Overview
On Site
$60.0000 - $80.0000
Full Time
Skills
Elasticsearch
Observability
Python
SRE
Ansible
CI/CD
Pipelines
Network
Job Details
Title: Elastic Search Engineer
Location: Baltimore MD (21202) or Evansville IN 47708 (onsite 3 day a week 2 day WFH)
Contract Length: 6 months with extension or conversion
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 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.
- Nice-to-Haves / Plusses:
- Elastic Certified Engineer / Observability Engineer.
- Experience migrating Elasticsearch from on-prem to cloud.
- Security and compliance monitoring exposure.
- SRE or software development background.
Day to Day:
- 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.
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 holiday annually as applicable.
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