Staff Engineer II - Elastic Search Engineer

Summary

Staff Engineer II leads the enterprise observability platform as technical SME for Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, and supporting infrastructure. Responsibilities include designing and optimizing Elasticsearch index templates, data lifecycle management policies, and shard allocation strategies; engineering Logstash data ingestion pipelines with log parsing and transformation; managing Azure monitoring services including Log Analytics Workspaces and Event Hubs; and developing Ansible automation for deployment and configuration management across Linux/Unix environments. The role requires 7+ years in IT App Support, IT Development, IT Networking, or similar; a bachelor's degree; proficiency in Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, KQL, Bash, and PowerShell/Azure CLI; and proven leadership experience managing cross-functional teams and multiple projects simultaneously.