Senior Elasticsearch Administrator

We are a federal IT company on a mission to make customer experience (CX) the center of every government solution.
Technology is our Passion. People are our Purpose.
We know tech, but we love people. NuAxis is home to thinkers and feelers; engineers and artists. We work hard and support each other along the way. Teamwork is more than just a buzzword for us, it’s a state of mind.
We believe happy employees do amazing work, so join our team NOW! We are currently seeking a Senior Elasticsearch Administrator for a Full-Time position.
Job Summary:
Manages Elasticsearch cluster administration, configuration, indexing strategies, performance tuning, security, and monitoring.
Key Responsibilities
Administer Elasticsearch clusters including node management, sharding, and scaling.
Design index mappings, templates, lifecycle policies, and ingest pipelines.
Tune query and indexing performance; optimize search relevance and throughput.
Configure security controls, authentication, authorization, and encryption.
Implement monitoring, alerting, snapshot, and recovery procedures.
Manage data lifecycle, retention, and storage optimization.
Minimum Qualifications
Minimum Education: Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field; OR an Associate's degree plus two (2) additional years of relevant experience. Two (2) years of specialized experience may substitute for one (1) year of the academic requirement.
Minimum Experience: Five (5) to eight (8) years of Elasticsearch or search platform administration experience.
Certifications — Required: Elastic Certified Engineer.
Certifications — Obtainable After Hire: Elastic Certified Analyst or Elastic Certified Observability Engineer, within 180 days of assignment.
Certifications — Preferred: AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate; Linux Professional Institute Certification; CompTIA Security+.
Required Skills: Elasticsearch cluster management; index configuration and optimization; query performance tuning; security configuration; monitoring and alerting; data lifecycle management; backup and recovery.
Preferred Skills: ELK Stack; Beats integration; cloud deployment; large-scale production environments; federal sector experience.
Technical Environment
Elasticsearch and Kibana; Logstash and Beats (Filebeat, Metricbeat); index lifecycle management and data tiers; Elastic Security with role-based access control and TLS; snapshot and restore to Amazon S3 or Azure Blob Storage; OpenSearch and Amazon OpenSearch Service; Grafana and Prometheus monitoring; Linux administration and JVM tuning
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Our Profile:
We are an IT company with a unique mission—to make people the center of every federal IT solution. Our technologists have always gone the extra mile to help our federal clients succeed. And over the years, we saw a growing disconnect in how federal IT initiatives were built and managed. Time after time, programs failed because the focus was on the tools and products and not the people using them. Learn More .
NuAxis is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment is contingent upon successful completion of a background investigation. Learn More about our Benefits and Culture!

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