Position Summary
Base-2 Solutions is seeking an Elastic Search Engineer to join a high-energy platform engineering team focused on building and deploying cutting-edge technology stacks to support mission-critical Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) TCPED across the DoD and Intelligence Community. The role involves developing, deploying, and maintaining NoSQL databases within a Kubernetes microservice ecosystem and supporting GitOps best practices in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Deploy, triage, debug, and maintain production class databases like Elasticsearch and Redis.
- Design and support database configuration management strategies across air-gapped network fabrics.
- Partner with Systems Engineers to architect solutions for new capabilities.
- Contribute to operational monitoring capabilities to provide proactive system notifications.
- Contribute technical input to engineering documentation, diagrams, and models.
- Participate in Agile release planning, scrums, design sessions, bug triage, and related team activities.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent experience) with 8+ years of relevant experience; Master's degree with 6+ years of experience.
- Current DoD 8570.01M IAT Level II (or higher) certification, such as Security+, CySA+, SSCP, CCNA Security, or CISSP (or Associate).
- Ability to obtain and maintain Privileged User Account (PUA) certification.
- Experience with Kubernetes and container platforms such as EKS, Rancher, or RKE2.
- Experience with one or more of the following: Elasticsearch, Keycloak, Redis, Strimzi.
- Experience working with open-source technologies and modern infrastructure platforms.
- Experience hardening databases to comply with NIST 800-53 security controls.
- Strong knowledge of Linux system administration.
- Experience deploying, managing, and troubleshooting containerized applications.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with customers, engineers, architects, and cross-functional teams.
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with team members from diverse technical backgrounds.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with micro services architecture.
- Proficiency in scripting for automation and operational tooling (UNIX shell, Perl, or similar).
- Experience with Helm Chart templating.
- Experience with ArgoCD.
- Knowledge of REST APIs, web services, networking, and internet protocols.
- Experience and domain knowledge related to data processing.
- Experience with big data applications.
- Experience supporting DIA, NDOC, and/or D3P.
- OSINT familiarity.
Required Education and Experience Equivalency
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent experience) with 8+ years of relevant experience.
- Master's degree with 6+ years of experience.
Required Certifications
- Current DoD 8570.01M IAT Level II (or higher) certification, such as Security+, CySA+, SSCP, CCNA Security, or CISSP (or Associate).
- Ability to obtain and maintain Privileged User Account (PUA) certification.
Required Security Clearance