ECS is seeking a Sr Elastic Engineer to support AESS remotely.
As a leading provider of managed cybersecurity services, ECS provides a highly tailored and customized offering to each customer. Our team is responsible for protecting both our customers and corporate environment at ECS. Our mission is very broad, and our team is agile. We will look toward your unique skills to approach and solve problems in your own way. Whether engineering a system to address a technical hurdle, protecting customers data or consulting on a wide range of security topics. You are empowered to engage and lead across multiple groups.
This role of Senior Elastic Engineer will support ECS's Army Endpoint Security Solution (AESS) program. This is a technical hands-on role to which you will be responsible for working within a multi-disciplined team to design, build, secure, maintain, optimize, and document multiple Elastic deployed globally in a Federal DoD environment. These deployments leverage the full Elastic Stack of capabilities such as Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Beats, Machine Learning, SIEM, and Fleet. Along with third-party technologies like Confluent Kafka. You will provide continuous data normalization support functions and support the delivery of written technical deliverables such as SOPs and/or process workflows to optimize tool usage and contribute to new capabilities.
Responsibilities:
- Design, deploy, configure, and maintain Elastic stack and Confluent Kafka deployments.
- Manage, patch, and upgrade Elasticsearch, Confluent and other related systems.
- Tune and optimize Elastic stack deployments based on application/customer needs.
- Design and configure ETL data pipelines to ingest customer defined data sets such as application logs, metrics, and or threat events.
- Create custom visualizations and dashboards using Kibana.
- Configure and maintain index templates and information lifecycle management (ILM) policies.
- Develop Elastic alerting solutions using Watcher and/or Kibana Rules and Connectors with integrations to ticketing systems, email, and messaging apps as required.
- Develop Machine Learning (ML) jobs to dynamically monitor and alert on identified metrics, KPIs, and/or data anomalies.
- Follow ITIL based change management processes to move solutions from Dev to Test and into Production
Salary Range: $120,000 - $200,000
General Description of Benefits
Preferred Qualifications- Minimum Top-Secret clearance is required, can start with Secret.
- Compliance with DoD 8140 / 8570 IAT Level II certification prior to start date.
- Certified Elastic Engineer or willingness to gain certification within 90 days of hire.
- At least 5 years’ hands-on experience in deployment, configuration, and solution development using the Elastic Stack for security and logging use-cases. Specific experience with Elastic SIEM is plus.
- Demonstrated experience with the full Elastic Stack - Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Beats, Machine Learning, and REST API integration.
Top Skills
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.







