Senior Kibana / Observability Engineer

Position: Senior Kibana/Observability Engineer
Location: Remote
Duration: 6+ months contract

Job Description:
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.

Required Skills:
• 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

Desired Skills:
• Experience supporting Elastic observability, telemetry analytics (e.g., OpenTelemetry, SIEM/log architectures) and operational monitoring implementations
• Experience developing executive dashboards, operational reporting, and visualization strategies
• Familiarity with SIEM, telemetry analytics, metrics, distributed tracing, and observability concepts
• Experience with Cloud architecture, system administration, and infrastructure-as-code principles
• 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

Educational Requirements:
• 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

Thanks & Regards
Krishna Chalasani
Account Manager
E-mail: krishna@icsglobalsoft.com
Cell: (9 5 9) – (3 0 1) – (9 5 9 7)