Elastic Search Engineer (Master)

Hoplite Solutions is seeking an Elastic Search Systems Engineer who will provide support across an Agile team in a DevSecOps environment. This role will provide support for a large enterprise Elastic Search deployment. This role requires providing design, configuration, maintenance, and troubleshooting support in the Elastic environments in both cloud (AWS) and on-prem.

Primary Responsibilities:

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

Basic Qualifications:

1. 3+ years of experience with Elasticsearch Administration.
2. Direct experience maintaining and integrating Elasticsearch within an operational enterprise information system.
3. Experience working in an Agile development environment.
4. Experience with deploying and using Elasticsearch in Commercial Cloud Platforms (e.g., AWS, Google Cloud, Azure).
5. Excellent communication skills (written and verbal).

**Requires a Bachelor's degree with 12+ years of prior relevant experience or a Master's degree with 10+ years of prior relevant experience.

Candidate must have an active TS/SCI with polygraph.

Preferred Qualifications:

1. Experience working on ODNI systems.
2. Understanding of ODNI system development policies.

Hoplite Solutions offers very competitive salaries and an excellent benefits package, which includes a 7% employer 401k contribution, fully paid healthcare for our employees, outstanding training benefits, company-funded life insurance, short-term disability insurance, and many more.