Sr. Elasticsearch Operations Engineer

Clearance: Must be eligible for a US Security Clearance (US Citizenship required)

Location: Reston, VA (Hybrid model)

As a Finch Senior Software Elasticsearch Operations Engineer, you join a dynamic and agile team in the development of new Finch products. Our Engineers work within dynamic teams leveraging Finch AI's expertise solving large data problems. We look for strong Engineers that thrive on solving challenges associated with creating new products and developing intellectual property. Our teams are comprised of successful people that enjoy solving problems, engaging in substantive technical discussions and have passion for their work. We have very high expectations in terms of skill, motivation, self-organization and productivity. We look for people who excel working in groups, virtual and collocated, as well as those who are comfortable with fast paced Agile development.

Responsibilities:

• Develop game-changing search products on top of Elasticsearch using Finch NLP to enable entity-driven search.
• Implement and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) for search functionality to ensure continuous performance enhancements.
• Perform continuous performance monitoring and provide and implement recommendations for improving system performance.
• Design and develop highly reliable cloud services for real-time data delivery.
• Understand product requirements and create solutions involving investigation, design, programming, and testing.
• Perform software testing and debugging to create high quality deliverables.
• Maintain or create documentation.
• Assist in creating and deploying software solutions.

Knowledge and Skills:

• Expert-level knowledge of Elasticsearch including Query design, Query optimization, Templates, Domain layout and optimization, Experience with Elasticsearch, Elasticsearch plugins, Backup and restore, Performance optimization, Troubleshooting.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Must be a team player with good collaboration skills.
• Experience with Agile development concepts
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Development experience with AWS cloud services (ECS, EKS, EC2 a plus)
• Experience with Docker, Git, CI/CD tools a plus
• Exposure to Atlassian stack tools (Jira, Confluence, etc.)

Education and work experience:

• Bachelor's degree in a related engineering field
• 5+ years working with Elasticsearch.
• 8+ years' experience in overall software development and distributed applications

About Finch AI

Finch AI is a fast-growing, fast-paced software development organization; our mission is to build new ways of interacting with information. We do that by leveraging game-changing intellectual property, cloud infrastructure expertise, and a staff that is second to none. Together, we build and support products that address complex, real-time data and analytics needs in the enterprise.

Our teams are comprised of successful people that enjoy solving problems, engaging in substantive technical discussions and have passion for their work. We have very high expectations in terms of skill, motivation, self-organization and productivity. We look for people who excel working in groups, virtual and collocated, as well as those who are comfortable with fast paced agile development.

Finch AI is an equal opportunity employer.