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Description

We are seeking a Senior/Staff Elasticsearch Engineer to architect and manage scalable, high-performance search infrastructure tailored to document and file management. This role is critical to powering search and discovery for business-critical documents.

Job Description:

Responsibilities

• Design, implement and manage scalable ElasticSearch clusters optimized for indexing and querying large volumes of documents

• Drive architectural reviews and provide technical guidance on complex search implementations.

• Administer the operations of multiple production ElasticSearch clusters across different environments.

• Drive observability and monitoring for ElasticSearch clusters.

• Implement robust ingest pipelines for structured and unstructured file types.

• Develop and fine-tune full-text search features for relevance, speed, and accuracy

• Integrate file parsing tools (e.g., Apache Tika, ingest-attachment plugin) into indexing workflows.

• Conduct regular security audits and vulnerability assessments.

• Provide technical support to internal and external staff.

• Participate in incident calls and problem resolution.

• Architect index structures, lifecycle management, and document storage patterns

• Ensure secure access to document content through fine-grained RBAC and SSO integration

• Build metadata extraction and enrichment services to augment searchability

• Automate ingestion pipelines using scripting (Python, Bash, PowerShell)

• Develop dashboards for search/reporting use cases in collaboration with product teams

• Collaborate with Engineering to optimize search integration and performance.

• Deploy and manage Kafka instances.

• Cluster tuning and scaling with focus on fast search and analytics at scale.

• Carry out capacity planning and migrations to optimize cluster performance.

Requirements

Required Skills:

• 5+ years' experience designing and managing production ready multi cluster ElasticSearch instances.

• 4+ years of experience administering Linux systems.

• Infrastructure as Code proficiency (Terraform)

• Experience using Monitoring and Observability solutions

• Proficiency with Cloud Platforms e.g (AWS, Azure) with experience in managed ElasticSearch services.

• Profiency with an automation scripting language (Python, Powershell, bash, Go)

• Strong knowledge of ingest-attachment plugin, pipelines, and file parsing tools

• Proficient in Search DSL, aggregations, and performance tuning

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