Elasticsearch Engineer with TS/SCI FSP
Mindbank Consulting Group, LLC, Reston, VA, United States
Mindbank Consulting Group has a great direct hire opportunity for a cleared and highly experienced Elasticsearch Engineer with an active TS/SCI with FSP . This position is located in Reston, Virginia , and is fully onsite. Our client offers excellent benefits, and the salary range is $180K - $225K (based on each candidate's skills and experiences).
In this role, you will be supporting a large enterprise Elasticsearch deployment. This role requires providing design, configuration, maintenance and troubleshooting support in the Elastic environments in both cloud (AWS) and on prem.
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
Minimum Requirements:
Candidates must be US Citizens with an active TS/SCI w/Poly
Candidate must have a master’s degree with 15 or more years of prior relevant experience.
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)