Senior Elasticsearch Engineer - TS/SCI w/CI Poly

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

Job summary

Everfox in Chantilly, VA seeks a Senior Elasticsearch Engineer to design, develop, optimize, 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 for mission-critical applications.

The role emphasizes Elasticsearch architecture, indexing strategies, query optimization, cluster administration, and observability, with responsibilities spanning ILM, backups,

Qualifications

• Experience designing, developing, and maintaining enterprise-scale search platforms.
• Deep expertise in Elasticsearch architecture, indexing strategies, and query optimization.
• Experience with cluster administration, observability, and security practices in Elastic Stack.

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 Elastic Stack components including ILM, snapshots, backups, and DR strategies.
• Design mappings, analyzers, tokenizers, and ingest pipelines.
• Build dashboards in Kibana and integrate Elasticsearch APIs into apps.
• Perform cluster upgrades, scaling, and capacity planning.
• Implement security using Elastic Security, RBAC, TLS, and authentication mechanisms.
• Automate deployments using Terraform, Ansible, Helm, or similar.
• Support production incidents and perform root cause analysis.
• Cluster Deployment: Installing, configuring, and scaling Elasticsearch nodes and indices.
• Log & Metric Monitoring: Integrating logs and OS metrics into the ELK Stack.
• Search Optimization: Mapping definitions, query optimization, and shard/replica management.
• Troubleshooting: JVM tuning and resolving node dropouts or lag issues.

Skills

Elasticsearch

Cluster administration

Query optimization

Indexing strategies

Observability

Security awareness

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

DoD 8570 Baseline Certification IAT II

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Helm

Kubernetes

Elastic Cloud (ECE/ESS)

Job description

Everfox in Chantilly, VA seeks a Senior Elasticsearch Engineer to design, develop, optimize, 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 for mission-critical applications.

The role emphasizes Elasticsearch architecture, indexing strategies, query optimization, cluster administration, and observability, with responsibilities spanning ILM, backups,