Principal Elasticsearch Systems Engineer

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Job description

Candidate MUST possess a TS/SCI clearance with Intel Polygraph

Job Description:

The Principal ElasticSearch Systems Engineer role provides support across an Agile team in a DevSecOps environment. This role will provide support for 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.

Primary 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

Basic Qualifications:

3+ year 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)

Candidate must have a Bachelor s degree with 12 or more years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 10 or more years of prior relevant experience.

Candidate must have an active TS/SCI w/Poly

Preferred Qualifications:

Experience working on customer's systems

Understanding of customer's system development policies

MUST be a US Citizen with a U.S. Government clearance - Intel with Polygraph

NOTE: Must have an active TS-SCI with poly. No sponsorships or upgrades are available. Submissions without this requirement will not be considered. H1-B holders will not be considered.

Benefits:
Up to 5 week paid vacation + 10 gov't holidays
Up to 15% contribution to 401k
LTD, STD disability and life insurance
Paid health, dental, and vision for employee and family.
$5000 annual training expense reimbursement
Computer purchase plan

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