Secret Elastic SRE / Observability Engineer

About the Role

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 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

• 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

• 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.

Pay

Salary range: $180,000 – $200,000

Benefits

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

Schedule

Hybrid work schedule (minimum 3 days onsite per week)

This job opens for applications on 08/10/2026. Applications will be accepted for at least 30 days from the posting date.