Elastic Search Engineer

Client - Financial Services

Title - Elastic Search Engineer

Location - Baltimore MD Hybrid

Type - Contract

Pay Range - $70-75/hr

DayToDay Responsbilities:

• Architect & build large-scale Elasticsearch and ELK stack solutions (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana).


• Manage operations: monitor clusters, tune performance, handle indexing, query optimization, and resolve incidents.


• Automate infrastructure using Terraform, Ansible, Python, and CI/CD tools.


• Collaborate cross-functionally with DevOps, AppDev, and Security teams to integrate Elasticsearch into broader systems and pipelines.


• Perform upgrades and migrations with minimal downtime. Maintain documentation: architecture diagrams, runbooks, dashboards, and metrics. Evaluate new Elastic features and lead proofs-of-concept for advanced capabilities (e.g., ML, cross-cluster replication).


• Drive continuous improvement by identifying automation and performance enhancement opportunities.

Must Haves:

• 5+ years hands-on experience managing Elasticsearch in enterprise environments.


• Proven ability to design, deploy, and maintain ELK/Elastic Stack at scale.


• Strong knowledge of Elasticsearch internals -nodes, shards, replicas, indexing, APIs, aggregations.


• Expertise in automation and scripting (Python, Bash, Ansible, Terraform).


• Solid experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform) and container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker). Understanding of distributed systems, networking, and storage concepts.


• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps principles. Strong troubleshooting, performance tuning, and communication skills.

Plusses:

• Elastic Certified Engineer / Observability Engineer. AWS or Azure certifications.


• Experience migrating Elasticsearch from on-prem to cloud.


• Security and compliance monitoring exposure. SRE or software development background.

Benefits:

The Company offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements: medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, 401(k) retirement plan, life insurance, long-term disability insurance, short-term disability insurance, paid parking/public transportation, paid time off, paid sick and safe time, hours of paid vacation time, weeks of paid parental leave, and paid holidays annually as applicable.