What are the responsibilities and job description for the Elastic Administrator / Operator (On-Prem) position at cloudXops Inc.?
Overview:
We are seeking an experienced Elastic SME to support the development, operation, and ongoing management of our on-premise Elasticsearch platform within a security-focused environment.
Key Responsibilities:
- Administer and operate Elastic clusters on Kubernetes using ECK and data streams (deployment, scaling, upgrades)
- Manage Day 2 operations: monitoring, incident response, troubleshooting, and performance tuning
- Implement backup/restore, high availability, and disaster recovery strategies
- Optimize indexing, ES|QL query performance, and cluster health
- Support security configurations (RBAC, access control, audit logging)
- Maintain operational runbooks and documentation
- Take part in the on-call rotation (1 week 24*7 on call per month)
Required Skills:
- Strong hands-on experience with Elastic stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Fleet Server, Elastic
- Agent and Search Ingest Pipeline)
- Proven experience in production support / Day 2 operations
- Experience managing on-premise Kubernetes infrastructure
- Solid understanding of Linux systems, networking, and storage
- Experience with monitoring and alerting tools such as Loki, Grafana, Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics
- Automation using scripting (Python, Bash, etc.)
Nice to Have:
- Experience in security environments or SIEM use cases
- Experience using Kafka at high scale as part of log ingestion pipeline
Salary : $180,000 - $200,000