Senior Elastic Engineer: Scale Elastic Stack & Automation

Socket.dev; Colorado Springs (CO); On-site; USD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Socket.dev in Colorado Springs, CO is seeking a Sr. Elastic Engineer to design, deploy, and optimize Elastic Stack environments. You will build ingestion pipelines, dashboards, and automation to support scalable data observability across on-prem and cloud platforms.

Ideal candidates have hands-on Elastic Stack experience, scripting skills, and cloud knowledge (AWS/Azure/GCP). The role requires mentoring, strong communication, and willingness for on-site engagements in Colorado.

Qualifications

• Deep hands-on expertise with Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, Beats, Fleet).
• Strong scripting/automation skills (Python, PowerShell, Bash).
• Solid understanding of observability, logging, metrics, and distributed systems.
• Experience designing, deploying, and optimizing production-scale Elastic environments.
• Cloud knowledge across AWS, Azure, GCP.
• Ability to mentor and influence engineering teams on Elastic best practices.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and maintain Elastic Stack environments (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, Beats, Fleet).
• Build and optimize ingestion pipelines, index strategies, queries, dashboards, automation workflows.
• Write scripts and integrations to streamline operations and monitoring.
• Deploy Elastic across on-premises, cloud, GovCloud, and containerized environments (Kubernetes, Docker, OpenShift).
• Leverage Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD pipelines to manage deployments.
• Integrate Elastic with SIEMs, Splunk, CrowdStrike, and telemetry sources.
• Monitor health, troubleshoot performance, and optimize reliability and scalability.
• Lead design reviews and share Elastic best practices across teams.
• Maintain architecture/runbooks/docs of deployment patterns.
• Stay current with Elastic features and certifications.

Skills

Elastic Stack

Python

PowerShell

Bash

Observability

Distributed systems

AWS

Azure

GCP

Mentoring

Communication

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

CI/CD

Docker

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Job description

Socket.dev in Colorado Springs, CO is seeking a Sr. Elastic Engineer to design, deploy, and optimize Elastic Stack environments. You will build ingestion pipelines, dashboards, and automation to support scalable data observability across on-prem and cloud platforms.

Ideal candidates have hands-on Elastic Stack experience, scripting skills, and cloud knowledge (AWS/Azure/GCP). The role requires mentoring, strong communication, and willingness for on-site engagements in Colorado.