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Senior Observability Engineer (ESS Platform SME)
Han IT Staffing
Location not stated
Hybrid
Senior
4 weeks ago
- Elastic Stack
- Kubernetes
- Microservices
- Elasticsearch
- Logstash
- Kibana
- Elastic
- OpenShift
- CI/CD
- Python
- Groovy
4 weeks ago
Role Overview:
We are seeking ahighly experienced Senior Observability Engineer with deep expertise in ESS (Elastic Stack) to lead and accelerate the development of enterprise-grade observability capabilities across mission-critical applications.
This role requires a hands-on SME who candesign, build, and scale observability dashboards, APM, tracing, and monitoring solutions exclusively within ESS. The candidate will play a key role in transforming current monitoring into aproactive, intelligent, and scalable observability ecosystem.
This is ahigh-impact, fast-paced engagement (target< 6 months) requiring ownership, technical depth, and execution excellence.
Key Responsibilities:
ESS Observability Architecture & Implementation
- Design and implementend-to-end observability solutions using ESS (Elastic Stack).
- Build acentralized observability layer covering all MF applications.
- Ensureblock-level aggregation with drill-down to:
- Application-level metrics
- APM traces
- Logs and events
- Service dependencies
- Develop and scale alarge backlog of ESS dashboards, including but not limited to:
- Cluster Health (OCP/K8s)
- API & APM Dashboards
- Service Health & Dependency Monitoring
- Pod Status / Restart / Scaling Metrics
- HTTP Status Analytics (200/400/500 trends)
- Transaction Processing Metrics
- Infra Metrics (CPU, Memory, Disk, Network)
- Synthetic Monitoring & Availability
- Buildintuitive, drill-down dashboards from MF Block → Service → Application level.
- Expand ESS-based:
- Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
- Distributed tracing
- Real User Monitoring (RUM)
- Synthetic monitoring
- Enableend-to-end traceability across microservices.
- Design and implementsmart alerting rules:
- Move from reactive → proactive detection
- Reduce noise, improve signal quality
- DefineSLOs, SLIs, and error budgets
- Enhance anomaly detection and trend analysis
- Work closely with:
- EOT Observability Team
- Internal CDLs
- Application teams
- Act asESS Observability SME
- Provideguidance, standards, and best practices
- Strong hands-on experience withESS (Elastic Stack):
- Elasticsearch
- Logstash
- Kibana
- Beats / Elastic Agent
- Elastic APM
- Proven experience buildingenterprise-scale observability dashboards in ESS
- Deep understanding of:
- Microservices architecture
- Kubernetes / OpenShift (OCP)
- Experience with:
- APM, distributed tracing, logging, metrics correlation
- Ability to designmulti-layer observability (infra → platform → app)
Strongly Preferred:
- Experience with:
- Synthetic monitoring tools integrated with ESS
- Real User Monitoring (RUM)
- Service maps and dependency graphs
- Knowledge of:
- CI/CD observability integration
- Alerting frameworks within Elastic
- Scripting: Python / Shell / Groovy (nice to have)
Soft Skills:
- Strong ownership mindset
- Ability to work under aggressive timelines
- Excellent problem-solving skills
- Clear communication with technical and non-technical teams
Success Criteria (First 3–6 Months):
- Deliverenterprise-grade ESS observability dashboards
- Achievefull MF application visibility
- Implementend-to-end APM + tracing coverage
- Establishproactive alerting framework
Additional Notes:
- Candidatemust be an ESS expert — alternative tools experience alone will not be sufficient.
- This is ahigh-priority, business-critical role with immediate impact expectations.
Senior Observability Engineer (ESS Platform SME) · Han IT Staffing