Elasticsearch Administrator
Bangalore
DigiCert
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Job summary
We are seeking an experienced Elasticsearch Administrator with 3+ years of hands-on experience to join our team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for the design, implementation, maintenance, and optimization of our Elasticsearch environments. You will collaborate with a global team of administrators to design, automate, build, operate, and continuously enhance the indexing services that support our customer-facing SaaS products.
What you will do
- Monitor cluster health, performance, and resource utilization
- Implement security best practices including authentication, authorization, and encryption
- Develop and execute backup and recovery strategies
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex Elasticsearch issues
- Perform cluster upgrades and patches with minimal downtime
- Optimize query performance and data indexing strategies
- Collaborate with development teams to implement efficient search solutions
- Create and maintain documentation for Elasticsearch configurations and procedures
- Implement high-availability and disaster recovery solutions
- Act as a backup for other team members when necessary.
- Provide on-call support and working off-hours as needed to ensure reliability and availability
- Bi-weekly rotating shifts are necessary to ensure coverage during weekends
What you will have
- 3+ years of hands-on experience administering Elasticsearch clusters
- Strong understanding of Elasticsearch architecture and core concepts
- Experience with Kibana, Logstash, and Beats (ELK/Elastic Stack)
- Proficiency in Linux/Unix operating systems and shell scripting
- Knowledge of JVM tuning and garbage collection optimization
- Experience with monitoring tools for Elasticsearch
- Familiarity with containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication abilities
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment working on projects against strict deadlines.
- Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams, including developers, system reliability engineers and other business units
- Ability to diagnose and troubleshoot user facing service incidents & outages
Nice to have
- Elasticsearch certification
- Experience with cloud-based Elasticsearch deployments (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- Experience with monitoring tools and techniques (e.g., New Relic, Splunk, etc.)
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code
- Background in performance tuning for large-scale search applications
- Experience with automation or CI/CD tools, such as Terraform, Ansible, GitLab or SaltStack
Benefits
- Generous time off policies
- Top shelf benefits
- Education, wellness and lifestyle support
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Tags: Ansible Architecture AWS Azure CI/CD Docker E-commerce Elasticsearch ELK GCP GitLab Kibana Kubernetes Linux Logstash Pipelines Security Shell scripting Splunk Terraform
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