Senior Elasticsearch Architect for Mission-Critical Systems

CACI International Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 99,000 - 207,000; Full time

Job summary

CAC I International Inc. seeks a Senior Elasticsearch Engineer to lead advanced search, analytics, and data engineering initiatives across government-grade systems.

You will architect and optimize Elastic Stack deployments, influence architectural direction, and guide teams in mission-critical environments. The role requires 8+ years of progressive engineering experience, hands-on Elasticsearch, Kibana, SQL, and cloud skills, with DoD clearance desired.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (will consider experience in lieu of degree).
• 8+ years of progressive engineering experience including 2+ years of hands-on Elasticsearch work.
• Expert-level proficiency in Elasticsearch internals, cluster tuning, scaling, shard allocation, and snapshot management.
• Advanced experience with Kibana analytics, scripted fields, pipeline aggregations, alerting, and observability.
• Strong SQL/PLSQL with Oracle or PostgreSQL experience.
• Experience with AWS services such as S3, RDS, and EKS or equivalent cloud platforms.

Responsibilities

• Architect, design, and optimize Elasticsearch clusters, indexes, mappings, and data models at scale.
• Develop dashboards, scripted queries, alerting strategies, and analytics in Kibana.
• Lead ingestion and extraction workflows using Apache NiFi.
• Oversee performance tuning, cluster health, resilience, and observability across distributed environments.
• Mentor mid-level and junior engineers while establishing best practices and engineering standards.

Skills

Elasticsearch internals

Kibana analytics

SQL/PLSQL

AWS cloud

Technical leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Elasticsearch

Kibana

NiFi

Oracle

PostgreSQL

AWS

Job description

CAC I International Inc. seeks a Senior Elasticsearch Engineer to lead advanced search, analytics, and data engineering initiatives across government-grade systems.

You will architect and optimize Elastic Stack deployments, influence architectural direction, and guide teams in mission-critical environments. The role requires 8+ years of progressive engineering experience, hands-on Elasticsearch, Kibana, SQL, and cloud skills, with DoD clearance desired.