SkillBridge Intern Associate Consultant

Elastic is a free and open search company that powers enterprise search, observability, and security solutions built on one technology stack that can be deployed anywhere. From finding documents to monitoring infrastructure to hunting for threats, Elastic makes data usable in real-time and at scale. Thousands of organizations worldwide, including Barclays, Cisco, eBay, Fairfax, ING, Goldman Sachs, Microsoft, The Mayo Clinic, NASA, The New York Times, Wikipedia, and Verizon, use Elastic to power mission-critical systems. Founded in 2012, Elastic is a distributed company with Elasticians around the globe. Learn more at elastic.co.

At Elastic, we have a simple goal: to solve the world's data problems with products that delight and inspire. As the company behind the popular open source projects — Elasticsearch, Kibana, Beats, and Logstash — we help people around the world do great things with their data. From stock quotes to Twitter streams, Apache logs to WordPress blogs, our products are extending what's possible with data, delivering on the promise that good things come from connecting the dots. We unite Elasticians across 30+ countries (and counting!), 18 timezones, and 30 different languages into one coherent team, while the broader community spans across over 100 countries.

We are currently seeking a Skillbridge Intern to join our consulting team.  THIS POSITION MUST BE Eligible to begin Skillbridge between  July, August, September OR October. For a minimum of 2-4 months.  The successful candidate will learn and develop skills to deliver Elastic solutions to customers!

What skills you will be focusing and building upon during the internship:

• Developing automated solutions for deploying Elastic stack components (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Beats) in a repeatable and scalable fashion.
• Working with Ingest and Architecture teams to create deployment roles for all components of the Elastic Stack.
• Working with documentation teams to create deployment guides.
• Monitoring and maintaining Stack and infrastructure performance.
• Comfortable working remotely in a highly distributed team
• Development of demos and proof-of-concepts that highlight the value of the Elastic Stack
• Data modeling, query development and optimization, cluster tuning and scaling with a focus on fast search and analytics at scale
• Technology workshops that include hands-on mentoring, whiteboarding, and solution development
• Solving our customers’ most challenging data problems
• Working closely with the Elastic engineering, product management, and support teams to identify feature enhancements, extensions, and product defects
• Engaging with the Elastic Sales team to scope opportunities while assessing technical risks, questions, or concerns
• Mentoring Elastic team members on new technology and solutions 

What you bring along or have a foundation to build upon!

• Active U.S. Federal security clearance - Top Secret or higher 
• Located in or around the DC area (or if offered full time employment, relocate)
• Experience with the ELK stack; preferred Elastic Certified Engineer, etc. 
• Proficient in Ansible (Open to Terraform, Chef, Puppet...)
• Preferred hands-on experience with automating elastic stack features 
• Hands-on experience with large distributed systems from an architecture and development perspective
• Great presentation skills with the ability to speak in front of audiences both large and small
• Knowledge of information retrieval and/or analytics domain

Bonus Points

• Security+
• CISSP
• IAT Level II
• TS SCI+poly

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Additional Information - We Take Care of Our People

As a distributed company, diversity drives our identity. Whether you’re looking to launch a new career or grow an existing one, Elastic is the type of company where you can balance great work with great life. Your age is only a number. It doesn’t matter if you’re just out of college or your children are; we need you for what you can do.

We strive to have parity of benefits across regions and while regulations differ from place to place, we believe taking care of our people is the right thing to do.

• Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary
• Health coverage for you and your family in many locations
• Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles
• Generous number of vacation days each year
• Double your charitable giving - We match up to $1500 (or local currency equivalent)
• Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love
• Embracing parenthood with minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave

Different people approach problems differently. We need that. Elastic is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law, ordinance or regulation.

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