Senior Elasticsearch Database Admin
Listed on 2026-05-30
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IT/Tech
Data Engineer, Systems Engineer
Workplace Type : Remote -Region : San Francisco, CA
Job Requirements
• Requires experience in Developing Elastic (ELK) Dashboards, Report, Alerts, Visualizations and Optimize searches
• Effective verbal and written communication skills to consult with management, partners, and vendors
• Effective organizational skills and the ability to manage frequent interruptions and multiple priorities
• Design data models to store and scale with peta-bytes of data
• Productize novel AI models and define data flow in our pipeline
• Design configurable platform to deploy and run different AI models
• Design and build scalable microservices
• Implement and test recovery techniques
• Diagnose and troubleshoot Elasticsearch environment
• Fine-tune Elasticsearch environment or make tuning recommendations
• Writing and optimizing Elasticsearch queries
• Ability to relate well with coworkers and vendor representatives, providing guidance
• Performing Elastic (ELK) Admin/Production Support with the team and assist with duties as an architect
• Requires understanding of Elastic (ELK) to assist components to include but not limited to:
Elastic (ELK) Search Processing Language (SPL), Enterprise Security (ES), HTTP Event Collector (HEC), Deployment Servers, Universal Forwarders (UF), Indexer, and Heavy Forwarders (HF)
• Looking for an Elastic Engineer. They are working to onboard about 80-100 applications and infrastructure logs into Elastic
• They will have a lot of face time with the business, so need solid communication skills
• They'll need an elastic background
• Will be engaging with app and infra teams, required to present to them the framework and help them onboard their logs into elastic. Will work with a tenured elastic engineer
Qualifications
• 4+ years of experience in setting up Elastic cluster, management, and monitoring on both Elastic cloud and on-premise environment.
• Proven experience in managing Elasticsearch database configurations
• Excellent understanding of relevant search-related concepts
• Experience in tuning the Elasticsearch search performance and query optimization on petabytes of data.
• Experience in tuning the Elasticsearch indexing performance to have an indexing rate of 100k documents per second or more.
• Experience in optimization of text search queries, relevance scoring, tokenizers, analyzers for searching
• Experience in cross cluster replication, index lifecycle management and hot-warm architectures
• Architect, design, install, support, and maintain Elastic (ELK) infrastructure for a highly available and disaster recovery configuration
• Assist with duties as an Administer Elastic (ELK) and Elastic (ELK) Application for Enterprise Monitoring and Tools (EMT)
• Performance tuning, index lifecycle and maintenance
• Standardize Elastic (ELK) agent deployment, configuration and maintenance across a variety of UNIX and Windows platforms
• Troubleshoot Elastic (ELK) server and agent problems and issues
• Assist internal users of Elastic (ELK) in designing and maintaining production-quality dashboards
• Mentor members of the technical staff to support and assist in Elastic (ELK)-related activities
• Mentor users and other groups on their use of Elastic (ELK)
• Monitor the agent and server infrastructure for capacity planning and optimization
• Design core systems performance and troubleshooting logs
• Support Elastic (ELK) on Unix and Linux platforms
• Solve complex Integration challenges and debug complex configuration issues
• Technical writing/creation of formal documentation such as architecture diagrams, technical designs, and SOPs
• Agile Methodology
• Knowledge of user interface frameworks, Java, Application servers
• Knowledge of full software development lifecycle
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• A positive goal orientated attitude with a focus on delivery
• Requires experience in building and maintaining large-scale 7.x Elastic (ELK) platforms
• Requires experience on-boarding new Elastic (ELK) logs
• Requires experience with administration, architecture, and engineering
• Requires Linux Administration experience
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or other related field or…
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