Elasticsearch Observability Engineer Jobs in Michigan

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Job Description

The Elastic Observability Engineer is an important member of our Cloud Operations team, building a world-class Application Performance Monitoring solution to support observability-driven development. You will handle alert response, triage, maintenance, expansion and development to ensure monitoring systems remain healthy and reliable.

Operational Support & Triage

• Respond to alerts, ingestion issues, and userreported incidents.
• Perform initial diagnosis, document findings, and resolve or escalate.
• Monitor and troubleshoot Elasticsearch clusters, pipelines, Elastic Agent, Logstash, and Fleet.
• Participate in the oncall rotation.

Maintenance & Routine Operations

• Perform service restarts, ingestion validation, and configuration updates.
• Apply Linux/Unix patches and perform basic OS maintenance.
• Conduct regular cluster health, capacity, and LVM/storage checks.
• Support dashboard upkeep and proactive monitoring.

Data Quality & Pipeline Support

• Verify log, metric, and trace data completeness and ECS alignment.
• Perform periodic data validation.
• Document known issues, parsing gaps, and operational patterns.

Dashboards, Visualization & Search

• Use and maintain Kibana dashboards for operational visibility.
• Create dashboards and visualizations to support platform monitoring.
• Use KQL or Lucene queries to validate data and investigate issues.

Collaboration

• Provide actionable escalation details to SRE, DevOps, and Security teams.
• Maintain runbooks, SOPs, and troubleshooting guides.
• Communicate effectively during incidents and followups.

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent years of relevant work experience
• Legal authorization to work in the US is required- we will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, not now or in the future, for this job opening

• Typically requires 5+ years of relevant experience in observability, monitoring, logging, or IT operations.
• Linux/Unix: Handson administration, patching, networking basics, LVM, and troubleshooting.
• Windows: Basic OS administration experience.
• Elastic Stack: Working knowledge of Elasticsearch, Kibana, Fleet, Elastic Agent, APM, Logstash, architecture basics, and core troubleshooting.
• Observability: Understanding of monitoring practices, observability concepts, dashboards, and visualization creation.
• Scripting & Automation: Bash scripting, familiarity with Ansible, and experience with Python or PowerShell.
• Soft Skills: problemsolving, ability to work in a fastpaced environment, and selfstarter mindset.
• Linux/Unix engineering experience; Windows engineering experience.
• OpenTelemetry (OTEL) or APM experience.
• Knowledge of Ansible, Terraform, Rabbit MQ, Docker, Kubernetes, AZDO and CI/CD.
• Guestlevel experience with VMware or Azure.
• Project management exposure.

• Health Insurance including Medical, Dental and Vision
• 401k
• Paid Time off
• Parental and Caregiver Leave
• Flexible Work Schedule where you will work with your manager to enjoy a work schedule that can be flexible with your personal life.
• To learn more about our benefits package, please visit at www.raquickfind.com.

This position is part of a job family. Experience will be the determining factor for position level and compensation.

For this role, the Base Salary Compensation is from $114,720.00 - 172,080.00 USD with an annual target bonus of 5% of base salary. Our company benefits for the US can be found here. Actual pay will be based on factors such as skills, knowledge, education, and experience.

At Rockwell Automation we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right person for this or other roles.

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