Run health checks and remediation on production estates, and redesign sharding, mapping and index strategies where the original design no longer holds
Lead major-version upgrades, snapshot and disaster recovery strategy, and multi-cluster architectures
Diagnose performance problems across the full stack — Elastic, the JVM, the operating system, storage and network — and across adjacent systems in the data path
Work directly with customer architects, platform owners and engineering leadership; run discovery, present designs, and own the technical outcome of an engagement end to end
Build reusable tooling, automation and IP that makes the next engagement faster, including AI-assisted tooling for diagnosis, configuration and reporting
Mentor other consultants and contribute to the GCC's technical practice
What You Bring
Elastic depth — non-negotiable
We are not looking for someone who will learn Elastic on the job.
8+ years hands-on with the Elastic Stack, substantially on cluster and platform work rather than dashboarding or pipeline authoring
Shard strategy you can derive, not recite — how you arrived at a shard count and size for a given workload, what you traded off, and what you got wrong the first time
Index and mapping design, and why those choices drive cluster performance
Lifecycle and retention across data tiers, including the cost and latency implications of each
Snapshot, restore and disaster recovery designed and executed, not just configured
Major-version upgrades in production — the sequencing, the breaking changes, the rollback position
More than one deployment model: self-managed plus at least one managed or orchestrated option
Cluster stability and performance troubleshooting — heap and garbage collection, circuit breakers, thread pool rejections, shard allocation, expensive queries
Elastic Certified Engineer, or the demonstrable knowledge to obtain it within your first quarter
Strong Linux and operating system fundamentals, with solid grounding in storage and networking
A working understanding of how infrastructure conditions translate into Elastic symptoms, and how infrastructure choices constrain what a deployment can do
Experience troubleshooting on shared infrastructure, where the cause of your problem is another workload's behaviour and resolving it means engaging the team that owns it
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Additional Information - We Take Care of Our People
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We strive to have parity of benefits across regions and while regulations differ from place to place, we believe taking care of our people is the right thing to do.
Competitive pay based on the work you do here and not your previous salary
Health coverage for you and your family in many locations
Ability to craft your calendar with flexible locations and schedules for many roles
Generous number of vacation days each year
Increase your impact - We match up to $2000 (or local currency equivalent) for financial donations and service
Up to 40 hours each year to use toward volunteer projects you love
Embracing parenthood with minimum of 16 weeks of parental leave
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