OpenSearch Administrator

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in India.

📋 Description

• Design, implement, maintain, and optimize OpenSearch environments.

• Collaborate with a global team of administrators to design, automate, build, operate, and continuously improve indexing services that support customer-facing SaaS products.

• Monitor the health, performance, and resource utilization of clusters.

• Implement security best practices, including authentication, authorization, and encryption.

• Develop backup and recovery strategies for OpenSearch clusters.

• Troubleshoot and resolve intricate OpenSearch issues.

• Execute cluster upgrades and patches with minimal downtime.

• Optimize query performance and data indexing strategies.

• Work with development teams to implement effective search solutions.

• Create and maintain documentation related to OpenSearch configurations and procedures.

• Implement solutions for high availability and disaster recovery.

• Serve as a backup for other team members when required.

• Provide on-call support and be available outside regular hours as needed to ensure reliability and availability.

• Participate in bi-weekly rotating shifts to guarantee weekend coverage.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 3 years of hands-on experience in administering OpenSearch clusters.

• Strong comprehension of OpenSearch architecture and core principles.

• Experience with OpenSearch Dashboards, Logstash-compatible pipelines, and OpenSearch Data Prepper.

• Proficient in Linux/Unix operating systems and shell scripting.

• Knowledgeable in JVM tuning and garbage collection optimization.

• Familiarity with monitoring tools for OpenSearch, such as OpenSearch Dashboards, Prometheus, and Grafana.

• Knowledge of containerization technologies, including Docker and Kubernetes.

• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving capabilities.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

• Ability to excel in a fast-paced environment while managing projects with strict deadlines.

• Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams, including developers, system reliability engineers, and other business units.

• Capability to diagnose and troubleshoot user-facing service incidents and outages.

• OpenSearch certification, experience with cloud-based OpenSearch deployments, additional monitoring tools, large-scale search performance tuning, and automation or CI/CD tools are considered advantageous.

🏝️ Benefits

• Generous time off policies.

• Top-tier benefits.

• Support for education, wellness, and lifestyle initiatives.