Everforth ECS is seeking a
Observability Engineer in our
Fairfax, VA office in a hybrid capacity.
Everforth ECS Federal is seeking a
Observability Engineer to support development and operationalization of enterprise observability, telemetry visualization, operational analytics, and monitoring capabilities within a federal healthcare environment supporting the DOW.
The Kibana/Observability Engineer will act as the principal subject matter expert for designing, deploying, and maintaining the Elastic Observability solution (Logs, Metrics, APM, and Uptime/Synthetics) across Department of DOD/DISA Enterprise and cloud environments.
- Initiatives with hands-on Kibana dashboard and visualization development experience
- Design and develop native and complex Kibana dashboards, visualizations, analytics workflows, and operational reporting capabilities
- Architect, engineer, and scale Elastic environments specifically tuned for time-series metrics, distributed tracing, and high-volume application logs
- Deploy and instrument Elastic APM agents across diverse application stacks (Java, .NET, Node.js, Python) to trace transactions and isolate performance bottlenecks
- Configure advanced alerting rules and leverage Elastic Machine Learning (anomaly detection) to identify system degradation before it impacts end-users
- Collaborate with engineering and security teams to normalize telemetry and improve observability coverage
- Build intuitive, role-specific Kibana dashboards and Canvas workpads that unify logs, metrics, and traces for rapid root-cause analysis by IT operations
- Monitor system activity and identify anomalous or suspicious operational trends
- Support:
- Operational awareness, incident monitoring, and continuous monitoring activities
- Implementation and monitoring of Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs)
- Training and knowledge transfer for operational stakeholders
- Develop reporting and visualization strategies supporting executive and operational stakeholders
Note: Salary is commensurate with skillset, qualifications, experience, and educational background.
Salary Range: $140,000-165,000
General Description of Benefits
- U.S. Citizen.
- Active DoD Secret security clearance.
- Required active certifications:
- DoD 8140 IAT Level II Security+ (or higher) or CISSP.
- AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer - Associate
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
- Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Engineering or Computer Science, 7+ years of experience experience.
- Experience with the following:
- Supporting Elastic observability, telemetry analytics (e.g., OpenTelemetry, SIEM/log architectures) and operational monitoring implementations.
- Developing executive dashboards, operational reporting, and visualization strategies.
- Cloud architecture, system administration, and infrastructure-as-code principles.
- Familiarity with SIEM, telemetry analytics, metrics, distributed tracing, and observability concepts.
- Knowledge in software engineering and development methodologies (essential for deep APM and code-level tracing).
- Ability to apply analytical reasoning to comprehend complex distributed systems, microservices architectures, and telemetry data.
- Understanding of Federal cybersecurity and compliance environments preferred.
- Excellent written, presentation, and stakeholder engagement skills
- Ability to support 10-15% travel
- Strong problem-solving and decision-making capabilities, with a proven ability to weigh the relative costs and benefits of potential actions and identify the most appropriate solution.
- Highly developed interpersonal and oral/written communication skills, with the ability to effectively and professionally interact with a diverse set of stakeholders (from peers to end-users to executive management).
Note: Salary is commensurate with skillset, qualifications, experience, and educational background.
