Key Responsibilities

Platform Administration

- Administer and maintain large-scale Elasticsearch clusters.
- Monitor cluster health, performance, storage utilization, and node availability.
- Configure and manage Index Lifecycle Management (ILM), snapshots, backups, and retention policies.
- Perform Elasticsearch upgrades, patching, and capacity planning.
- Manage Kibana, Fleet Server, Logstash, and Elastic Agent infrastructure.

Data Integration & Onboarding
- Integrate recent data sources into Elastic from:

Windows & Linux systems

Cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP)

Security tools (SentinelOne, Proofpoint, Zscaler, Vectra, CrowdStrike, etc.)

Network and application logs

Databases and custom APIs

- Develop and maintain Logstash pipelines and ingest pipelines.
- Normalize data using ECS (Elastic Common Schema).

Search & Analytics Development
- Develop advanced Elasticsearch queries and aggregations.
- Create dashboards, reports, alerts, and visualizations in Kibana.
- Build security and operational monitoring use cases.
- Design and implement observability solutions using logs, metrics, and traces.
- Utilize ES|QL and Kibana Lens for analytics and reporting.

Performance Optimization





- Tune cluster performance for indexing and search workloads.
- Optimize shard allocation, index templates, and mappings.
- Troubleshoot ingestion bottlenecks and search latency issues.
- Analyze JVM, heap memory, and storage utilization.

Security & Access Management
- Implement RBAC and Kibana role management.
- Configure SSO/SAML integrations
- Manage user onboarding, access reviews, and governance.
- Support security analytics and SIEM use cases.

Automation & DevOps
- Automate deployment and management tasks using:

Python

Shell scripting

Ansible

Terraform

- Support Infrastructure-as-Code and CI/CD practices.
- Develop reusable operational and monitoring scripts.

Support & Troubleshooting
- Resolve platform incidents and service requests.
- Participate in root cause analysis (RCA) activities.
- Collaborate with vendors and support teams for escalations.
- Maintain operational runbooks and technical documentation.

Preferred Qualifications

- Elastic Certified Engineer (ECE)
- Elastic Certified Analyst
- Elastic Observability Certification interested candidates send resumes to [email protected]

📌 Elastic Search Engineer (Chennai)
🏢 Quess IT Solutions
📍 Chennai