Job Type: Contract
Contract Length: 12 months
Pay Range: $80 - $90/hr
Start Date: ASAP
Location: Sunnyvale or NYC (3 days on site)
About the Opportunity:
Our client, a leader in Technology/Infrastructure, is looking for a skilled Elastic Administrator / Operator (On-Prem) to join their team for a 12-month engagement. This project involves supporting the development, operation, and ongoing management of their on-premise Elasticsearch platform within a security-focused environment. This is a high-impact role that requires a self-motivated professional who can hit the ground running and deliver results quickly.
Key Responsibilities & Deliverables:
This role is focused on the successful completion of specific tasks and deliverables. Your responsibilities will include:
- Administer and operate Elastic clusters on Kubernetes using ECK and data streams (deployment, scaling, upgrades)
- Manage Day 2 operations, including monitoring, incident response, troubleshooting, and performance tuning.
- Implement comprehensive backup/restore, high availability, and disaster recovery strategies.
- Optimize indexing, ES|QL query performance, and overall cluster health.
- Support security configurations such as RBAC, access control, and audit logging, and maintain operational runbooks and documentation.
We are looking for someone with a proven track record of successful contract engagements. The ideal candidate will have:
- 5+ years of experience in a similar SRE, Production Engineering, or Dev Ops role.
- Deep expertise in the full Elastic stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Fleet Server, Elastic Agent and Search Ingest Pipeline). This isn't a learning role—you need to be a subject matter expert.
- Demonstrated ability to work autonomously and manage on-premise Kubernetes infrastructure.
- Experience with production support/Day 2 operations, Linux systems, networking, and storage.
- Experience with monitoring and alerting tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, or VictoriaMetrics, and automation using scripting (Python, Bash, etc.)
