an employer match available. Access to an employee stock purchase plan via the parent company provides an additional savings avenue.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave up to 30 days, adoption assistance, and other family-oriented leaves are highlighted. Feedback suggests these offerings add meaningful value beyond base pay for many roles.
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What We Do
ECS, a segment of ASGN (NYSE: ASGN), delivers advanced solutions and services in cloud, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), application and IT modernization, and science and engineering. The company solves critical, complex challenges for customers across the U.S. public sector, defense, intelligence and commercial industries. ECS maintains partnerships with leading cloud, cybersecurity, and AI/ML providers and holds specialized certifications in their technologies. Headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia, ECS has more than 3,400 employees throughout the U.S. and has been recognized as a Top Workplace by The Washington Post for the last five years.
