Everforth ECS Federal is seeking a Senior Elastic Engineer to support enterprise observability modernization and migration initiatives within a federal healthcare environment supporting the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
The Senior Elastic Engineer serves as a subject matter expert for the design, implementation, and optimization of the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Beats) in support of Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) enterprise networks and cybersecurity operations. This role is critical for establishing robust log aggregation, data analytics, and real-time dashboarding to enhance situational awareness, threat hunting capabilities, and overall cybersecurity posture across VA information systems.
Required Skills:
- Must be a US citizen with ability to obtain and maintain a Tier 5 (T5) background investigation (Public Trust Level 5)
- Minimum 7 years of experience supporting enterprise logging, SIEM, observability, or cybersecurity engineering platforms
- Minimum 5 years of hands-on Elastic Stack engineering experience
- Develop and maintain Logstash pipelines and Beats configurations to efficiently route and process high-volume network, security, and application data
- Monitor cluster health and optimize indices, shards, and queries for maximum performance and cost-effectiveness
- Implement and maintain Elastic Security features (e.g., Role-Based Access Control, TLS encryption) ensuring compliance with VA Handbook 6500 and federal security standards
- Analyze operational impacts associated with cybersecurity events, system changes, and platform performance issues with the ability to apply cybersecurity and privacy principles to organizational requirements
- Develop and optimize ingestion pipelines, parsers, enrichment workflows, and telemetry normalization strategies
- Architect, engineer, and deploy highly available and scalable Elasticsearch clusters across VA enclaves and cloud environments.
- Troubleshoot ingestion failures, performance bottlenecks, and observability platform issues
- Support Authority to Operate (ATO), Risk Management Framework (RMF), compliance validation, and continuous monitoring activities
- Develop technical documentation, operational procedures, and knowledge transfer materials
- Provide Tier 3 troubleshooting and act as a technical mentor for junior engineers
Salary Range: $120,000-160,000
General Description of Benefits
Preferred Qualifications- 7+ years of experience with a Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Engineering or Computer Science, and/or 10+ years of equivalent experience
- One or more related certifications preferred:
- Elastic Certified Engineer or Elastic Certified Observability Engineer
- AWS Certified Security or Microsoft Azure Security Engineer
- Security+ or CSSIP
- Equivalent cybersecurity or cloud certificates
Skills Required
- 7 years of experience supporting enterprise logging or cybersecurity engineering platforms
- 5 years of hands-on Elastic Stack engineering experience
- Ability to obtain and maintain Tier 5 background investigation
- Develop and maintain Logstash pipelines and Beats configurations
- Monitor cluster health and optimize indices for performance
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.
