2 months ago
Ireland (city not specified)Senior
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain security telemetry ingestion into Elasticsearch from cloud provider audit logs, identity and SaaS activity, endpoint data, and asset data.
- Integrate third-party and cloud provider APIs, including authentication, pagination, rate-limit handling, concurrency, error handling, and schema changes.
- Operate, monitor, upgrade, and manage capacity for Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes clusters, including shards, index lifecycle management, and cross-cluster search.
- Use Terraform to manage cloud infrastructure and Elasticsearch resources, including ingest pipelines, index templates, and alerts.
- Deploy scheduled ingest jobs with Kubernetes and Helm and develop automation such as self-healing jobs, health checks, internal CLIs, and AI-assisted operational workflows.
- Monitor data flow, backfills, schema and field consistency, reliability, and associated costs.
Requirements
- Production experience operating Elastic and Elasticsearch, including ingest pipelines, index templates, mappings, queries, cluster health, and upgrades.
- Strongly preferred experience with ECK or Elasticsearch on Kubernetes.
- Experience using AI to accelerate development, debug complex systems, and accelerate operations while retaining ownership of outcomes.
- Experience deploying and operating Kubernetes workloads, Helm charts, and operators and troubleshooting pods and jobs.
- Experience managing cloud and Elasticsearch resources with Terraform.
- Experience consuming APIs for data ingestion, including authentication, pagination, rate limiting, concurrency, and error handling.
- Ability to read, write, and modify Python ingestion and automation scripts.
- Eligibility to work in Department of Defense Impact Level 4 or above cloud service environments.
- Bonus experience with cloud providers, preferably GCP, and audit and logging data.
- Bonus knowledge of GitHub, pull-request workflows, GitHub Actions, SOC operations, incident response workflows, and dashboard or visualization tools.
Benefits
- Base salary with no variable compensation component.
- Health coverage for employees and families in many locations.
- Flexible locations and schedules for many roles at the distributed company.
- Generous vacation allowance.
- Matching donations up to $2,000 or local-currency equivalent.
- Up to 40 hours annually for volunteer projects.
- At least 16 weeks of parental leave.
Tech Stack
About Elastic
Elastic builds the Elasticsearch-based platform for enterprise search, observability (logging, metrics, APM), and security (SIEM/endpoint). It sells subscriptions and Elastic Cloud managed services with usage-based pricing, combining open source and proprietary features through Elasticsearch and Kibana. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco, Elastic is publicly traded on the NYSE and is used by more than half of the Fortune 500.