Senior Elasticsearch Engineer for Scalable Search

CACI International Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 82,000 - 172,000; Full time

Job summary

CA CI International Inc. seeks an Elasticsearch Engineer to design and optimize clusters, indexes, and data models at scale while delivering advanced dashboards and analytics in Kibana.

You will lead ingestion pipelines with Apache NiFi and drive system enhancements across the Enterprise environment. You will provide technical leadership, mentor junior engineers, and align roadmaps with mission-driven needs in a complex distributed data ecosystem.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (will consider experience in lieu of degree).
• Six or more years of progressive engineering experience, including 2+ years hands-on Elasticsearch work.
• Expert-level proficiency in Elasticsearch internals, cluster tuning, scaling, shard allocation, and snapshot management.
• Advanced Kibana analytics, scripted fields, pipeline aggregations, alerting, and observability.
• Strong SQL and PL/SQL skills with Oracle or PostgreSQL.
• Experience with AWS services S3, RDS, and EKS.
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical initiatives and influence architecture.

Responsibilities

• Design and optimize Elasticsearch clusters, indexes, mappings, and data models at scale.
• Develop advanced dashboards, scripted queries, alerting strategies, and analytics in Kibana.
• Lead ingestion and extraction workflows using Apache NiFi.
• Drive enhancements to PIEE and oversee performance tuning, health, and observability.
• Provide technical leadership within SAFe teams and advise on data patterns and integration impacts.
• Mentor junior engineers and establish engineering standards with long-term technical roadmaps.

Skills

Elasticsearch

Kibana

SQL/PLSQL

AWS

Leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

Apache NiFi

Elastic Stack

Job description

CA CI International Inc. seeks an Elasticsearch Engineer to design and optimize clusters, indexes, and data models at scale while delivering advanced dashboards and analytics in Kibana.

You will lead ingestion pipelines with Apache NiFi and drive system enhancements across the Enterprise environment. You will provide technical leadership, mentor junior engineers, and align roadmaps with mission-driven needs in a complex distributed data ecosystem.