Senior Elastic Observability Engineer - Plex
$114,720–$172,080 year
On-siteTroy, Michigan, United States or Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
Job Summary
Respond to alerts, ingestion issues, and user-reported incidents by performing initial diagnosis, documenting findings, and resolving or escalating problems. Monitor and troubleshoot Elasticsearch clusters, pipelines, Elastic Agent, Logstash, and Fleet while participating in the on-call rotation. Perform service restarts, ingestion validation, configuration updates, and Linux/Unix patching to maintain system health. Verify log, metric, and trace data completeness with ECS alignment, using KQL or Lucene queries to validate data and investigate issues. Maintain Kibana dashboards for operational visibility and create visualizations to support platform monitoring. Provide actionable escalation details to SRE, DevOps, and Security teams while maintaining runbooks and troubleshooting guides.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent years of relevant work experience
- Legal authorization to work in the US is required
- Typically requires 5+ years of relevant experience in observability, monitoring, logging, or IT operations
- Linux/Unix: Hands‐on administration, patching, networking basics, LVM, and troubleshooting
- Windows: Basic OS administration experience
- Elastic Stack: Working knowledge of Elasticsearch, Kibana, Fleet, Elastic Agent, APM, Logstash, architecture basics, and core troubleshooting
- Observability: Understanding of monitoring practices, observability concepts, dashboards, and visualization creation
- Scripting & Automation: Bash scripting, familiarity with Ansible, and experience with Python or PowerShell
- Linux/Unix engineering experience
- Windows engineering experience
- OpenTelemetry (OTEL) or APM experience
- Knowledge of Ansible, Terraform, Rabbit MQ, Docker, Kubernetes, AZDO and CI/CD
- Guest‐level experience with VMware or Azure
- Project management exposure
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