Elastic Administrator / Operator : Sunnyvale, CA or New York City (Onsite)

Sunnyvale, CA, US • Posted 9 hours ago • Updated 9 hours ago
Contract Independent
Contract Corp To Corp
Contract W2
Occasional Travel Required
On-site
Depends on Experience
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Skills

  • Accountability
  • Apache Kafka
  • Backup
  • Bash
  • DevOps
  • Disaster Recovery
  • Documentation
  • Elasticsearch
  • Grafana
  • High Availability
  • Kibana
  • Kubernetes
  • Lifecycle Management
  • Performance Tuning
  • Production Support
  • Python
  • Recovery
  • SIEM
  • Scalability
  • Scripting

Summary

Elastic Administrator / Operator
Location: Sunnyvale, CA or New York City (Onsite)
Role Summary
We are looking for a seasoned Elastic professional to take ownership of our onpremise Elasticsearch ecosystem. This role is central to ensuring stability, scalability, and security in a missioncritical environment. You will be the goto expert for cluster operations, performance optimization, and monitoring, while driving automation and reliability across the platform.
What You ll Do
  • Oversee Elastic clusters deployed on Kubernetes (ECK), handling upgrades, scaling, and lifecycle management.
  • Lead Day2 operational activities: proactive monitoring, incident resolution, troubleshooting, and finetuning system performance.
  • Design and implement disaster recovery, backup/restore, and highavailability strategies.
  • Maintain clear operational documentation and runbooks for repeatable processes.
  • Participate in oncall rotation (1 week per month, 24x7 coverage).
MustHave Skills
  • Deep expertise with the Elastic stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Fleet Server, Elastic Agent, ingestion pipelines).
  • Proven background in production support and Day2 operations.
  • Handson with monitoring/alerting tools: Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, VictoriaMetrics.
  • Proficiency in automation via scripting (Python, Bash).
NicetoHave Skills
  • Exposure to SIEM/securitydriven environments.
  • Experience with Kafka in largescale log ingestion pipelines.
Ideal Candidate Profile
  • Titles to target: SRE, Production Engineer, DevOps Engineer.
  • Must demonstrate handson Kubernetes and Elasticsearch expertise.
  • Strong monitoring/alerting background with Grafana.
  • Thrives in fastpaced, collaborative, and accountable environments.
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  • Dice Id: 10339744
  • Position Id: 8958495
  • Posted 9 hours ago
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