Everforth ECS Federal is seeking a Senior Kibana/Observability Engineer to support development and operationalization of enterprise observability, telemetry visualization, operational analytics, and monitoring capabilities within a federal healthcare environment supporting the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
The Senior Kibana/Observability Engineer will act as the principal subject matter expert for designing, deploying, and maintaining the Elastic Observability solution (Logs, Metrics, APM, and Uptime/Synthetics) across Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) enterprise and cloud environments.
- Must be a US citizen with ability to obtain and maintain a Tier 5 (T5) background investigation (Public Trust Level 5)
- 7+ years of experience supporting observability, monitoring, analytics, or dashboard engineering initiatives with hands-on Kibana dashboard and visualization development experience
- Design and develop native and complex Kibana dashboards, visualizations, analytics workflows, and operational reporting capabilities
- Architect, engineer, and scale Elastic environments specifically tuned for time-series metrics, distributed tracing, and high-volume application logs
- Deploy and instrument Elastic APM agents across diverse application stacks (Java, .NET, Node.js, Python) to trace transactions and isolate performance bottlenecks
- Configure advanced alerting rules and leverage Elastic Machine Learning (anomaly detection) to identify system degradation before it impacts end-users
- Collaborate with engineering and security teams to normalize telemetry and improve observability coverage
- Build intuitive, role-specific Kibana dashboards and Canvas workpads that unify logs, metrics, and traces for rapid root-cause analysis by IT operations
- Monitor system activity and identify anomalous or suspicious operational trends
- Support operational awareness, incident monitoring, and continuous monitoring activities
- Develop reporting and visualization strategies supporting executive and operational stakeholders
- Support implementation and monitoring of Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs)
- Support training and knowledge transfer for operational stakeholders
Salary Range: $140,000-180,000
General Description of Benefits
Preferred Qualifications- 7+ years of experience with a Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Engineering or Computer Science, and/or 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
- Must be a US citizen with ability to obtain and maintain a Tier 5 (Public Trust Level 5) background investigation
- 7+ years experience supporting observability, monitoring, analytics, or dashboard engineering initiatives
- Hands-on Kibana dashboard and visualization development experience
- Design, architect, and scale Elastic environments (Logs, Metrics, APM, Uptime/Synthetics)
- Deploy and instrument Elastic APM agents across application stacks (Java, .NET, Node.js, Python)
- Configure advanced alerting rules and use Elastic Machine Learning for anomaly detection
- Experience building role-specific Kibana dashboards and Canvas workpads for root-cause analysis
- Collaborate with engineering and security teams to normalize telemetry and improve observability coverage
- Support operational awareness, incident monitoring, SLIs/SLOs, and reporting for stakeholders
- Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, IT, Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent experience
- Related certifications (Elastic Certified Engineer/Observability, AWS/Azure security, Security+, CSSIP)
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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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.
