Senior Elastic Observability Engineer – Flexible Schedule

Rockwell Automation; Indianapolis (IN); On-site; USD 114,720 - 172,080; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance including Medical,**

401k

Paid Time off

Parental and Caregiver Leave

Flexible Work Schedule

Job summary

Rockwell Automation is seeking an Elastic Observability Engineer to join the Cloud Operations team, building a world-class monitoring solution with Elasticsearch, Kibana, and Elastic Stack tools to support observability-driven development. You will handle alerts, triage incidents, maintain dashboards, and collaborate with SRE, DevOps, and Security teams.

The role requires 5+ years of relevant experience and strong Linux/Unix administration skills.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent years of relevant work experience.
• Legal authorization to work in the US is required - we will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, not now or in the future, for this job opening

Responsibilities

• Respond to alerts, ingestion issues, and user-reported incidents.
• Perform initial diagnosis, document findings, and resolve or escalate.
• Monitor and troubleshoot Elasticsearch clusters, pipelines, Elastic Agent, Logstash, and Fleet.
• Participate in the on-call rotation.
• Perform service restarts, ingestion validation, and configuration updates.
• Apply Linux/Unix patches and perform basic OS maintenance.
• Conduct regular cluster health, capacity, and LVM/storage checks.
• Support dashboard upkeep and proactive monitoring.
• Verify log, metric, and trace data completeness and ECS alignment.
• Perform periodic data validation.
• Document known issues, parsing gaps, and operational patterns.
• Use and maintain Kibana dashboards for operational visibility.
• Create dashboards and visualizations to support platform monitoring.
• Use KQL or Lucene queries to validate data and investigate issues.
• Provide actionable escalation details to SRE, DevOps, and Security teams.
• Maintain runbooks, SOPs, and troubleshooting guides.
• Communicate effectively during incidents and followups.

Skills

Observability

Monitoring

Elastic Stack

Scripting

Problem-solving

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent years of relevant work experience

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Ansible

Terraform

RabbitMQ

VMware

Azure

CI/CD

PowerShell

Python

Job description

Rockwell Automation is seeking an Elastic Observability Engineer to join the Cloud Operations team, building a world-class monitoring solution with Elasticsearch, Kibana, and Elastic Stack tools to support observability-driven development. You will handle alerts, triage incidents, maintain dashboards, and collaborate with SRE, DevOps, and Security teams.

The role requires 5+ years of relevant experience and strong Linux/Unix administration skills.