Senior Elasticsearch Engineer: Scale, Security & Observability

Everfox; Virginia (MN); On-site; USD 139,000 - 183,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible PTO

401k match

Healthcare coverage

Job summary

Everfox in Chantilly, VA seeks a Senior Elasticsearch Engineer to design, develop, and maintain enterprise-scale search platforms powered by the Elastic Stack. You will collaborate with software, data, and DevOps teams to build highly available, scalable search solutions supporting mission-critical applications.

The role requires deep expertise in Elasticsearch architecture, indexing strategies, query optimization, and cluster administration, plus observability.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and maintaining Elasticsearch clusters.
• Expertise in indexing, search optimization, and observability.
• Experience with ILM, snapshots, backups, and DR strategies.
• Security with Elastic Security, RBAC, TLS, and authentication mechanisms.
• Experience with IaC tooling (Terraform, Ansible, Helm).
• Active TS/SCI security clearance is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain highly available Elasticsearch clusters.
• Develop efficient indexing strategies for structured and unstructured data.
• Optimize search performance, relevance scoring, and query execution.
• Monitor cluster health and troubleshoot performance bottlenecks.
• Configure and maintain Elastic Stack components: Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, Beats, Elastic Agent.
• Implement ILM, snapshots, backups, and disaster recovery strategies.
• Design mappings, analyzers, tokenizers, and ingest pipelines.
• Build dashboards and visualizations using Kibana.
• Integrate Elasticsearch APIs into applications.
• Perform cluster upgrades, scaling, and capacity planning.

Skills

Elasticsearch

Indexing strategies

Query optimization

Cluster administration

Observability

Education

Bachelor's degree

DoD 8570 Certification IAT II+

Tools

Kibana

Logstash

Beats

Elastic Agent

Elastic Cloud

Job description

Everfox in Chantilly, VA seeks a Senior Elasticsearch Engineer to design, develop, and maintain enterprise-scale search platforms powered by the Elastic Stack. You will collaborate with software, data, and DevOps teams to build highly available, scalable search solutions supporting mission-critical applications.

The role requires deep expertise in Elasticsearch architecture, indexing strategies, query optimization, and cluster administration, plus observability.