Senior Elasticsearch Engineer - TS/SCI Clearance

VMD Corp; Bethesda (MD); On-site; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Xcelerate Solutions in Bethesda, MD is seeking an Elastic Search Engineer to develop, deploy, and maintain Elasticsearch/ Redis databases within a Kubernetes-based microservice ecosystem. You will collaborate with systems engineers, security, and operations to implement GitOps practices and ensure scalable, secure data services.

Ideal candidates have TS/SCI clearance, strong Linux admin skills, and experience with Kubernetes platforms (EKS/Rancher/RKE2).

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent with 8+ years of relevant experience.

Responsibilities

• Deploy, triage, debug, and maintain production class databases like Elasticsearch and Redis.
• Design and support database configuration management strategies across air-gapped network fabrics.
• Partner with Systems Engineers to architect solutions for new capabilities.
• Contribute to operational monitoring capabilities to provide proactive system notifications.
• Contribute technical input to engineering documentation, diagrams, and models.
• Participate in Agile release planning, scrums, design sessions, bug triage, and related team activities.

Skills

Kubernetes

Elasticsearch

Redis

Linux

Security clearance TS/SCI

GitOps

ArgoCD

Helm

Networking

CI/CD

Cloud platforms (AWS)

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Master’s degree with 6+ years of experience

Tools

EKS

Rancher

RKE2

Keycloak

Strimzi

Docker

Job description

Xcelerate Solutions in Bethesda, MD is seeking an Elastic Search Engineer to develop, deploy, and maintain Elasticsearch/ Redis databases within a Kubernetes-based microservice ecosystem. You will collaborate with systems engineers, security, and operations to implement GitOps practices and ensure scalable, secure data services.

Ideal candidates have TS/SCI clearance, strong Linux admin skills, and experience with Kubernetes platforms (EKS/Rancher/RKE2).