Labor Category : Software Engineer Position Title : Elastic Search Systems Engineer Position Level : Level 1 - Subject Matter Expert Salary : Up to $245,000.00 per year Core Hours : 9am to 4pm Location : Bethesda MD Description : Position Requires a Top Secret (TS / SCI) Clearance with a Polygraph. Data Ingest & Enrichment - 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. Details : Labor Category : Software Engineer Position Title : Elastic Search Systems Engineer Position Level : Level 1 - Subject Matter Expert Salary : Up to $245,000.00 per year Core Hours : 9am to 4pm Location : Bethesda MD Mandatory Requirements : Developmental (0-2 years' experience) Full Performance (3-5 years' experience) Senior (6-10 years' experience) Expert (11-15 years' experience) SME (16 years' experience) 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. 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 Basic Qualifications : 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. Optional Requirements : Experience working on customer's systems Understanding of customer's system development policies B4CORP Company Information B4Corp is a small defense contracting company that focuses on providing an optimum environment for mission-focused, highly skilled consultants to support the United States of America's intelligence community and other defense organizations. B4Corp provides a low overhead, highly efficient, high salary environment that allows employees to excel at meeting the client's needs. B4Corp is looking for information technology professionals that have a high sense of personal responsibility, self-motivation, and mission drive. B4Corp's dedication and care for its employees is reflected in our outstanding compensation and benefits package. B4Corp's benefits reflect the company's policy of putting the employees first. B4Corp's maximum flexibility comp / makeup time policy, along with the company's cafeteria-style benefit plan that allows employees to maximize their Benefit Dollars, reflects B4Corp's commitment to its employees. Compensation :
Software Engineer • Bethesda, MD, United States