Elastic Administrator - Clusters

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Systems Administration

Elastic Administrator – Clusters

Location:

New York, NY

Job

Category:
Systems Administration

Position Type:
Full Time

Duration: 12 months

Shift: 1

Remaining Positions: 3

We are seeking an experienced Elastic SME to support the development, operation, and ongoing management of our on‑premise Elasticsearch platform within a security‑focused environment at Core Weave.

• Administer and operate Elastic clusters on Kubernetes using ECK and data streams (deployment, scaling, upgrades)
• Manage day‑2 operations: monitoring, incident response, troubleshooting, and performance tuning
• Implement backup/restore, high availability, and disaster recovery strategies
• Optimize indexing, ES|QL query performance, and cluster health
• Support security configurations (RBAC, access control, audit logging)
• Maintain operational runbooks and documentation
• Take part in the on‑call rotation (1 week 24
  * 7 on call per month)

• SRE, Production Engineering, Dev Ops
• Kubernetes (MUST)
• Elastic Search (MUST)
• Monitoring and Alerting using Grafana (MUST)

Fast‑paced, supportive, trustworthy and accountable, exciting work and not just maintenance.

• Strong hands‑on experience with Elastic stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Fleet Server, Elastic Agent and Search Ingest Pipeline)
• Proven experience in production support / Day 2 operations
• Experience managing on‑premise Kubernetes infrastructure
• Solid understanding of Linux systems, networking, and storageI
• Experience with monitoring and alerting tools such as Loki, Grafana, Prometheus, Victoria Metrics
• Automation using scripting (Python, Bash, etc.)

• Experience in security environments or SIEM use cases
• Experience using Kafka at high scale as part of log ingestion pipeline

$65.00 - $70.00