# Elasticsearch Systems Engineer (SME)

**Company**: Leidos
**Location**: Bethesda, MD
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $154,050.00 - $278,475.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Leidos has an exciting opportunity for an Elasticsearch Systems Engineer (SME) in our Intel Security Sector's Analysis Solutions Business Area. You will provide support across an Agile team in a DevSecOps environment for a large enterprise Elasticsearch deployment.

**Job Summary** 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.

**Job Responsibilities**

- Maintain Elasticsearch clusters in a cloud-based environment across multiple availability zones.

- Ensure Elasticsearch clusters run under optimal conditions.

- Evaluate and optimize Elasticsearch clusters, including configuration parameters, indexing, search, query performance tuning, security, and administration.

- Maintain infrastructure to ensure performance and data integrity.

- Keep Elasticsearch clusters upgraded, as permitted by the applications reliant on them.

**Basic Qualifications**

- 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 Platforms (e.g., AWS, Google Cloud, Azure).

- Master's with 15 or more years of relevant experience or a PhD with 13 or more years of relevant experience. Additional years of experience may be substituted in lieu of a degree.

- TS/SCI with Poly is required for consideration.

**Benefits** Leidos offers competitive benefits, including Paid Time Off, 11 paid Holidays, 401K with a 6% company match and immediate vesting, Flexible Schedules, Discounted Stock Purchase Plans, Technical Upskilling, Education and Training Support, Parental Paid Leave, and more.

## Skills

### Required
- Elasticsearch Administration
- Agile development
- Commercial Cloud Platforms
- TS/SCI with Poly

### Nice to have
- Experience working on the customer’s systems
- Understanding of the customer’s system development policies
- Additional certifications related to Elasticsearch

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