OpenSearch Administrator

Job summary

We are seeking an experienced OpenSearch Administrator with 3+ years of hands-on experience to join our team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for the design, implementation, maintenance, and optimization of our OpenSearch environments. You will collaborate with a global team of administrators to design, automate, build, operate, and continuously enhance the indexing services that support our customer-facing SaaS products.

What you will do

• Monitor cluster health, performance, and resource utilization.
• Implement security best practices including authentication, authorization, and encryption.
• Develop backup and recovery strategies for OpenSearch clusters.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex OpenSearch issues.
• Perform cluster upgrades and patches with minimal downtime.
• Optimize query performance and data indexing strategies.
• Collaborate with development teams to implement efficient search solutions.
• Create and maintain documentation for OpenSearch configurations and procedures.
• Implement high-availability and disaster recovery solutions.
• Act as a backup for other team members when necessary.
• Provide on-call support and working off-hours as needed to ensure reliability and availability.
• Bi-weekly rotating shifts are necessary to ensure coverage during weekends.

What you will have

• 3+ years of hands-on experience administering OpenSearch clusters.
• Strong understanding of OpenSearch architecture and core concepts.
• Experience with OpenSearch Dashboards, Logstash‑compatible pipelines, and OpenSearch Data Prepper.
• Proficiency in Linux/Unix operating systems and shell scripting.
• Knowledge of JVM tuning and garbage collection optimization.
• Experience with monitoring tools for OpenSearch (e.g., OpenSearch Dashboards, Prometheus, Grafana).
• Familiarity with containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication abilities.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment working on projects against strict deadlines.
• Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams, including developers, system reliability engineers and other business units.
• Ability to diagnose and troubleshoot user facing service incidents & outages.

Nice to have

• OpenSearch certification.
• Experience with cloud‑based OpenSearch deployments (AWS OpenSearch Service, GCP, Azure).
• Experience with monitoring tools and techniques (e.g., New Relic, Splunk, etc.).
• Background in performance tuning for large-scale search applications.
• Experience with automation or CI/CD tools, such as Terraform, Ansible, GitLab or SaltStack.

Benefits

• Generous time off policies.
• Top shelf benefits.
• Education, wellness and lifestyle support.

To protect candidate information and maintain a secure hiring process, all applications must be submitted through our careers portal. Resumes or CVs sent directly via email will not be reviewed or considered.

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