Experience: 8-10 Years
Location: Hyderabad, India (On-site)
Job Summary:
We are looking for an experienced Elasticsearch Specialist with 10+ years of IT experience
and strong expertise in designing, implementing, and managing large-scale Elasticsearch
clusters. The ideal candidate will have deep knowledge of ELK Stack (Elasticsearch,
Logstash, Kibana), performance tuning, data ingestion pipelines, and large-scale
search/analytics platforms.
The candidate will work closely with DevOps, Security, and Engineering teams to build
highly scalable, secure, and reliable observability and search platforms.
Key Responsibilities:
● Design, implement, and manage large-scale Elasticsearch clusters in production environments.
● Develop and optimize data ingestion pipelines using Logstash, Beats, and other data collectors.
● Perform cluster performance tuning, index optimization, and query optimization.
● Implement high availability, scalability, and disaster recovery strategies for Elasticsearch.
● Monitor cluster health and troubleshoot issues related to performance, indexing, and search latency.
● Work on data parsing, transformations, and enrichment using Grok, ingest pipelines, and scripting.
● Automate Elasticsearch deployments using Ansible, Terraform, or other automation tools.
● Integrate Elasticsearch with cloud platforms (AWS / Azure / GCP).
● Implement security features such as RBAC, encryption, and authentication.
● Collaborate with development teams to design efficient search and analytics solutions.
● Maintain Kibana dashboards and visualizations for monitoring and analytics.
● Provide technical leadership and mentor junior engineers.
Required Skills & Experience
● 10+ years of overall IT experience.
● 5+ years of hands-on experience with Elasticsearch.
● Strong expertise in ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana).
● Experience in index design, shard management, and cluster scaling.
● Strong knowledge of data parsing using Grok, Regex, and Logstash pipelines.
● Experience with automation tools like Ansible, Terraform, or scripting.
● Experience with Linux system administration.
● Strong understanding of REST APIs and JSON data structures.
● Experience in performance tuning and troubleshooting Elasticsearch clusters.
● Experience working with large data volumes (TB scale).
Preferred Skills
● Experience with Elastic Stack Security features.
● Experience with Observability platforms and log analytics solutions.
● Experience with On-premises AWS / Azure / GCP deployments.
● Knowledge of Kafka, Fluentd, or other data streaming tools.
● Certification in Elastic technologies is a plus.
Soft Skills
● Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
● Ability to work in fast-paced production environments.
● Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
● Ability to lead technical discussions and architecture decisions.
Nice to Have
● Experience in Security analytics or SIEM platforms.
● Experience building large-scale observability platforms.
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