ElasticSearch Systems Engineer (2025-0118)

Acclaim Technical Services, Inc.; Bethesda (MD); On-site; USD 190,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits package

Job summary

Acclaim Technical Services is looking for an ElasticSearch Systems Engineer to support programs in Bethesda, MD. The ideal candidate will have a Master's degree and at least 15 years of experience, with over 3 years specifically in Elasticsearch Administration.

In this role, you will maintain Elasticsearch clusters, troubleshoot issues, and work within an Agile team environment. The position comes with a competitive salary range of $190,000 - $200,000 and a comprehensive benefits package.

Qualifications

• 3+ years' experience with Elasticsearch Administration.
• Direct experience maintaining and integrating Elasticsearch within an operational enterprise information system.
• Excellent communication skills (written and verbal).

Responsibilities

• Maintain Elasticsearch clusters in a cloud-based environment.
• Ensure the Elasticsearch clusters run optimally.
• Troubleshoot various issues with the clusters.

Skills

Elasticsearch Administration

Agile development

Communication skills

Education

Master's degree with 15+ years of experience

Tools

AWS

Google Cloud

Azure

Job description

Acclaim Technical Services, founded in 2000, is a leading language, operations, and technology services company supporting a wide range of U.S. Federal agencies. We are an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) company, which is uncommon within our business sector. We see this as a significant strength, and it shows: ATS is consistently ranked as a top workplace among DC area firms and continues to grow.

We are actively hiring an ElasticSearch Systems Engineer with TS/SCI clearance and polygraph to support a program in Bethesda, MD. The ElasticSearch Systems Engineer SME role provides support across an Agile team in a DevSecOps environment, and will provide design, configuration, maintenance and troubleshooting support for a large enterprise ElasticSearch deployment in both cloud (AWS) and on-prem environments.

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, development, and operations teams to 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+ 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 Platforms (ex, AWS, Google Cloud, Azure).
• Excellent communication skills (written and verbal).
• Candidate must have a Master's degree with 15 or more years of prior relevant experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working on customer's systems.
• Understanding of customer's system development policies.

Pay and Benefits

Pay Range: $190,000.00 - $200,000.00.

• Comprehensive benefits package including healthcare, wellness, financial, retirement, family support, continuing education, and time off benefits.

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY (EEO) STATEMENT

ATS is committed to a program of equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, ethnicity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, sex, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, age, religion/creed, hairstyles and hair textures, handicap/disability, genetic information/history, military/veteran status, or any other characteristic or condition protected by applicable law. We support the employment and advancement in employment of individuals with disabilities and of protected veterans, and we treat qualified individuals without discrimination on the basis of their physical or mental disability or veteran status.