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Elasticsearch Observability Engineer Jobs (NOW HIRING)

Sr Elastic Engineer

Hampton, VA ยท On-site

$160/hr

This role requires deep expertise in Elastic technologies, automation, observability, and cloud ... Design, deploy, and maintain Elastic Stack environments including Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash ...

Sr Elastic Engineer

Hampton, VA ยท Hybrid

$160/hr

This role requires deep expertise in Elastic technologies, automation, observability, and cloud ... Design, deploy, and maintain Elastic Stack environments including Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash ...

... s and Observability Engineer, on contract. The role covers infrastructure automation, CI/CD ... Splunk and/or ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) โ€ข Observability and alerting:

Remote_Observability Architect

Chicago, IL ยท On-site

$66.75 - $87.50/hr

Elasticsearch (Expert Level) * ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) * Observability ... Authorization DevOps * CI/CD * Terraform * Ansible * Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Programming

Design, deploy, and maintain Elastic Stack environments, including Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash ... Solid understanding of observability, logging, metrics, and distributed systems. * Experience ...

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Elasticsearch Observability Engineer information

How does an Elasticsearch Observability Engineer typically collaborate with development and operations teams?

As an Elasticsearch Observability Engineer, you frequently partner with both development and operations teams to design and implement monitoring solutions using the Elastic Stack. You'll help developers instrument applications for better traceability and support operations in troubleshooting and optimizing system performance. Regular communication is key, as you'll often lead workshops, create dashboards, and respond to incidents collaboratively. This cross-functional teamwork ensures observability solutions align with organizational goals and provide actionable insights.

What does an Elasticsearch Observability Engineer do?

An Elasticsearch Observability Engineer is responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining observability solutions using the Elasticsearch stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, and Beats). Their primary role is to ensure that systems are monitored effectively, logs and metrics are collected and analyzed, and issues are detected and diagnosed quickly. They collaborate with development and operations teams to build dashboards, set up alerts, and optimize performance for monitoring infrastructure and applications. These engineers play a key role in improving system reliability and supporting incident response.

What are the key skills and qualifications needed to thrive as an Elasticsearch Observability Engineer, and why are they important?

To thrive as an Elasticsearch Observability Engineer, you need expertise in Elasticsearch, log management, and data analysis, often supported by a degree in computer science or a related field. Familiarity with observability tools such as Kibana, Logstash, Beats, and experience with cloud platforms and scripting languages like Python or Bash are typically required. Strong problem-solving abilities, attention to detail, and effective communication skills help you stand out in this role. These competencies are vital for ensuring system reliability, quickly detecting issues, and delivering actionable insights for continuous improvement.

What is the difference between Elasticsearch Observability Engineer vs Elasticsearch Developer?

AspectElasticsearch Observability EngineerElasticsearch Developer
Primary FocusMonitoring, logging, and observability of Elasticsearch clusters and related systemsDeveloping, customizing, and optimizing Elasticsearch applications and integrations
Skills & CertificationsKnowledge of Elasticsearch, Prometheus, Grafana, scripting, and monitoring toolsProficiency in Elasticsearch APIs, Java, REST, and development frameworks
Work EnvironmentOperations teams, DevOps, SREs, cloud environmentsDevelopment teams, software engineers, backend developers

While both roles require expertise in Elasticsearch, the Elasticsearch Observability Engineer focuses on system monitoring and ensuring Elasticsearch health, whereas the Elasticsearch Developer concentrates on building and customizing Elasticsearch-based applications. Their skills and daily tasks differ, but both are essential in Elasticsearch-centric environments.

