Senior Elastic Observability Engineer | Flexible Schedule

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

401k

Paid Time Off

Parental Leave

Caregiver Leave

Flexible Schedule

Job summary

Rockwell Automation in Milwaukee, WI, is seeking an Elastic Observability Engineer to join our Cloud Operations team. You will build and maintain a world-class Application Performance Monitoring solution to support observability-driven development, handling alert response, triage incidents, and ensuring monitoring systems remain healthy and reliable.

The role requires 5+ years in observability or IT operations, hands-on Elastic Stack experience, Linux/Windows expertise, and scripting 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.
• 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.

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

Elasticsearch

Kibana

Linux/Unix

Windows

Elastic Stack

Scripting

Docker

Kubernetes

Cloud fundamentals

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Ansible

Terraform

RabbitMQ

VMware

Azure

CI/CD

PowerShell

Python

Azure DevOps

Elastic Agent

Job description

Rockwell Automation in Milwaukee, WI, is seeking an Elastic Observability Engineer to join our Cloud Operations team. You will build and maintain a world-class Application Performance Monitoring solution to support observability-driven development, handling alert response, triage incidents, and ensuring monitoring systems remain healthy and reliable.

The role requires 5+ years in observability or IT operations, hands-on Elastic Stack experience, Linux/Windows expertise, and scripting skills.