Senior Elastic Engineer

Role Overview
The Senior Elastic Engineer leads the design, optimization, and strategic evolution of Elastic environments that support advanced security and observability use cases. This role combines deep hands-on engineering with architectural leadership, with responsibility for scalability, resilience, platform standards, and complex solution design across enterprise environments.Key Responsibilities
Lead the architecture, design, and continuous improvement of enterprise Elastic environmentsDefine and enforce best practices for scalability, resilience, lifecycle management, and operational excellenceSupport andoptimizeplatform strategy for high availability, retention, performance, and cost efficiencyLead root cause analysis and resolution of complexplatform,pipeline, and data issuesDesign and govern ingestion pipelines, data models, and normalization standards aligned to ECSBuild andoptimizeadvanced Logstash and ingest pipelines for high-volume and diverse data sourcesLead large-scale Elastic Agent and Fleet deployments with strong operational standards for endpoint and observability use casesDrive integration of diverse security and observability telemetry sources with high data qualityDesign andoptimizeAWS-backed Elastic infrastructure, including S3, compute, networking, IAM, and related cloud servicesDesign production gradeCI/CD pipelines.Leverage AWS services for snapshot strategy, retention, archival, and broader platform operationsMonitor andoptimizecost drivers across compute, storage, ingestion, and retentionAutomate infrastructure provisioning and configuration using infrastructure-as-codeDesign advanced Kibana dashboards, detection workflows, observability views, and executive reportingPartner with detection engineering, infrastructure, and leadership teams to define requirements and roadmap prioritiesIdentifyopportunities to improve detection coverage, platform reliability, and observability maturityMentor engineers, review technical designs, and contribute to platform roadmap planningElastic Certified EngineerElastic Certified Observability Engineer5+ years of hands-on experience with enterprise Elastic environmentsStrong experience with Elastic Security and Elastic ObservabilityExpert-level knowledge of Elasticsearch architecture, including indexing, sharding, replication, search, and query performanceExpertiseinElasticsearch template optimization and relevancefine-tuning.Proven experienceoperatinglarge,highly availableElasticsearch clusters in productionDeepexpertisein capacity planning, cluster optimization, scaling, and platform hardeningAdvancedproficiencyin Elasticsearch Query DSL and search optimizationStrong programming and automation skills in Python, Java, Ruby, or similar languagesProven cybersecurity background with experience in threat detection, attack techniques, telemetry, and defensive operationsDeep knowledge of Elastic security controls, including RBAC, encryption, detection rules, machine learning, and AI Assistant capabilitiesExtensive experience with data parsing, enrichment, and transformation using GROK, DISSECT, Logstash, and Elasticsearch ingest pipelinesExperience with advanced detections, Watchers, dashboards, and observability viewsStrong experience supporting Elastic deployments in AWS-backed environmentsWorking knowledge of AWS services,including S3, compute, networking, IAM, monitoring, and cost managementStrong Linux administration skills in distributed data platform environmentsDemonstrated ability to lead technical initiatives and communicate effectively across engineering and business stakeholdersPreferred Qualifications
Experience leading platform modernization or migration initiativesExperience designing multi-cluster or multi-region ElasticarchitecturesExperience building reusable engineering standards, patterns, and operational playbooksExperience mentoring engineers in enterprise platform teamsWhat We Offer
Competitive compensation packageCompetitive benefits packageCompany events, recognitions, and celebrationsCareer development and growth opportunitiesAt Jolera, we are committed to creating a diverse, equal and inclusive. Our goal is to attract and retain the best talent while embracing diversity in all its forms. We value and respect differences in ethnic background, gender, age, religion, identity, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
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