Senior Elastic Observability Engineer - Plex

Rockwell Automation•Mayfield Heights, OH

7d•Remote

About The Position

The Elastic Observability Engineer is an important member of our Cloud Operations team, building a world-class Application Performance Monitoring solution to support observability-driven development. You will handle alert response, triage, maintenance, expansion and development to ensure monitoring systems remain healthy and reliable.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree or equivalent years of relevant work experience
Legal authorization to work in the US is required- we will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, not now or in the future, for this job opening

Nice To Haves

Typically requires 5+ years of relevant experience in observability, monitoring, logging, or IT operations.
Linux/Unix: Hands‑on administration, patching, networking basics, LVM, and troubleshooting.
Windows: Basic OS administration experience.
Elastic Stack: Working knowledge of Elasticsearch, Kibana, Fleet, Elastic Agent, APM, Logstash, architecture basics, and core troubleshooting.
Observability: Understanding of monitoring practices, observability concepts, dashboards, and visualization creation.
Scripting & Automation: Bash scripting, familiarity with Ansible, and experience with Python or PowerShell.
Soft Skills: problem‑solving, ability to work in a fast‑paced environment, and self‑starter mindset.
Linux/Unix engineering experience; Windows engineering experience.
OpenTelemetry (OTEL) or APM experience.
Knowledge of Ansible, Terraform, Rabbit MQ, Docker, Kubernetes, AZDO and CI/CD.
Guest‑level experience with VMware or Azure.
Project management exposure.

Responsibilities

Respond to alerts, ingestion issues, and user‑reported incidents.
Perform initial diagnosis, document findings, and resolve or escalate.
Monitor and troubleshoot Elasticsearch clusters, pipelines, Elastic Agent, Logstash, and Fleet.
Participate in the on‑call rotation.
Perform service restarts, ingestion validation, and configuration updates.
Apply Linux/Unix patches and perform basic OS maintenance.
Conduct regular cluster health, capacity, and LVM/storage checks.
Support dashboard upkeep and proactive monitoring.
Verify log, metric, and trace data completeness and ECS alignment.
Perform periodic data validation.
Document known issues, parsing gaps, and operational patterns.
Use and maintain Kibana dashboards for operational visibility.
Create dashboards and visualizations to support platform monitoring.
Use KQL or Lucene queries to validate data and investigate issues.
Provide actionable escalation details to SRE, DevOps, and Security teams.
Maintain runbooks, SOPs, and troubleshooting guides.
Communicate effectively during incidents and follow‑ups.