Senior Elastic Platform Engineer

Vantor • Westminster, CO

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

Vantor is seeking a Senior Elastic Platform Engineer to own and evolve its multi-domain Elastic environment, which supports enterprise-scale data, observability, and analytics workloads. This role is not ticket-driven but focuses on scaling, optimizing, and operating Elastic as a shared platform across multiple business domains, ensuring a balance of performance, cost, data isolation, and reliability. The engineer will work at the intersection of DevOps, SRE, and data platform engineering to maintain Elastic as a high-performing, trusted system. The position is based in Westminster, CO, requiring onsite presence three days per week, with occasional work from the Longmont, CO office.

Requirements

• 6–10+ years in DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering.
• Deep, hands-on experience operating Elasticsearch at scale, including running clusters in production.
• Proven experience supporting multiple teams or business domains on shared infrastructure.
• Experience with shard sizing and rebalancing tradeoffs.
• Experience with index lifecycle management (hot/warm/cold tiers).
• Experience with cross-cluster replication/search.
• Experience with performance tuning (heap, GC, query optimization).
• Experience with data modeling and mapping strategy.
• Strong experience with Kubernetes and Helm.
• Strong experience with Terraform or similar IaC tools.
• Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines.
• Proficiency in scripting (Python, Bash, or similar).
• Experience building and operating systems in AWS (EC2, S3, EKS, IAM, etc.).
• Systems thinking approach.
• U.S. Citizenship required.
• Active U.S. Security Clearance at Secret level.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering/Science or equivalent experience.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with monitoring and observability ecosystems (Prometheus, Grafana, Zabbix).
• Background in SIEM or security analytics using Elastic.
• Experience with large-scale data platforms or lakehouse architectures.
• AWS or cloud certifications.

Responsibilities

• Evolve Vantor’s multi-tenant, multi-domain Elastic environments in partnership with engineering leads and architects.
• Make critical decisions on cluster sizing and topology, shard strategy and index design, and cross-cluster search and replication.
• Optimize Elastic environments for performance, resiliency, and cost at scale.
• Build and maintain ingestion pipelines using tools like Beats, Logstash, and Kafka.
• Define and enforce index lifecycle management (ILM) and data retention strategies.
• Establish and govern mapping and schema.
• Solve complex data-related problems such as noisy data, mapping explosions, and high-ingest workloads.
• Own the 'ilities' of the platform: availability, scalability, reliability, and maintainability.
• Troubleshoot complex cluster issues including shard imbalance, memory/heap pressure, and query latency.
• Proactively drive improvements rather than just reacting to incidents.
• Treat Elastic as an infrastructure-as-a-product.
• Automate deployment and operations using Terraform/Infrastructure-as-Code, Kubernetes (EKS or similar), and Helm.
• Build repeatable, scalable patterns for onboarding new teams and domains.
• Partner with DevOps, Data Engineering, and application teams.
• Help define standards, guardrails, and best practices for platform usage.
• Act as a technical leader in shaping observability and data platform strategy, while uplifting peers and colleagues.

Benefits

• Robust 401(k) with company match
• Mental health resources
• Student loan repayment assistance
• Adoption reimbursement
• Pet insurance
• Incentive eligible with a target based on contribution, company performance, and/or individual results achieved

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior