Elastic Search / ELK Stack engineer - R01564999

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Role: Elastic Search /ELK Stack Engineer

Location: Mclean, VA (OR) Plano, TX.

Role Overview:

We are seeking a highly 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 can design, 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 a proactive, intelligent, and scalable observability ecosystem.

This is a high-impact, fast-paced engagement (target Key Responsibilities:

ESS Observability Architecture & Implementation:

• Design and implement end-to-end observability solutions using ESS (Elastic Stack).

• Build a centralized observability layer covering all MF applications.

• Ensure block-level aggregation with drill-down to:

• Application-level metrics

• APM traces

• Logs and events

• Service dependencies

Dashboard Engineering (Critical Priority):

• Develop and scale a large 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

• Build intuitive, drill-down dashboards from MF Block → Service → Application level.

Develop and scale a large 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

• Build intuitive, drill-down dashboards from MF Block → Service → Application level.

• APM, Tracing & Monitoring Expansion

• Expand ESS-based:

• Application Performance Monitoring (APM)

• Distributed tracing

• Real User Monitoring (RUM)

• Synthetic monitoring

• Enable end-to-end traceability across microservices.

• Proactive Observability & Alerting

• Design and implement smart alerting rules:

• Move from reactive → proactive detection

• Reduce noise, improve signal quality

• Define SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets

• Enhance anomaly detection and trend analysis

• Collaboration & Leadership

• Work closely with:

• EOT Observability Team

• Internal CDLs

• Application teams

• Act as ESS Observability SME

• Provide guidance, standards, and best practices

• Required Skills & Experience:

• Strong hands-on experience with ESS (Elastic Stack):

• Elasticsearch

• Logstash

• Kibana

• Beats / Elastic Agent

• Elastic APM

• Proven experience building enterprise-scale observability dashboards in ESS

• Deep understanding of:

• Microservices architecture

• Kubernetes / OpenShift (OCP)

• Experience with:

• APM, distributed tracing, logging, metrics correlation

• Ability to design multi-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)

Additional Notes:

• Candidate must be an ESS expert — alternative tools experience alone will not be sufficient.

• This is a high-priority, business-critical role with immediate impact expectations.

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