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Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Observability - Remote

Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Observability - Remote

UnitedHealth Group

La Crosse, WI โ€ข On-site, Remote

$91K - $163K/yr

Full-time

Retirement

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Job description

Opportunities with Logistics Health Incorporated (LHI), part of the Optum family of business. We're dedicated to simplifying the logistics of complex workforce health programs with cost-effective solutions and a seamless distribution process. With offices in La Crosse, Wis., a satellite office in Chicago and remote employees throughout the country, we have a variety of rewarding career opportunities for you. Elevate your career as you help us create a healthier tomorrow for everyone and discover the meaning behind Caring. Connecting. Growing together.ย 

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OptumServe Enterprise Monitoring team is looking for a Senior Observability Engineer. The team is responsible for enterprise infrastructure, application, and network monitoring for on-prem, hybrid, and various Clouds. The selected candidate will be joining a team of skilled engineers with a broad background in enterprise monitoring and Observability. ย As an Observability Engineer, this role is focused on maintaining the reliability, scalability and availability of our Log management solution as well as our Metrics and Observability platform which heavily uses automation (terraform, Ansible and scripts), this role requires maintaining performance KPI of our solutions and defining their SLOs.

To support this mission, OSIT has initiated a multi year modernization program aimed at updating and enhancing enterprise technology systems in accordance with modern design standards.

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Primary Responsibilities:ย 

  • Maintain and deploy monitoring and alerting
  • Design, configuration and maintenance of log aggregation solution at a large scale
  • Set up and manage ingestion pipelines and data transformations
  • Have the mindset of "automate any task"
  • Monitoring and Alerting: Build and maintain robust monitoring systems using tools like Elk, Dynatrace, Prometheus, OTEL and Grafana to detect potential issues early and trigger alerts for timely response
  • Maintain associated documentation as it applies to our audit and certification requirements
  • Participate in troubleshooting, capacity planning, and performance analysis activities
  • Research new monitoring requirements and in many cases write code for that
  • Medium to expert level in setting up AI rules for tools like DavisAI (Dynatrace) and/or Elastic GenAI
  • Solid expertise in setting up monitoring policies/rules/templates; and writing scripts to accomplish monitoring requirements

You'll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications:

  • 2 years of experience working directly with monitoring tools as either an Admin, SME or as an Architect, preferably with Dynatrace and/or ElasticSearch
  • 2 years of experience with Dynatrace (managed, cloud as well as offline, with full scope of best practices and setup as it relates to Active gate, cloud, on-prem and custom with workflows), or with Elastic on-prem and cloud with best practices around the platform
  • 1 years of experience with designing data pipelines using filebeat, Logstash and/or fluentbit/fluentd
  • 1 years of AI expertise as it relates to Observability to reduce the amount of work, and make our products more reliable and resilient
  • 1 years of experience writing scripts in languages like Python and (Bash or powershell) to automate tasks
  • 1 years of experience working with Linux OS
  • United States Citizenship

  • If you are offered this position, you will be required to provide extensive personal information to obtain and maintain a suitability or determination of eligibility for a Confidential/Secret or Top Secret security clearance as a condition of your employment

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Preferred Qualifications:

  • BS/MS in CS/engineering or equivalent OR 5 years of experience
  • 1 years of experience in Terraform and Ansible. Syntax, best practices, and managing complex configurations in multi commercial and Gov clouds to build and manage infra and applications
  • 1 years of scripting experience (JavaScript, Java, PowerShell, or others)
  • SNMP, TCP dump and tracing
  • Proven knowledge of AIOPS platform

Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to local labor markets, education, work experience, certifications, etc. In addition to your salary, we offer benefits such as, a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). No matter where or when you begin a career with us, you'll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives. The salary for this role will range from $91,700 to $163,700 annually based on full-time employment. We comply with all minimum wage laws as applicable.

At UnitedHealth Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone. We believe everyone-of every race, gender, sexuality, age, location and income-deserves the opportunity to live their healthiest life. Today, however, there are still far too many barriers to good health which are disproportionately experienced by people of color, historically marginalized groups and those with lower incomes. We are committed to mitigating our impact on the environment and enabling and delivering equitable care that addresses health disparities and improves health outcomes - an enterprise priority reflected in our mission.

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UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer under applicable law and qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by local, state, or federal laws, rules, or regulations.

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UnitedHealth Group is a drug - free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.