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From the employer's careers site First seen 25 Oct 2026

Elasticsearch Systems Engineer (SME)

Leidos Bethesda, MD senior full-time

Salary

$154,050 - $278,475 per year

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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

Ready to apply?

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