Secret Elastic SRE / Observability Engineer

Piper Companies is seeking an Elastic SRE / Observability Engineer to support a federal technology and defense environment focused on mission-critical platform reliability and security. The Elastic SRE / Observability Engineer role is ideal for an experienced engineer with strong expertise in Elastic Stack, Kubernetes, and site reliability engineering who thrives in highly secure, production-grade environments.

Responsibilities of the Elastic SRE / Observability Engineer:

• Operate and support large-scale Elastic Stack environments across search, logging, and observability use cases.

• Ensure platform reliability, uptime, scalability, and performance across mission-critical production systems.

• Manage and maintain Kubernetes-based Elastic deployments (ECK preferred).

• Develop automation for deployment, monitoring, and incident response workflows.

• Integrate Elastic Stack with SIEM and security tools such as Splunk, EDR platforms, and telemetry systems.

• Troubleshoot complex issues across distributed systems and resolve production incidents.

• Implement and enhance observability frameworks including logs, metrics, and tracing.

• Support CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code practices.

• Maintain runbooks, documentation, and escalation procedures for operational continuity.

• Participate in on-call rotations and incident response activities.

• Update and manage data collectors across clusters and coordinate cluster maintenance activities.

• Create visualizations, dashboards, and monitoring tools to track performance and network behavior.

Qualifications of the Elastic SRE / Observability Engineer:

• Strong experience with Elastic Stack in enterprise or production environments.

• Hands-on expertise with Kubernetes; ECK operator experience highly preferred.

• Strong Linux/Unix administration and networking fundamentals.

• Proven experience in SRE or DevOps roles supporting production systems.

• Experience building and supporting observability and monitoring frameworks.

• Ability to troubleshoot distributed system issues within secure environments.

• Experience with infrastructure automation tools such as Terraform or Ansible preferred.

• Familiarity with SIEM and EDR tools such as Splunk, CrowdStrike, or Trellix is a plus.

• Experience working in federal, defense, or regulated environments preferred.

• Strong incident response mindset with the ability to perform under pressure.

• Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate across cross-functional technical teams.

• Ability to work onsite in a hybrid environment (Hanscom AFB, MA or Langley AFB, VA).

• Eligibility to obtain or maintain a Secret security clearance required.

Compensation for the Elastic SRE / Observability Engineer includes:

• Salary range: $180,000 – $200,000

• Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, and 401(k)

• Hybrid work schedule (minimum 3 days onsite per week)

• Opportunity to support a high-impact federal program within a secure environment

This job opens for applications on 06/28/2026. Applications for this job will be accepted for at least 30 days from the posting date.

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