Software Engineer

Job Title: Senior Elasticsearch / ELK Administrator
Location: Alpharetta, GA (Hybrid – 3 days onsite, 2 days remote)
Duration: 12 months Contract-to-Hire
Pay Rate: $76/hr W2

Job Description:
Seeking a Senior Elasticsearch/ELK Administrator with 7+ years of hands-on experience managing and scaling Elastic Stack environments. The role involves designing, building, optimizing, and supporting large-scale Elasticsearch clusters for logging and monitoring use cases, with strong expertise in cluster architecture, automation, upgrades, and performance tuning.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, build, scale, and optimize Elasticsearch clusters, including Hot–Warm–Cold architectures.

• Manage index lifecycle policies (ILM), snapshots, and searchable snapshots.

• Automate deployments and operations using Ansible and shell scripting.

• Plan and execute cluster upgrades, patching, and capacity planning with minimal downtime.

• Configure monitoring, dashboards, and alerts using Grafana.

• Integrate Elasticsearch with Logstash, Kafka, Beats, and related tools.

• Troubleshoot and resolve ELK stack performance and operational issues.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design Elastic solutions aligned to business needs.

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree required.

• 7–15 years of overall experience; 7+ years as Elasticsearch/ELK Administrator.

• Strong expertise in Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Beats, cluster design, scaling, and index tuning.

• Hands-on experience with cluster builds, upgrades, and production operations.

• Proficiency in Unix/Shell scripting, Git, monitoring tools (Grafana), and automation.

• Working knowledge of Ruby and/or Python is a plus.

Soft Skills:

• Strong communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills.

• Collaborative team player.

Interview Process:

• First-round technical interview focused on ELK/Elasticsearch design, administration, and upgrades, followed by a cultural/background fit interview.