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# ElasticSearch Systems Engineer

- **Company:** Acclaim Technical Services
- **Location:** Bethesda, MD, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $190,000.0 - $200,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Query Performance, Agile Methodology, Amazon Web Services, Systems Engineering, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Computing, Data Integrity, Elasticsearch, Performance Tuning, Systems Development Life Cycle, Systems Integration, Enterprise Search, Data Logging, Google Cloud, Indexer, Devsecops
- **Published:** September 27, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/16_98e2882d11

## About the Role

* 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.

Preferred Qualifications:

 * Experience working on customer's systems
 * Understanding of customer's system development policies

## Description

We are actively hiring ElasticSearch Systems Engineer with TS/SCI clearance and polygraph to support a program in Bethesda, MD. 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., * 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


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