Elastic Search Engineer (Master)
Hoplite Solutions
Full-time
On-site
Reston, Virginia, United States
$185,000 - $215,000 USD yearly
Hoplite Solutions is seeking an Elastic Search Systems Engineer who will provide support across an Agile team in a DevSecOps environment. This role will provide support for a large enterprise Elastic Search deployment. This role requires providing design, configuration, maintenance and troubleshooting support in the Elastic environments in both cloud (AWS) and on prem.
Primary Responsibilities:
Basic Qualifications:
Hoplite Solutions offers very competitive salaries and an excellent benefits package, to include a 7% employer 401k contribution, fully paid healthcare for our employees, outstanding training benefits, company funded life insurance and short-term disability insurance, and many more.
Salary at Hoplite Solutions is determined by various factors, including but not limited to location, the individual’s particular combination of education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience, as well as contract-specific affordability and organizational requirements. The projected compensation range for this position is $185,000 to $215,000 (annualized USD). The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position and is just one component of the company total compensation package for employees.
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:
- Active TS/SCI with polygraph
- Requires Bachelors with 12+ years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 10+ of prior relevant experience
- 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)
- Experience working on ODNI systems
- Understanding of ODNI system development policies
Hoplite Solutions offers very competitive salaries and an excellent benefits package, to include a 7% employer 401k contribution, fully paid healthcare for our employees, outstanding training benefits, company funded life insurance and short-term disability insurance, and many more.
Salary at Hoplite Solutions is determined by various factors, including but not limited to location, the individual’s particular combination of education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience, as well as contract-specific affordability and organizational requirements. The projected compensation range for this position is $185,000 to $215,000 (annualized USD). The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position and is just one component of the company total compensation package for employees.