ElasticSearch Systems Engineer (2024-0100) - Acclaim Technical Services

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 a ElasticSearch Systems Engineer to join our Mission Technology and Solutions Division working in Reston, Virginia. The ElasticSearch Systems Engineer 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.

Primary 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

• 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)

**Requires Masters with 15 years of prior relevant experience.

Candidates must possess a current TS/SCI security clearance w/Polygraph.



 

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