Senior Elastic Search Specialist

We are working with a leading global packaging company to find a Senior Elastic Specialist for an exciting opportunity.

As an Elastic Stack observability specialist, you will support our client's digital journey by contributing to the implementation of a standardized observability stack.

The role is focused on:

• Designing a stack that spans over air gapped environments.

• Analyzing current observability data and its usability in KQL

• Define improvements for data consistency and query performance

• Improving data structure and tagging

• Implement alerts, detection strategies and visualizations

• Explore storage type alternatives - hot vs cold storage

• Define retention policies by data type and usage

• Implement head/tail sampling strategies

• Provide documentation and knowledge transfer

We believe you have:

• Deep expertise in the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Elastic APM, OTEL)

• Experience with Elastic Fleet management

• Strong experience in observability engineering, focusing on logs, metrics, and traces correlation

• Advanced expertise in KQL (Kibana Query Language)

• Strong experience in designing detection logic and dashboards using KQL

• Experience in Logstash pipeline design, transformation, and routing

• Experience with alerting strategies and anomaly detection within Elastic

• Knowledge of data modeling, tagging strategies, and schema design using Elastic Common Schema (ECS)

• Experience in storage tier strategies

• Experience integrating Elastic with external systems e.g. Splunk

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills

• Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams

• Strong communication and documentation skills