Project: Company is standing up a new application environment and needs an Elasticsearch Administrator to join the team that knows how to install, maintain, manage, and debug an Elasticsearch server
 
Responsibilities

• Ensure the Elasticsearch clusters continue to run under optimal conditions
• Evaluate existing Elastic clusters, configuration parameters, indexing, search and query performance tuning, security and administration
• Setup Elasticsearch clusters across 2 datacenters in active/passive or possibly active/active configuration
• Maintain appropriate infrastructure to maintain performance and data integrity
• Keep Elastic Search clusters upgraded (as permitted by the applications reliant on them)
• Spin up/ customize clusters for the customers (where automation capabilities can't do it)
• Optimize indexes for use cases (e. g. logging, enterprise search)
• Troubleshoot various issues with the clusters (from small errors like unassigned shards, to automation issues, to node/ cluster failures)
• Work closely with development, engineering and operation teams and jointly work on key deliverables ensuring production scalability and stability
• Ensure data replication between Oracle and Elasticsearch
• Setup and configure Logstash/Beats as necessary to feed Elasticsearch
• Ensure security of Elasticsearch cluster
• Follow best practices
• Ensure appropriate monitoring & alerting of Elasticsearch

 
Qualifications

• 1-3+ year experience with Elasticsearch Administration
• Knowledge of Elastic DSL
• Knowledge of Docker/Kubernetes
• Enterprise experience preferred (multi server environment)