ElasticSearch Systems Engineer (2024-0100)

Acclaim Technical Services - Reston, VA

Full-time - Senior

Reston, VA

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The ElasticSearch Systems Engineer will support a large enterprise ElasticSearch deployment within an Agile DevSecOps environment at Acclaim Technical Services. This role involves maintaining, configuring, and troubleshooting ElasticSearch clusters in both cloud and on-premises settings, ensuring optimal performance and security while collaborating with various teams to meet business needs.

Responsibilities

• Maintain Elasticsearch clusters in a cloud-based environment across multiple availability zones.
• Ensure the Elasticsearch clusters continue to run under optimal conditions.
• Evaluate existing Elasticsearch clusters, configuration parameters, indexing, search and query performance tuning, security and administration.
• Maintain appropriate infrastructure to maintain performance and data integrity.
• Keep Elasticsearch clusters upgraded as permitted by the applications reliant on them.
• Spin up/customize clusters to meet various development and/or business needs.
• Optimize indexes to meet business needs (e.g. logging, enterprise search).
• Troubleshoot various issues with the clusters (from small errors like unassigned shards, to automation issues, to node/cluster failures).
• Work closely with architecture, engineering and development and operations teams and jointly work on key deliverables ensuring production scalability and stability.
• Ensure security of Elasticsearch cluster.
• Follow and implement Elastic best practices.
• Ensure appropriate monitoring & alerting of Elasticsearch.

Requirements

• 3+ years experience with Elasticsearch Administration.
• Direct experience maintaining and integrating Elasticsearch within an operational enterprise information system.
• Experience working in an Agile development environment and tempo.
• Experience with deploying and using Elasticsearch in Commercial Cloud Platform (ex, AWS, Google Cloud, Azure).
• Excellent communication skills (written and verbal).
• Requires Masters with 15+ years of prior relevant experience.
• Candidates must possess a current TS/SCI security clearance w/Polygraph.

Benefits

• Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP)
• Ranked as a top workplace among DC area firms