# Elastic Search Engineer

**Company**: Leidos
**Location**: Bethesda, MD
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $107,900.00 - $195,050.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Leidos is seeking an Elastic Search Engineer to join a high-energy team building and deploying a cutting-edge technology stack to support the client's mission to centralize and standardize Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) across the DoD and IC enterprise.

As an Elastic Search Engineer, you'll be a member of the platform engineering team and help develop, deploy, and maintain NoSQL databases as foundational elements of the microservice ecosystem using Kubernetes as the foundational platform.

**Key Responsibilities Include:**

- Deploy, triage, debug, and maintain production-class databases like Elasticsearch and Redis

- Design and support database configuration management strategies across air-gapped network fabrics

- Partner with Systems Engineers to architect solutions for new capabilities

- Contribute to operational monitoring capabilities to provide proactive system notifications

- Contribute technical input to engineering documentation, diagrams, and models

- Participate in Agile release planning, scrums, design sessions, bug triage, and related team activities

**Requirements:**

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent experience) with 8+ years of relevant experience; Master's degree with 6+ years of experience

- Active TS/SCI security clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain a Polygraph

- Current DoD 8570.01M IAT Level II (or higher) certification

- Ability to obtain and maintain Privileged User Account (PUA) certification

- Experience with Kubernetes and container platforms such as EKS, Rancher, or RKE2

- Experience with designing, maintaining, and tuning Elasticsearch databases

- Experience with one or more of the following: Keycloak, Redis, Strimzi

- Experience working with open-source technologies and modern infrastructure platforms

- Experience hardening databases to comply with NIST 800-53 security controls

- Strong knowledge of Linux system administration

- Experience deploying, managing, and troubleshooting containerized applications

- Strong written and verbal communication skills

- Ability to collaborate effectively with customers, engineers, architects, and cross-functional teams

**Nice to Have:**

- Experience with microservices architecture

- Proficiency in scripting for automation and operational tooling (UNIX shell, Perl, or similar)

- Experience with Helm Chart templating

- Experience with ArgoCD

- Knowledge of REST APIs, web services, networking, and internet protocols

- Experience and domain knowledge related to data processing

- Experience with big data applications

- Experience supporting DIA, NDOC, and/or D3P

- OSINT familiarity

## Skills

### Required
- Kubernetes
- Elasticsearch
- Redis
- Keycloak
- Strimzi
- Linux system administration
- containerization
- NIST 800-53 security controls

### Nice to have
- microservices architecture
- scripting
- Helm Chart templating
- ArgoCD
- REST APIs
- data processing
- big data applications
- DIA
- NDOC
- D3P
- OSINT

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