ECS is seeking a Senior Infrastructure & Platform Engineer to work remotely. Please Note: This position is contingent upon additional funding.
Are you passionate about deploying enterprise platforms, solving complex technical challenges, and helping customers operationalize mission-critical technologies? Join ECS, a leading provider of cloud, AI, cybersecurity, data, and enterprise transformation solutions.
We are seeking a Senior Infrastructure & Platform Engineer to join our Professional Services team. In this role, you will work directly with federal and commercial customers to design, deploy, configure, optimize, and support enterprise platforms including Elastic, compliance automation solutions, observability platforms, cybersecurity tools, and cloud-native technologies.
The ideal candidate is a hands-on engineer with strong Linux, Windows, networking, and infrastructure expertise who enjoys working directly with customers, traveling onsite, troubleshooting complex environments, and leading successful technology implementations.
This position requires a technical consultant mindset and the ability to balance architecture guidance, deployment execution, customer enablement, platform optimization, and knowledge transfer across a variety of customer environments ranging from enterprise data centers to cloud, classified, and air-gapped networks.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, deploy, configure, and maintain enterprise software platforms within customer environments.
- Implement and optimize Elastic Stack environments including Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, Beats, Fleet, and Elastic Security.
- Deploy and support cybersecurity, compliance automation, observability, search, analytics, and infrastructure platforms across on-premises, cloud, hybrid, classified, and disconnected environments.
- Lead customer-facing onsite engagements including platform installations, technical workshops, discovery sessions, deployment planning, assessments, and knowledge transfer activities.
- Configure integrations, ingestion pipelines, dashboards, automation workflows, reporting capabilities, and operational tooling.
- Troubleshoot platform, infrastructure, networking, operating system, and application-level issues across enterprise environments.
- Support customers implementing security hardening initiatives, configuration baselines, operational policies, and platform best practices.
- Develop automation solutions using PowerShell, Bash, Python, Ansible, Terraform, and related technologies.
- Collaborate with administrators, architects, security teams, engineering teams, and executive stakeholders to successfully operationalize deployed technologies.
- Provide recommendations for scalability, reliability, security, and operational efficiency.
- Lead technical reviews and serve as a trusted advisor throughout deployment and modernization efforts.
- Maintain deployment documentation, architecture diagrams, standard operating procedures, runbooks, and knowledge base content.
- Support domestic and international travel requirements associated with customer deployments and workshops
Salary Range: $130,000-$175,000
General Description of Benefits
Preferred Qualifications- Active Top Secret Clearance required, at minimum.
- U.S. Passport required.
- Strong experience administering Linux operating systems.
- Strong experience administering Windows Server environments.
- Experience deploying, configuring, and supporting enterprise software platforms.
- Strong understanding of TCP/IP networking, routing, switching, DNS, VPNs, firewalls, and enterprise network architecture.
- Hands-on experience with Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, Beats, Fleet) or comparable enterprise platforms.
- Experience troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems and production enterprise applications.
- Strong customer-facing consulting and Professional Services experience.
- Experience deploying software in on-premises, cloud, GovCloud, hybrid, classified, or disconnected environments.
- Experience with virtualization technologies including VMware, Hyper-V, OpenShift, Kubernetes, Docker, or related platforms.
- Strong scripting and automation skills using PowerShell, Bash, Python, or similar technologies.
- Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to administrators, engineers, and executive stakeholders.
- Ability to lead customer workshops, training sessions, and deployment engagements.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Willingness and ability to travel domestically and internationally.
Skills Required
- Active Top Secret clearance
- U.S. Passport
- Strong Linux administration experience
- Strong Windows Server administration experience
- Experience deploying, configuring, and supporting enterprise software platforms
- Strong understanding of TCP/IP networking, routing, switching, DNS, VPNs, firewalls, and enterprise network architecture
- Hands-on experience with Elastic Stack or comparable enterprise platforms
- Experience troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems and production enterprise applications
- Strong customer-facing consulting and Professional Services experience
- Experience deploying software in on-premises, cloud, GovCloud, hybrid, classified, or disconnected environments
- Experience with virtualization technologies including VMware, Hyper-V, OpenShift, Kubernetes, or Docker
- Strong scripting and automation skills using PowerShell, Bash, Python, or similar technologies
- Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to administrators, engineers, and executive stakeholders
- Ability to lead customer workshops, training sessions, and deployment engagements
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Willingness and ability to travel domestically and internationally
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.
