Elasticsearch Engineer - TS/SCI Poly

Position Title: Elasticsearch Engineer
Location: Annapolis Junction, MD
Clearance Requirement: TS/SCI POLY
Position Type: Full-Time, Fully-Funded

Benefits 

• Competitive Compensation
• Medical, Dental & Vision insurance
• 15% 401k Contribution
• 30 PTO days with carryover available
• Company Apparel Credit annually

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Position Overview

We are seeking a skilled Elasticsearch Engineer to design, deploy, and maintain Elasticsearch clusters supporting high-performance search and analytics across large-scale systems. The ideal candidate will have deep hands-on experience with the Elastic Stack and the ability to collaborate across DevOps, engineering, and data teams to ensure scalable, secure, and optimized search infrastructure.

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Key Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and manage production-grade Elasticsearch clusters.

• Develop and maintain indexing strategies and data ingestion pipelines tailored to application-specific needs.

• Optimize query performance and ensure continuous monitoring of cluster health and search efficiency.

• Collaborate with developers, data engineers, and DevOps teams to integrate Elasticsearch into various services and applications.

• Implement and maintain dashboards and visualizations using Kibana or similar tools.

• Manage cluster upgrades, backups, and snapshots, ensuring data integrity and high availability.

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Required Qualifications

• Strong, hands-on experience with Elasticsearch (7.x or 8.x preferred).

• Proficiency in writing complex search queries and tuning for performance and relevance.

• Deep understanding of Elasticsearch indexing strategies, mappings, analyzers, and tokenizers.

• Proven experience managing Elasticsearch in production environments (self-managed or Elastic Cloud).

• Familiarity with related Elastic Stack components, including Logstash, Beats, and Kibana.

• Proficiency in at least one scripting or programming language (e.g., Python, Java, Bash).

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Preferred Qualifications

• Experience collaborating directly with Elastic support or engineers.

• Background in scaling Elasticsearch for high-throughput or multi-tenant environments.

• Knowledge of Elasticsearch security configurations (TLS, RBAC, API key management).

• Exposure to observability use cases or SIEM pipelines.

• Elasticsearch certifications are a plus.

• Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools like Elastic APM, Prometheus, or Grafana.

 

Preferred/Desired Skills:

• DevOps practices and toolchains

• Kibana and Logstash for logging and analysis

• MongoDB or other NoSQL databases

• Docker, Docker Compose, or Docker Swarm for containerization

• RESTful web services

• Angular (for front-end development)

• Drools (business rules management)

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Why Join Us?

• Work on a mission-critical program delivering real-time intelligence to global partners

• Collaborate with top engineers and analysts on high-priority national security needs

• Flexible hybrid work schedule (up to 2 telework days/week)

• Additional compensated hours for on-call support

• Opportunities to grow in a fast-paced, impactful environment

Benefits 

• Competitive Compensation
• Medical, Dental & Vision insurance
• 15% 401k Contribution
• 30 PTO days with carryover available
• Company Apparel Credit annually

We do not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, retaliation, parental status, military service, or other non-merit factor.