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Elastic Search Engineer

Contract: Baltimore, Maryland, US

Salary Range: 70.00 - 75.00 | Per Hour

Job Code: 366021

End Date: 2025-12-21

Days Left: 21 days, 7 hours left

Client: Financial 
Job Title: Elastic Search Engineer   
Type -  6 month contract with possibility of extension or conversion
Location: Hybrid in Baltimore MD 
Pay range - $70-75/hr 
 
Must Haves:
  • 3-5+ 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.
 
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 holidays annually – as applicable

 
Job Requirement
  • Elastic Search
  • AWS
  • Cloud
  • Python
  • Ansible
  • Terraform
Reach Out to a Recruiter
  • Recruiter
  • Email
  • Phone
  • Abhijeet Sant
  • abhijeet.sant@collabera.com
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