Senior Elastic Observability Engineer
Core
Senior engineer responsible for monitoring, troubleshooting, and maintaining Elastic Stack clusters to ensure observability for application performance.
Role type
Senior IC Elastic Observability Engineer
Builds
Production observability platform supporting application performance monitoring (APM) and observability-driven development
Domain
Cloud Operations / IT Operations / Observability
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | infrastructure
Required skills
Linux/Unix administration, Elasticsearch cluster management, Kibana dashboard maintenance, Bash scripting, incident response, data validation, KQL/Lucene queries, runbook maintenance
Preferred skills
Elastic Stack (Agent, Logstash, Fleet, APM), Ansible, Python/PowerShell, OpenTelemetry, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, Azure, VMware
Technologies
Ansible, Azure, Bash, CI/CD, Docker, ElasticSearch, Kibana, Kubernetes, Linux, OpenTelemetry, PowerShell, Python, RabbitMQ, Terraform, Unix, VMware, Windows
Responsibilities
Respond to alerts and user-reported incidents; monitor and support Elasticsearch clusters, pipelines, Elastic Agent, Logstash, and Fleet; perform service restarts, ingestion checks, and configuration adjustments; apply Linux/Unix patches and handle OS maintenance; conduct cluster health, capacity, and storage status checks; maintain and build Kibana dashboards for operational visibility; validate log, metric, and trace data completeness and ECS alignment; maintain runbooks, SOPs, and troubleshooting documentation; provide escalation details to SRE, DevOps, and Security teams.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC