Elasticsearch Engineer

November 7

🌵 Arizona – Remote

Although this job is listed in Arizona, this company may be open to hiring remote in other states.

💵 $135k - $160k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟢 Junior

🟡 Mid-level

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🚫👨‍🎓 No degree required

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Trapp Technology

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Cybersecurity • B2B • Enterprise

Trapp Technology is a managed IT services and cloud hosting provider that delivers 24/7 security, cloud application hosting, and IT support to small, mid-market and enterprise customers. The company offers hosted virtual desktops and ERP/accounting application hosting, managed IT and help desk services, and a suite of cybersecurity offerings including ArmorPoint managed SIEM, SOC management, vulnerability scanning, endpoint protection, incident response, and compliance advisory (PCI, HIPAA, NIST). Trapp focuses on business customers with professional services, consulting, and custom hosting solutions.

51 - 200 employees

Founded 2007

🔒 Cybersecurity

🤝 B2B

🏢 Enterprise

📋 Description

• Continuously improve and scale the Elasticsearch infrastructure that powers the cybersecurity platform. • Own the Elasticsearch clusters (provisioning, upgrades, backup/restore, and troubleshooting). • Design, evolve, and operate data-ingest pipelines. • Implement and test cluster backups/restores. • Regularly perform disaster recovery exercises. • Produce clear runbooks, diagrams, and training for junior staff; lead knowledge-shares. • Participate in and contribute to collaborative engineering/design reviews. • Plan and execute zero/minimal downtime Elasticsearch cluster upgrades with rollback and validation steps. • Create and maintain Elasticsearch ingest pipelines parsing (Grok, processors, ECS alignment, Painless). • Create and maintain index/component templates, ILM and SLM policies. • Build cluster, agent, and data ingest monitoring & alerting with Kibana and ElastAlert.

🎯 Requirements

• High School Diploma or GED equivalent, required • Elastic Certified Engineer (ECE) or equivalent knowledge, required • 2+ years hands-on Elasticsearch engineering in production, required • Ansible experience for automated configuration management, required • Extensive experience with Grok patterns and ingest pipeline parsing. • Experience with GitHub (PR workflow, code reviews, Actions/CI). • Some programming experience to be able to comprehend and troubleshoot existing PowerShell and Python scripts. • Nice to Have ETL/data-engineering experience outside Elastic (e.g., Kafka, Fluent Bit, Airflow). • Programming in Bash, Python, PowerShell, Ruby or Go for tooling, automation, and QA. • Security certifications (e.g., CISSP, CISM, CISA, Security+, CEH). • Exposure to Elastic security features, RBAC, TLS, PII handling. • Experience with Elastic’s tooling such as Rally. • Familiarity with ECS, ILM, SLM, Hot-Warm-Cold architectures, index and component templates, data stream and concrete index strategies. • Experience with Linux hardening, systemd, and performance tuning for Elastic nodes. • Observability practices (SLOs, error budgets), and metrics/logs/traces integration.

🏖️ Benefits

• 100% employer-funded insurance for employee-only medical, dental, and vision coverage • Generous employer-funded insurance for family medical, dental, and vision coverage • 401 (k) plan with company match • Employer-sponsored life insurance • Paid parental leave • 3 weeks of paid time off, accrued annually • 8 company-paid holidays and 2 floating holidays each year • Certification and training reimbursement program for approved learning expenses • 100% remote position (must be located within an approved state in the United States) • On-call Rotation: 1 week on/1 week off • Company equipment provided