Senior Elastic Developer

Everforth ECS is seeking a Senior Elastic Developer to work in our Arlington, VA office. 

 

Role & Responsibilities: 

Everforth ECS is seeking a skilled Senior Elastic Developer to influence the design, operation, and evolution of our enterprise Elastic 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 Developer will work collaboratively as part of a dedicated engineering team, serving as a technical leader in troubleshooting, diagnosing, and resolving complex issues 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 automation that simplifies operations and improves reliability. The Elastic Developer 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 Developer 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 data analysis and visualization using the Elastic Stack to enable stakeholders to transform platform data into meaningful insights. Ultimately, the Elastic Developer will contribute to a culture of continuous improvement, advancing ECS’s Elastic capabilities to deliver a robust, scalable, and high-performing platform.

Qualifications

• US citizenship with ability to obtain and maintain Public Trust Suitability 

• 4+ years general experience with Elasticsearch or equivalent products in the Elastic Stack 

• Proficiency in developing automated test suites that validate end-to-end data pipelines, API functionality, and system integrations 

• Strong Python and Bash scripting skills for automating Elasticsearch operations, building data pipelines, and managing cluster configurations 

• 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