Senior Elastic Engineer

Zachary Piper Solutions is seeking a Senior Elastic Engineer to support a large-scale federal technology program. This position is Remote. The Senior Elastic Engineer will lead the design, administration, optimization, and evolution of a complex Elastic SIEM environment supporting mission-critical operational and security workloads. This is an opportunity to drive the future of enterprise search and security analytics while influencing platform strategy, innovation, and operational excellence across a high-impact environment.

Responsibilities for the Senior Elastic Engineer include:

• Design, deploy, maintain, and optimize Elastic Stack environments including Elasticsearch, Kibana, and Elastic Agent
• Lead platform reliability efforts through proactive monitoring, troubleshooting, capacity planning, and performance tuning
• Develop and improve data ingestion pipelines, dashboards, alerts, and search capabilities to support operational and security use cases
• Collaborate with SRE, DevOps, Security, and other engineering teams to implement scalable solutions, configuration management practices, and change control processes
• Serve as a technical leader by mentoring team members, supporting vendor escalations, and driving adoption of emerging Elastic and AI-driven platform capabilities

Required Qualifications for the Senior Elastic Engineer include:

• 4+ years of experience architecting, deploying, and maintaining Elastic Stack environments, including Elasticsearch and Kibana
• 2+ years of hands-on experience with Elastic Agent deployment, configuration, policy management, and troubleshooting
• Experience managing data ingestion pipelines and supporting Elasticsearch-based use cases
• Experience monitoring Elastic environments and resolving platform issues
• Experience with process improvement initiatives and operational best practices
• Experience leveraging Elastic APIs through Dev Tools and/or scripting
• Strong communication skills with the ability to translate technical concepts into business-focused discussions
• Experience creating technical delivery plans and executing projects with predictable, high-quality outcomes
• Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust

Preferred Qualifications for the Senior Elastic Engineer include:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field
• Experience leading engineering teams or mentoring junior engineers
• Experience with Kafka-based ingestion architectures
• Experience performing major Elastic Stack upgrades, including version 9.x migrations
• Experience with Elastic Cloud deployments and migrations
• Experience supporting Agile/SAFe environments using Jira, Confluence, or similar ALM tools
• Experience with CI/CD platforms such as Jenkins, GitLab, GitHub Actions, CircleCI, Argo, or similar tools
• Knowledge of disaster recovery, backup strategies, and replication architectures
• Experience supporting large federal programs
• Experience with vector search, semantic search, lexical search, RAG solutions, LLMs, GenAI tools, or agent-based AI architectures
• Elastic certifications or related search platform certifications
• Experience with Enterprise Search, OpenSearch, Solr, Lucene, observability, or cybersecurity data environments

Compensation for the Senior Elastic Engineer includes:

• Salary Range: $109,000 - $152,000 depending on experience
• Full Benefits Package: PTO, Paid Holidays, Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K, Tuition Reimbursement, Sick Leave as required by law

This job was posted on November 12, 2026 and will be open for 30 days.

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