Elastic Search Engineer

Job Requirements Reston, VA Bethesda, MD Fredericksburg, VA Alexandria, VA Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD Top Secret Polygraph not specified Career Level not specified $160,000 - $180,000 Job Description •This position is onsite in Huntsville, Alabama at Redstone Arsenal•

Hiring:

Elasticsearch / Search-Focused Engineer or Data Scientist (Cleared) We're looking for someone with a strong background building Elasticsearch-backed search systems and scalable data pipelines in production environments.

Location:

Huntsville, AL (Redstone Arsenal)

Supports:

FBI Program Clearance:

Top Secret Minimum If you've designed search platforms that support large, unstructured datasets and real-world mission use cases, this one's for you. ✅ Core Skills We're Targeting Search & Data Platforms Elasticsearch (indexing, querying, relevance tuning, access controls) Search across unstructured data (text, images, video, documents) High-volume data ingestion and retrieval pipelines API-driven search services Backend & Data Engineering Python (production-grade services) SQL FastAPI / Flask Data ingestion, ETL, and pipeline orchestration Dockerized applications Linux (Ubuntu), Bash, CLI tools Git-based workflows ML / Analytics (Applied, Not Academic) NLP pipelines (topic modeling, sentiment analysis, entity extraction) Search + ML integration (ranking, enrichment, retrieval augmentation) Experience supporting downstream analytics and dashboards Familiarity with vector search / embeddings a plus Cloud & Enterprise Tools AWS and/or Azure Databricks / Spark / PySpark CI/CD fundamentals Monitoring, logging, and performance optimization Nice-to-Have / Bonus Experience in DoD, IC, or austere environments Building search for shared drives or large document repositories Handling image / video / text data in a unified search platform Prior work with Palantir, Foundry, or similar platforms What This Role Feels Like Designing and owning Elasticsearch implementations, not just querying them Turning messy, real-world data into fast, usable search products Working closely with analysts, engineers, and stakeholders Building systems that actually get used group id: kforcecx N Name Hidden Talent Associate Apply now