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Lead Platform Engineer

Openkyber

 

Evansville, IN, USA

Posted On: 1 day ago
Experience: 10+ years
Availability: Hybrid
Openings: 1
Category: Senior Platform Engineer
Tenure: No Preference/Any
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Description

You will own the administration, reliability, and performance of production Elastic Stack environments across cloud and on-premises infrastructure.

This role is hybrid.

Responsibilities

  • Design, deploy, and maintain highly available multi-node Elasticsearch clusters, ensuring optimal node roles, shard allocation, and index lifecycle management.
  • Build and support data-ingestion pipelines using Logstash, Beats, and Elastic Agent, while managing cluster upgrades, backups, and disaster recovery.
  • Develop automation and operational tooling using Python, Bash, and APIs to streamline Elastic Stack administration and platform operations.
  • Create and maintain Kibana dashboards, visualizations, and alerting rules to support centralized logging, metrics analytics, and observability.
  • Troubleshoot cluster health, query performance, JVM, and storage issues while implementing security controls including RBAC and encryption.

Required Skills

  • 10+ years of experience administering production ELK/Elastic Stack environments, including Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana.
  • Deep knowledge of Elasticsearch cluster architecture, mappings, templates, aliases, data streams, and index lifecycle management.
  • Proven ability to diagnose and resolve indexing, query performance, shard allocation, and data-ingestion issues in complex environments.
  • Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code and configuration management, specifically Terraform and Ansible.
  • Proficiency in CI/CD pipelines, Git-based source control, and automated deployment strategies.
  • Strong scripting skills in Python or Bash for creating automation and operational tooling.
  • Experience implementing Elastic security capabilities, including authentication, authorization, and audit logging.

Preferred Skills

  • Experience supporting Elastic platforms in hybrid cloud and on-premises infrastructure.
  • Understanding of platform reliability practices, including SLOs, runbooks, and incident response.
  • Ability to provide technical leadership and mentor other engineers in an Agile delivery environment.

Education

Any Graduate

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