Senior Elasticsearch Observability Architect

Emdad By Elm; Jeddah; On-site; SAR 360,000 - 480,000; Full time

Job summary

Emdad By Elm seeks a Senior Elasticsearch Observability Engineer to lead production Elasticsearch clusters, security hardening, and observability integration. You will implement SLOs, manage ILM, and automate with Python/Bash.

The role focuses on managing elastic ML features, distribution across environments, and ensuring scalable, secure observability stacks in a large enterprise context.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on experience managing Elasticsearch clusters in production.
• Strong experience with Elasticsearch and Kibana Observability.
• Experience with cluster scaling, ILM, and shard allocation.
• Deep knowledge of Elasticsearch security, RBAC, and TLS.
• Experience with Kubernetes and Linux/Unix administration.
• Proficiency in Python or Bash scripting for automation.
• Familiarity with observability stacks and alerting practices.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and manage Elasticsearch clusters across environments.
• Plan scaling strategies including ILM, shard sizing, and node sizing.
• Act as escalation point for Elasticsearch issues across teams.
• Apply security hardening, RBAC, TLS configurations for ES.
• Establish SLOs in Kibana Observability and integrate alerts.
• Implement Elastic ML features like anomaly detection and analytics.
• Develop automation tooling using Python/Bash and container workflows.

Skills

Elasticsearch administration

Kibana Observability

Kubernetes

Linux/Unix administration

Python/Bash scripting

RBAC and TLS security

Tools

Elasticsearch

Kibana

Kubernetes

OCI

Data Frame Analytics API

Job description

Emdad By Elm seeks a Senior Elasticsearch Observability Engineer to lead production Elasticsearch clusters, security hardening, and observability integration. You will implement SLOs, manage ILM, and automate with Python/Bash.

The role focuses on managing elastic ML features, distribution across environments, and ensuring scalable, secure observability stacks in a large enterprise context.