Senior Elastic Engineer

Everforth ECS is seeking a skilled Senior Elastic Engineer to influence the design, operation, and evolution of our enterprise Elastic SIEM solution. This role is central to ensuring the platform remains secure, highly available, and optimized to support mission-critical analytics, search, observability, and security workloads across the organization. 

The Senior Elastic Engineer will work collaboratively as part of a dedicated engineering team, serving as a technical leader in guidance, mentorship, and influence within the Elastic Stack. They will proactively detect problems, identify emerging risks, and implement preventative measures to maintain a stable and resilient environment. 

A core responsibility of this role is to drive thoughtful solution execution that simplifies operations and improves reliability. The Elastic Engineer will participate in change control processes, maintain rigorous configuration management practices, and ensure the platform adheres to security and compliance standards. They will also support adjacent teams including SRE, DevOps, and Security while providing guidance on best practices for data ingestion, dashboards, and alerts. 

This role will also partner closely with the Elastic vendor, engaging in support escalations, roadmap discussions, and collaborative planning around product innovation and new use cases. The Elastic Engineer will help ensure ECS leverages emerging platform capabilities, stays aligned with best practices to continuously improve the platform maturity through a strong vendor relationship. 

The ideal candidate will bring strong experience in creative thinking and client facing solution execution using the Elastic Stack to enable stakeholders to transform platform data into meaningful insights. Ultimately, the Elastic Engineer will contribute to a culture of continuous improvement, advancing ECS’s Elastic capabilities to deliver a robust, scalable, and high-performing platform. 

Salary: $108,000 - $163,000

General Description of Benefits 

• US citizenship with ability to obtain and maintain Public Trust Suitability 
• 4+ years general experience architecting, deploying, and maintaining core facets of the Elastic Stack which include Elasticsearch and Kibana
• 2+ years’ experience with Elastic Agent to include deployment, configuration of agent policies, and troubleshooting common problems

• Experience managing data ingestion for Elasticsearch use cases  

• Experience with monitoring the Elastic Stack and resolving common issues 

• Experience with process control improvement 

• Comfortable leveraging Elastic APIs through Dev Tools and/or ad-hoc Scripting 

• Strong communication skills with ability to translate difficult technical discussion into business language 

• Skilled at designing clear, efficient technical delivery plans that drive high-quality outcomes and predictable execution