# Principal Elasticsearch Systems Engineer

**Company**: Leidos
**Location**: Bethesda, MD
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $131,300.00 - $237,350.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are seeking a Principal Elasticsearch Systems Engineer to join our Intel Security Sector's Analysis Solutions Business Area. As a member of our team, you will provide support across an Agile team in a DevSecOps environment, focusing on a large enterprise Elasticsearch deployment.

The successful candidate will be responsible for:

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

- Ensuring Elasticsearch clusters run under optimal conditions

- Evaluating and optimizing Elasticsearch clusters, including configuration parameters, indexing, search, query performance tuning, security, and administration

- Maintaining infrastructure to ensure performance and data integrity

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

To qualify for this role, you will need:

- 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)

- Bachelor’s with 12 or more years of relevant experience or a Master’s with 10 or more years of relevant experience

- TS/SCI with Poly clearance

We offer a competitive salary range of $131,300.00 - $237,350.00 and a comprehensive benefits package, 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
- 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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