Senior Elastic Observability Engineer - Plex

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 is a global technology leader focused on helping the world's manufacturers be more productive, sustainable, and agile. With more than 28,000 employees who make the world better every day, we know we have something special. Behind our customers - amazing companies that help feed the world, provide life-saving medicine on a global scale, and focus on clean water and green mobility - our people are energized problem solvers that take pride in how the work we do changes the world for the better.

We welcome all makers, forward thinkers, and problem solvers who are looking for a place to do their best work. And if that's you we would love to have you join us!

Position Summary

The Elastic Observability Engineer is an important member of our Cloud Operations team, building a world-class Application Performance Monitoring solution to support observability-driven development. You will handle alert response, triage, maintenance, expansion and development to ensure monitoring systems remain healthy and reliable.

Responsibilities

Operational Support & Triage

• 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.

Maintenance & Routine Operations

• 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.

Data Quality & Pipeline Support

• Verify log, metric, and trace data completeness and ECS alignment.
• Perform periodic data validation.
• Document known issues, parsing gaps, and operational patterns.

Dashboards, Visualization & Search

• 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.

Collaboration

• Provide actionable escalation details to SRE, DevOps, and Security teams.
• Maintain runbooks, SOPs, and troubleshooting guides.
• Communicate effectively during incidents and followups.

Qualifications

The Essentials - You Will Have:

• 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

The Preferred - You Might Also Have:

• 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.
• Soft Skills: problem-solving, ability to work in a fast-paced environment, and self-starter mindset.
• Linux/Unix engineering experience; Windows engineering experience.
• OpenTelemetry (OTEL) or APM experience.
• Knowledge of Ansible, Terraform, Rabbit MQ, Docker, Kubernetes, AZDO and CI/CD.
• Guest-level experience with VMware or Azure.
• Project management exposure.

What We Offer

• Health Insurance including Medical, Dental and Vision
• 401k
• Paid Time off
• Parental and Caregiver Leave
• Flexible Work Schedule where you will work with your manager to enjoy a work schedule that can be flexible with your personal life.
• To learn more about our benefits package, please visit at www.raquickfind.com.

Location

Mayfield Heights, Ohio; Illinois; Wisconsin; Pennsylvania; Ohio; Minnesota; Michigan; Indiana; Troy, Michigan; Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States.

This position is part of a job family. Experience will be the determining factor for position level and compensation.

For this role, the Base Salary Compensation is from $114,720 - 172,080 USD with an annual target bonus of 5% of base salary. Actual pay will be based on factors such as skills, knowledge, education, and experience.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer including disability and veterans. If you are an individual with a disability and you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation during the application process, please contact our services team at [phone].