811522 Software Engineer $240,000.00

B4Corp; Bethesda (MD); Hybrid; USD 168,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

B4Corp is seeking an Elastic Search Systems Engineer to support a large enterprise Elasticsearch deployment in a DevSecOps, Agile environment. The role requires designing, configuring, maintaining and troubleshooting Elasticsearch clusters in AWS and on‑prem, with a TS/SCI clearance and a 9am–4pm core schedule in Bethesda, MD.

You will collaborate with architecture, engineering and operations to ensure scalable production, performance tuning, security, monitoring and incident response, while

Qualifications

• 3+ years of Elasticsearch administration in an enterprise environment.
• Bachelor's degree with 12+ years of relevant experience or Master's with 10+ years of relevant experience.
• Experience deploying Elasticsearch in AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure.
• Strong communication and Agile/DevSecOps experience.

Responsibilities

• Maintain Elasticsearch clusters across multi-AZ cloud environments.
• Ensure clusters run with optimal performance and reliability.
• Tune configurations, indexing, search, and security settings.
• Maintain infrastructure to preserve performance and data integrity.
• Upgrade clusters as applications permit.
• Collaborate with architecture, engineering, development and operations for scalable production.
• Ensure monitoring and alerting for Elasticsearch.

Skills

Elasticsearch Administration

Agile development

Cloud deployment

Elasticsearch maintenance

Education

Bachelor's degree with 12+ years of experience

Master's degree with 10+ years of experience

Tools

AWS

Google Cloud

Azure

Job description

Labor Category: Software Engineer
Position Title: Elastic Search Systems Engineer
Position Level: Level 2 – Expert
Salary: Up to $280,000.00 per year
Core Hours: 9am to 4pm
Location: Bethesda MD

Description

Position Requires a Top Secret (TS/SCI) Clearance with a Polygraph.

Data Ingest & Enrichment – 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.

Details

Labor Category: Software Engineer
Position Title: Elastic Search Systems Engineer
Position Level: Level 2 – Expert
Salary: Up to $280,000.00 per year
Core Hours: 9am to 4pm
Location: Bethesda MD

Mandatory Requirements

• Developmental (0-2 years’ experience)
• Full Performance (3-5 years’ experience)
• Senior (6-10 years’ experience)
• Expert (11-15 years’ experience)
• SME (16+ years’ experience)

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.

Optional Requirements

Experience working on customer’s systems

Understanding of customer’s system development policies

B4CORP Company Information

B4Corp is a small defense contracting company that focuses on providing an optimum environment for mission-focused, highly skilled consultants to support the United States of America’s intelligence community and other defense organizations. B4Corp provides a low overhead, highly efficient, high salary environment that allows employees to excel at meeting the client’s needs. B4Corp is looking for information technology professionals that have a high sense of personal responsibility, self-motivation, and mission drive.

B4Corp’s dedication and care for its employees is reflected in our outstanding compensation and benefits package. B4Corp’s benefits reflect the company’s policy of putting the employees first. B4Corp’s maximum flexibility comp / makeup time policy, along with the company’s cafeteria-style benefit plan that allows employees to maximize their Benefit Dollars, reflects B4Corp’s commitment to its employees.

Compensation

• Outstanding Salaries

Retirement

• Full Vanguard 401k Plan – Featuring a full scope of investment options
• 100% employer matched contribution up to 6% of employee’s salary
• Ability to max out 401k savings $57k ($63.5k if over 50)
• Employees receive B4Corp phantom stock each year (2-year vesting period)

Insurance

• Medical – United Health Care (UHC) (multiple plan options)
• Dental – United Concordia (UC) Flex Plan
• Vision – Vision Service Plan Insurance Co (VSP) Signature Plans
• Mutual of Omaha short-term disability (60% of salary up to $2,000.00/week)
• Mutual of Omaha long-term disability (60% of salary up to $10,000.00/month)
• Mutual of Omaha life insurance ($200,000.00)

Employee Referral Bonus

• Refer a friend or a coworker and receive $3,000 per year for every year the person works for B4CORP

Paid Time Off (PTO)

• Seven weeks of leave per year (including ten federal holidays)
• Flexible work schedule with comp time (with customer approval)

B4Corp is an EEO and e-Verify employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or national origin. Please take the time to review and complete these three voluntary identification forms if you choose to do so and email them to [e-mail].