The Elasticsearch Engineer/Developer will develop, deploy, administer, upgrade, and monitor the Elastic Stack cluster within cloud and on-prem infrastructure, designed to deliver complex software products into a production environment. The ideal candidate is a hands-on Software Engineer and/or DevOps professional with significant experience in developing repeatable processes, tools, and infrastructure that enable the delivery of software in an on-demand cadence . They must have strong, firsthand technical expertise in a variety of configuration automation, deployment, and continuous integration technologies and the proven ability to fashion robust solutions that can keep pace with software development. They must be at ease working in an agile environment with little supervision. This person should embody a passion for continuous improvement and innovation.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Work with a team to provide software and systems engineering for Elastic Stack clusters in cloud and server-based environments in both the customer environment and company lab environment in a repeatable and reliable manner.
• Design, develop, test, debug, and deploy new software that utilizes the Elasticsearch cluster architecture.
• Provide guidance and direction to a software engineering team related to best practices for utilizing Elasticsearch, indexing, re-indexing, and developing with an Elastic backend.
• Work with automation tools for a robust Cl/CD pipeline, to include: Maven, Gitlab, Red Hat OpenShift, Docker, Ansible, and Puppet
• Write and update technical documentation such as system documentation, training materials, processes and procedures.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with software engineers, data scientists, analysts, project managers and other engineering groups.
• Provide ongoing support and enhancements for the Elastic Stack in production systems and platforms.
• Troubleshoots complex problems and provide customer support for software systems and application issues.
• Provide recommendations for continuous improvement.
• Work alongside other engineers on the team to sustain and advance our organization's capabilities.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or other related technical discipline, or equivalent combination of education, technical certifications, training, and work/military experience.
• 5 Years of experience
• TS/SCI with Polygraph

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Demonstrated hands-on experience building and deploying Elastic Stack infrastructure
• Demonstrated hands-on experience with software design as it relates to Elasticsearch deployments and distributed computing/system architecture
• Demonstrated hands-on experience with Linux-based systems, bash scripting, and working from the command line
• Demonstrated hands-on experience with build automation technologies like Git, Maven, etc.

• Demonstrated hands-on experience working with Docker, Kubernetes, and Kafka .
• Demonstrated experience with Gitlab

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Demonstrated experience with OpenShift
• Demonstrated hands-on experience with monitoring technologies like ELK, Prometheus, Grafana, etc.
• Demonstrated hands-on experience in programming and software development using Java, JavaScript, or Pyt hon.
• Demonstrated hands on experience working with PostgreSQL and Apache NiFi.
• Demonstrated hands-on experience working with Hadoop, Apache Spark and their related ecosystems.

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About Our Work

We are GDIT. The people supporting some of the most complex government, defense, and intelligence projects across the country. We deliver. Bringing the expertise needed to understand and advance critical missions. We transform. Shifting the ways clients invest in, integrate, and innovate technology solutions. We ensure today is safe and tomorrow is smarter. We are there. On the ground, beside our clients, in the lab, and everywhere in between. Offering the technology transformations, strategy, and mission services needed to get the job done.

COVID-19 Vaccination

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