Sr. Elastic Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and maintain Elastic Stack environments, including Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, Beats, and Fleet.
• Build and optimize ingestion pipelines, index strategies, search queries, dashboards, and automation workflows.
• Write scripts, automation, and integrations (Python, PowerShell, Bash, etc.) to streamline operations, data processing, and monitoring.
• Deploy Elastic across platforms, including on-premises, public cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP), GovCloud, and containerized environments (Kubernetes, Docker, OpenShift).
• Leverage automation and orchestration tools such as Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD pipelines, and Docker to manage deployments and operational tasks.
• Integrate Elastic with enterprise tools such as SIEMs, Splunk, CrowdStrike, and other telemetry sources.
• Monitor system health, troubleshoot performance issues, and optimize for reliability and scalability.
• Lead design reviews, provide guidance on Elastic best practices, and support knowledge sharing across teams.
• Maintain documentation for architectures, deployment patterns, runbooks, and operational best practices.
• Stay current with Elastic features, certifications, and emerging platform capabilities.