Senior Elasticsearch Engineer — Performance & Security Lead

Nuaxis-Innovations; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

NuAxis is a federal IT company focused on making customer experience central to government solutions. We are seeking a Senior Elasticsearch Administrator for a full-time role in the United States to manage Elasticsearch clusters, design indexing strategies, and optimize performance while ensuring security and reliability.

The ideal candidate will have 5–8 years of Elasticsearch administration, Elastic certifications, and a track record in large-scale production environments, with preferred AWS,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field; OR an Associate's degree plus two years of relevant experience.
• Five to eight years of Elasticsearch or search platform administration experience.
• Elastic Certified Engineer required.
• Elastic Certified Analyst or Elastic Certified Observability Engineer obtainable within 180 days of assignment.
• Preferred: AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate; Linux Professional Institute Certification; CompTIA Security+.
• Required Skills: Elasticsearch cluster management; index configuration and optimization; query performance tuning; security configuration; monitoring and alerting; data lifecycle management; backup and recovery.
• Preferred Skills: ELK Stack; Beats integration; cloud deployment; large-scale production environments; federal sector experience.

Responsibilities

• Administer Elasticsearch clusters including node management, sharding, and scaling.
• Design index mappings, templates, lifecycle policies, and ingest pipelines.
• Tune query and indexing performance; optimize search relevance and throughput.
• Configure security controls, authentication, authorization, and encryption.
• Implement monitoring, alerting, snapshot, and recovery procedures.
• Manage data lifecycle, retention, and storage optimization.

Skills

Elasticsearch

Cluster management

Indexing configuration

Query performance tuning

Security configuration

Monitoring and alerting

Data lifecycle management

Backup and recovery

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT/CS or related field

Associate's degree + 2 years relevant experience

Tools

ELK Stack

Kibana

Logstash

Beats

OpenSearch

Job description

NuAxis is a federal IT company focused on making customer experience central to government solutions. We are seeking a Senior Elasticsearch Administrator for a full-time role in the United States to manage Elasticsearch clusters, design indexing strategies, and optimize performance while ensuring security and reliability.

The ideal candidate will have 5–8 years of Elasticsearch administration, Elastic certifications, and a track record in large-scale production environments, with preferred AWS,