diff --git a/index.d.ts b/index.d.ts
index c020b5c12..d645fd9f3 100644
--- a/index.d.ts
+++ b/index.d.ts
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 /// <reference types="node" />
 
 import { EventEmitter } from 'events';
-import { SecureContextOptions } from 'tls';
+import { ConnectionOptions as TlsConnectionOptions } from 'tls';
 import Transport, {
   ApiResponse,
   RequestEvent,
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ import Transport, {
   generateRequestIdFn,
   TransportRequestCallback
 } from './lib/Transport';
+import { URL } from 'url';
 import Connection, { AgentOptions, agentFn } from './lib/Connection';
 import ConnectionPool, { ResurrectEvent } from './lib/ConnectionPool';
 import Serializer from './lib/Serializer';
@@ -72,8 +73,22 @@ interface ClientExtends {
 }
 // /Extend API
 
+interface NodeOptions {
+  url: URL;
+  id?: string;
+  agent?: AgentOptions;
+  ssl?: TlsConnectionOptions;
+  headers?: anyObject;
+  roles?: {
+    master: boolean;
+    data: boolean;
+    ingest: boolean;
+    ml: boolean;
+  }
+}
+
 interface ClientOptions {
-  node?: string | string[];
+  node?: string | string[] | NodeOptions | NodeOptions[];
   nodes?: string | string[];
   Connection?: typeof Connection;
   ConnectionPool?: typeof ConnectionPool;
@@ -89,7 +104,7 @@ interface ClientOptions {
   resurrectStrategy?: 'ping' | 'optimistic' | 'none';
   suggestCompression?: boolean;
   compression?: 'gzip';
-  ssl?: SecureContextOptions;
+  ssl?: TlsConnectionOptions;
   agent?: AgentOptions | agentFn;
   nodeFilter?: nodeFilterFn;
   nodeSelector?: nodeSelectorFn | string;
@@ -327,5 +342,6 @@ export {
   ResurrectEvent,
   RequestParams,
   ClientOptions,
+  NodeOptions,
   ClientExtendsCallbackOptions
 };
diff --git a/lib/Connection.d.ts b/lib/Connection.d.ts
index 0c49207af..f2ab8532a 100644
--- a/lib/Connection.d.ts
+++ b/lib/Connection.d.ts
@@ -22,13 +22,13 @@
 import { URL } from 'url';
 import { inspect, InspectOptions } from 'util';
 import * as http from 'http';
-import { SecureContextOptions } from 'tls';
+import { ConnectionOptions as TlsConnectionOptions } from 'tls';
 
 export declare type agentFn = () => any;
 
 interface ConnectionOptions {
   url: URL;
-  ssl?: SecureContextOptions;
+  ssl?: TlsConnectionOptions;
   id?: string;
   headers?: any;
   agent?: AgentOptions | agentFn;
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ export default class Connection {
     ML: string;
   };
   url: URL;
-  ssl: SecureContextOptions | null;
+  ssl: TlsConnectionOptions | null;
   id: string;
   headers: any;
   deadCount: number;
diff --git a/test/types/index.ts b/test/types/index.ts
index 6f97182d4..2aa0526e9 100644
--- a/test/types/index.ts
+++ b/test/types/index.ts
@@ -27,13 +27,29 @@ import {
   ResurrectEvent,
   events,
   errors,
-  ClientExtendsCallbackOptions
+  ClientExtendsCallbackOptions,
+  NodeOptions
 } from '../../index'
 
 import { TransportRequestParams, TransportRequestOptions } from '../../lib/Transport'
+import { URL } from 'url'
 
 const client = new Client({ node: 'http://localhost:9200' })
 
+const nodeOpts: NodeOptions = {
+  url: new URL('http://localhost:9200'),
+  id: 'winteriscoming',
+  headers: { 'foo': 'bar' },
+  roles: {
+    master: false,
+    data: true,
+    ingest: false,
+    ml: false
+  }
+}
+
+const client2 = new Client({ node: nodeOpts })
+
 client.on(events.RESPONSE, (err: errors.ElasticsearchClientError | null, request: RequestEvent) => {
   if (err) console.log(err)
   const { body, statusCode } = request