Senior Kibana/Observability Engineer

Everforth ECS Federal is seeking a Senior Kibana/Observability Engineer to support development and operationalization of enterprise observability, telemetry visualization, operational analytics, and monitoring capabilities within a federal healthcare environment supporting the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.  The Senior 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 Veterans Affairs (VA) enterprise and cloud environments.  Must be a US citizen with ability to obtain and maintain a Tier 5 (T5) background investigation (Public Trust Level 5)  7+ years of experience supporting observability, monitoring, analytics, or dashboard engineering 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  Develop reporting and visualization strategies supporting executive and operational stakeholders  Support implementation and monitoring of Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs)  Support training and knowledge transfer for operational stakeholders  Salary Range: $140,000-180,000 General Description of Benefits Qualifications 7+ years of experience with a Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Information Technology, Engineering or Computer Science, and/or equivalent experience  One or more related certifications preferred:  Elastic Certified Engineer or Elastic Certified Observability Engineer  AWS Certified Security or Microsoft Azure Security Engineer  Security+ or CSSIP  Equivalent cybersecurity or cloud certificates