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.

Lead the architecture, design, and continuous improvement of enterprise Elastic environments

Define and enforce best practices for scalability, resilience, lifecycle management, and operational excellence

Support and optimize platform strategy for high availability, retention, performance, and cost efficiency

Lead root cause analysis and resolution of complex platform, pipeline, and data issues

Design and govern ingestion pipelines, data models, and normalization standards aligned to ECS

Build and optimize advanced Logstash and ingest pipelines for high-volume and diverse data sources

Lead large-scale Elastic Agent and Fleet deployments with strong operational standards for endpoint and observability use cases

Drive integration of diverse security and observability telemetry sources with high data quality

Design and optimize AWS-backed Elastic infrastructure, including S3, compute, networking, IAM, and related cloud services

Design production grade CI/CD pipelines.

Leverage AWS services for snapshot strategy, retention, archival, and broader platform operations

Monitor and optimize cost drivers across compute, storage, ingestion, and retention

Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration using infrastructure-as-code

Design advanced Kibana dashboards, detection workflows, observability views, and executive reporting

Partner with detection engineering, infrastructure, and leadership teams to define requirements and roadmap priorities

Identify opportunities to improve detection coverage, platform reliability, and observability maturity

Mentor engineers, review technical designs, and contribute to platform roadmap planning

Elastic Certified Engineer

Elastic Certified Observability Engineer

5+ years of hands-on experience with enterprise Elastic environments

Strong experience with Elastic Security and Elastic Observability

Expert-level knowledge of Elasticsearch architecture, including indexing, sharding, replication, search, and query performance

Expertise in Elasticsearch template optimization and relevance fine-tuning.

Proven experience operating large, highly available Elasticsearch clusters in production

Deep expertise in capacity planning, cluster optimization, scaling, and platform hardening

Advanced proficiency in Elasticsearch Query DSL and search optimization

Strong programming and automation skills in Python, Java, Ruby, or similar languages

Proven cybersecurity background with experience in threat detection, attack techniques, telemetry, and defensive operations

Deep knowledge of Elastic security controls, including RBAC, encryption, detection rules, machine learning, and AI Assistant capabilities

Extensive experience with data parsing, enrichment, and transformation using GROK, DISSECT, Logstash, and Elasticsearch ingest pipelines

Experience with advanced detections, Watchers, dashboards, and observability views

Strong experience supporting Elastic deployments in AWS-backed environments

Working knowledge of AWS services, including S3, compute, networking, IAM, monitoring, and cost management

Strong Linux administration skills in distributed data platform environments

Demonstrated ability to lead technical initiatives and communicate effectively across engineering and business stakeholders

Preferred Qualifications

Experience leading platform modernization or migration initiatives

Experience designing multi-cluster or multi-region Elastic architectures

Experience building reusable engineering standards, patterns, and operational playbooks

Experience mentoring engineers in enterprise platform teams

Competitive compensation package

Competitive benefits package

Company events, recognitions, and celebrations

Career development and growth opportunities

At 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.