Everforth ECS Federal is looking for a motivated Junior to Mid-Level Elastic Engineer to support the design, deployment, and maintenance of secure, scalable Elasticsearch solutions. This role will focus on Elastic Security features, ingestion pipeline development, and compliance with Veterans Affairs and federal cybersecurity standards. The ideal candidate will have foundational Elasticsearch and cybersecurity skills, a willingness to learn advanced concepts, and the ability to work closely with senior engineers in a collaborative environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Assist in implementing and maintaining Elastic Security features (e.g., Role-Based Access Control, TLS encryption) under senior engineer guidance.
- Support analysis of cybersecurity events, system changes, and performance issues, applying basic cybersecurity and privacy principles.
- Help develop and refine ingestion pipelines, parsers, enrichment workflows, and telemetry normalization strategies.
- Participate in the deployment and configuration of Elasticsearch clusters across VA enclaves and cloud environments.
- Troubleshoot ingestion issues, performance slowdowns, and observability platform alerts with escalation support.
- Contribute to ATO, RMF, compliance validation, and continuous monitoring activities.
- Assist in creating technical documentation, operational procedures, and training materials.
- Provide Tier 2–3 troubleshooting support and learn from senior technical team members.
Salary Range: $100,000 - 130,000
General Description of Benefits
- Must be a U.S. citizen eligible to obtain and maintain a Tier 5 (critical sensitive national security) background investigation.
- Minimum 2 years of experience supporting enterprise logging, SIEM, observability, or cybersecurity engineering platforms
- Minimum 2 years of hands-on Elastic Stack engineering experience
- Minimum 2 years working with languages like Python, C++, JavaScript, and PowerShell to automate tasks, analyze malware and develop security tools and practices
- Exposure to large-scale data ingestion, telemetry normalization, or analytics platforms.
- Basic understanding of incident handling methodologies for log data.
- Familiarity with Linux administration, scripting, and automation.
- Strong problem-solving skills and eagerness to learn new technologies.
- Good written and verbal communication skills.
Skills Required
- U.S. citizen eligible to obtain and maintain a Tier 5 (critical sensitive national security) background investigation
- Minimum 2 years supporting enterprise logging, SIEM, observability, or cybersecurity engineering platforms
- Minimum 2 years hands-on Elastic Stack engineering experience
- Minimum 2 years using Python, C++, JavaScript, and PowerShell for automation or security tooling
- Familiarity with Linux administration, scripting, and automation
- Exposure to large-scale data ingestion, telemetry normalization, or analytics platforms
- Basic understanding of incident handling methodologies for log data
- Good written and verbal communication skills
- Strong problem-solving skills and eagerness to learn new technologies
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.
