Elasticsearch Administrator

Who we are

We're a leading, global security authority that's disrupting our own category.  Our encryption is trusted by the major ecommerce brands, the world's largest companies, the major cloud providers, entire country financial systems, entire internets of things and even down to the little things like surgically embedded pacemakers.  We help companies put trust - an abstract idea - to work. That's digital trust for the real world.

Job summary

We are seeking an experienced Elasticsearch Administrator with 3+ years of hands-on experience to join our team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for the design, implementation, maintenance, and optimization of our Elasticsearch environments. You will collaborate with a global team of administrators to design, automate, build, operate, and continuously enhance the indexing services that support our customer-facing SaaS products.

What you will do

• Monitor cluster health, performance, and resource utilization
• Implement security best practices including authentication, authorization, and encryption
• Develop and execute backup and recovery strategies
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex Elasticsearch issues
• Perform cluster upgrades and patches with minimal downtime
• Optimize query performance and data indexing strategies
• Collaborate with development teams to implement efficient search solutions
• Create and maintain documentation for Elasticsearch configurations and procedures
• Implement high-availability and disaster recovery solutions
• Act as a backup for other team members when necessary.
• Provide on-call support and working off-hours as needed to ensure reliability and availability
• Bi-weekly rotating shifts are necessary to ensure coverage during weekends

What you will have

• 3+ years of hands-on experience administering Elasticsearch clusters
• Strong understanding of Elasticsearch architecture and core concepts
• Experience with Kibana, Logstash, and Beats (ELK/Elastic Stack)
• Proficiency in Linux/Unix operating systems and shell scripting
• Knowledge of JVM tuning and garbage collection optimization
• Experience with monitoring tools for Elasticsearch
• Familiarity with containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication abilities
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment working on projects against strict deadlines.
• Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams, including developers, system reliability engineers and other business units
• Ability to diagnose and troubleshoot user facing service incidents & outages

Nice to have

• Elasticsearch certification
• Experience with cloud-based Elasticsearch deployments (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Experience with monitoring tools and techniques (e.g., New Relic, Splunk, etc.)
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code
• Background in performance tuning for large-scale search applications
• Experience with automation or CI/CD tools, such as Terraform, Ansible, GitLab or SaltStack

Benefits

• Generous time off policies
• Top shelf benefits
• Education, wellness and lifestyle support

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