ElasticSearch Systems Engineer (2025-0118)
Acclaim Technical Services2 months ago
Bethesda, MD, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$190k - $200k/yr
Responsibilities
- Maintain Elasticsearch clusters across multiple cloud availability zones and on-premises environments.
- Evaluate and tune cluster configuration, indexing, search, query performance, security, and administration.
- Maintain infrastructure for performance and data integrity and upgrade clusters as permitted by dependent applications.
- Create and customize clusters for development and business needs, including logging and enterprise search.
- Troubleshoot unassigned shards, automation issues, node failures, and cluster failures.
- Implement Elasticsearch best practices, security controls, monitoring, and alerting.
- Collaborate with architecture, engineering, development, and operations teams on scalable and stable production deliverables.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of Elasticsearch administration experience.
- Direct experience maintaining and integrating Elasticsearch within an operational enterprise information system.
- Experience deploying and using Elasticsearch in AWS, Google Cloud, or Azure.
- Experience working in an Agile development environment and tempo.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Master’s degree and 15 or more years of prior relevant experience.
- TS/SCI clearance and polygraph required.
- Preferred: experience working on customer systems and understanding customer system development policies.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation, career growth, and learning and development opportunities.
- Comprehensive benefits including healthcare, wellness, financial, retirement, family support, continuing education, and time off benefits.
- Employee Stock Ownership Plan participation.
- On-site support for a federal program in Bethesda, Maryland.
About Acclaim Technical Services
Acclaim Technical Services provides language, intelligence, and technology services to U.S. federal and national security agencies, spanning translation, interpretation, document exploitation, geolocation, data visualization, and systems integration. Founded in 2000 and headquartered in Reston, VA, it operates as an employee‑owned ESOP and privately held government contractor. The company supports missions across 100+ languages and staffs cleared roles within the intelligence community.