Elasticsearch

Title: Elastic Search Engineer Location: Baltimore MD (21202) or Evansville IN 47708(Hybrid) Contract Length: 6 months with extension or conversion Pay Range: $65 - $72/Hour 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, GCP) 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. • AWS or Azure certifications. • Experience migrating Elasticsearch from on-prem to cloud. • Security and compliance monitoring exposure. • SRE or software development background. D2D: • 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. 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.