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Leidos Inc

Principal Elasticsearch Systems Engineer

Leidos Inc, Bethesda, Maryland, us, 20811

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Job Description Principal Elasticsearch Systems Engineer

– National Security Sector's (NSS) Cyber & Analytics Business Area (CABA) at

Leidos .

Job Summary The Principal Elasticsearch Systems Engineer supports an Agile team in a DevSecOps environment, providing design, configuration, maintenance, and troubleshooting for a large enterprise Elasticsearch deployment across AWS cloud and on‑prem environments. The role collaborates with architecture, engineering, development, and operations teams to ensure production scalability, stability, and data integrity.

Job Responsibilities

Maintain Elasticsearch clusters in a multi‑availability zone cloud environment.

Optimize and tune Elasticsearch clusters for performance, search, indexing, and security.

Ensure clusters run under optimal conditions and are upgraded as allowed by dependent applications.

Maintain infrastructure to guarantee performance and data integrity.

Basic Qualifications

3+ years of experience with Elasticsearch administration.

Direct experience maintaining and integrating Elasticsearch within an operational enterprise information system.

Experience in an Agile development environment.

Experience deploying Elasticsearch on commercial cloud platforms (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure).

Bachelor's degree with 12+ years of relevant experience or Master's with 10+ years (additional work experience may substitute).

TS/SCI with Poly is required.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience working on the customer’s systems.

Understanding of customer system development policies.

Additional certifications related to Elasticsearch.

EEO Statement All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law. Leidos will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with relevant laws.

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