ElasticSearch Systems Engineer (2025-0118)

Acclaim Technical Services•Bethesda, MD

105d•$190,000 - $200,000

About The Position

Acclaim Technical Services, founded in 2000, is a leading language, operations, and technology services company supporting a wide range of U.S. Federal agencies. We are an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) company, which is uncommon within our business sector. We see this as a significant strength, and it shows: ATS is consistently ranked as a top workplace among DC area firms and continues to grow. We are actively hiring ElasticSearch Systems Engineer with TS/SCI clearance and polygraph to support a program in Bethesda, MD. The ElasticSearch Systems Engineer SME role provides support across an Agile team in a DevSecOps environment. This role will provide support for a large enterprise ElasticSearch deployment. This role requires providing design, configuration, maintenance and troubleshooting support in the Elastic environments in both cloud (AWS) and on prem.

Requirements

3+ years’ experience with Elasticsearch Administration
Direct experience maintaining and integrating Elasticsearch within an operational enterprise information system
Experience working in an Agile development environment and tempo
Experience with deploying and using Elasticsearch in Commercial Cloud Platform (ex, AWS, Google Cloud, Azure)
Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)
Candidate must have a Master’s degree with 15 or more years of prior relevant experience.

Nice To Haves

Experience working on customer's systems
Understanding of customer's system development policies

Responsibilities

Maintain Elasticsearch clusters in a cloud-based environment across multiple availability zones.
Ensure the Elasticsearch clusters continue to run under optimal conditions
Evaluate existing Elasticsearch clusters, configuration parameters, indexing, search and query performance tuning, security and administration
Maintain appropriate infrastructure to maintain performance and data integrity
Keep Elasticsearch clusters upgraded (as permitted by the applications reliant on them)
Spin up/customize clusters to meet various development and/or business needs
Optimize indexes to meet business needs (e.g. logging, enterprise search)
Troubleshoot various issues with the clusters (from small errors like unassigned shards, to automation issues, to node/cluster failures)
Work closely with architecture, engineering and development and operations teams and jointly work on key deliverables ensuring production scalability and stability
Ensure security of Elasticsearch cluster
Follow and implement Elastic best practices
Ensure appropriate monitoring & alerting of Elasticsearch