Elastic Stack Engineer / Developer (2022-0008)

Company: Acclaim Technical Services
Location: Chantilly
Posted on: January 20, 2023

Job Description:

Acclaim Technical Services, founded in 2000, is a leading language and intelligence services company supporting a wide range of U.S. Federal agencies. We are an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) company, which is uncommon within our business sector. We see this as a significant strength, and it shows: ATS is consistently ranked as a top workplace among DC area firms and continues to grow.
We are actively hiring an Elastic Stack Engineer / Developer to join our Mission Technology working in Chantilly, VA. 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.
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 CI/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.
  Required Education & Experience
  
  • Must possess an active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph
  • 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.
  • 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
    Preferred Skills
    
    • 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 Python.
    • Demonstrated hands on experience working with PostgreSQL and Apache NiFi.
    • Demonstrated hands-on experience working with Hadoop, Apache Spark and their related ecosystems.
      COVID-19 Proof Of Vaccination Requirements
      To protect the health and safety of its employees and to comply with customer requirements, ATS may require employees in certain positions to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 or test on a weekly basis. Vaccination requirements will depend on the status of the federal contractor mandate and customer site requirements.
      Equal Employment Opportunity / Affirmative Action
      ATS is committed to a program of equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, ethnicity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, sex, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, religion/creed, hairstyles and hair textures, handicap/disability, genetic information/history, military/veteran status, or any other characteristic or condition protected by federal, state or local law. It is the policy of ATS not merely to refrain from employment discrimination as required by the various federal, state, and local enactments, but to take positive affirmative action to realize for women, people of color, individuals with disabilities and protected veterans full equal employment opportunity. We support the employment and advancement in employment of individuals with disabilities and of protected veterans, and we treat qualified individuals without discrimination on the basis of their physical or mental disability or veteran status.
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