626 Elasticsearch Systems Engineer TS SCI Full Scope Poly

VECTOR JOB OPENING
Job ID: 626
Job Title: Elasticsearch Systems Engineer
Clearance Required: Must have an active TS/SCI with CI Poly for this job.
Department: Software Engineering
Location: Reston, VA 100% onsite- schedule can be 40 hours a week - we can do compressed work schedules.
Type: Perm Placement Direct Hire
Pay: W2 Salaried plus benefits, PTO, Holidays and Sick Days, 401k/w Match, Life Insurance and more.
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NOTE: FOR THIS JOB YOU MUST HAVE AT A MINIMUM A TS/SCI with Full Scope Poly
Job Description for Elastic Search System Engineer - TS/SCI with Full Scope Poly
Vector Talent Resources is currently seeking an Elastic Search Systems Engineer who can 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.
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:

• 3+ years of 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.
• Candidate must have an active TS/SCI w/ a full scope poly.

Preferred Qualifications:

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

Vector Talent Resources is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, protected veteran status, race, color, religious creed, national origin, citizenship, marital status, sex, sexual orientation/gender identity, age or genetic information.