Elasticsearch Engineer (TS/SCI CI Poly Clearance Required)

North Point Technology•Chantilly, VA

14h

About The Position

North Point Technology is seeking an experienced TS/SCI Cleared ElasticSearch Engineer to provide support to an Elastic Stack Application involving a mission critical enterprise identity and access management system. This position will support the development and operations of an enterprise application that visualizes identity and access management (IDAM) data related to authentication services across NGA and other DoD systems. The application is built on the ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana), and the role involves supporting the full lifecycle including design, development, monitoring, and troubleshooting. This program requires employees to have an active TS/SCI clearance with and SCI and must pass a CI Poly every 5 years. If you have a Full Scope Poly, working this program will keep your Full Scope ACTIVE.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in related discipline plus 2-4 years of prior relevant experience or master’s with less than 2 years of prior relevant experience
Experience as a software developer, integrator, administrator, or similar technical role
Active Top Secret clearance
Must be able to obtain and maintain CI (Counterintelligence) polygraph
Must be DoD-8570/8140 level 2 compliant
Familiarity with deploying and managing Elasticsearch clusters and Kibana.
Understanding of basic troubleshooting, performance tuning, and cluster health management for Elasticsearch environments.
Ability to work well in a collaborative team setting and receive guidance from senior engineers.
Familiarity with Agile tools such as Jira and Confluence.
Strong problem-solving skills and a willingness to learn and grow within the field.

Nice To Haves

Elastic Certified Engineer
Experience with container orchestration technologies like Docker and Kubernetes
Exposure to working in a production environment with uptime and availability requirements.
Basic understanding or exposure to identity, credential, and access management (ICAM) technologies.

Responsibilities

Assist in designing, developing, and deploying log analytics and infrastructure monitoring solutions using the Elastic stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Beats, and Kibana) to support an existing identity, credential, and access management (ICAM) system.
Help deploy, configure, test, troubleshoot, maintain, and upgrade Elastic clusters and environments under the guidance of senior team members.
Support the optimization of Elasticsearch infrastructure and configuration to maintain cluster health and search performance.
Interface with other developers to integrate Elastic stack with existing ICAM baseline
Help resolve installation, infrastructure, data flow, and log ingest issues in both development and production environments.
Perform daily administration tasks for Elasticsearch clusters and environments.
Participate in an Agile environment by estimating features and user stories and contributing to sprint planning.
Assist in the implementation of DevSecOps practices with automated CI/CD pipelines.