Elasticsearch Engineer with TS/SCI FSP


Job Details

Mindbank Consulting Group has a great direct hire opportunity for a cleared and highly experienced Elasticsearch Engineer with an active TS/SCI with FSP . This position is located in Reston, Virginia , and is fully onsite. Our client offers excellent benefits, and the salary range is $180K - $225K (based on each candidate's skills and experiences).

In this role, you will be supporting 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.

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

Minimum Requirements:

  • Candidates must be US Citizens with an active TS/SCI w/Poly

  • Candidate must have a masters degree with 15 or more years of prior relevant experience.

  • 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)





 Mindbank Consulting Group, LLC

 06/16/2024

 Reston,VA