Senior Elastic Engineer

Job description

Everforth ECS Federal is seeking a Senior Elastic Engineer to support enterprise observability modernization and migration initiatives within a f ederal 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 a...