Elastic Search Engineer

About Position:

We are looking for candidates who have experience in Elasticsearch development and also has mandatory Elasticsearch certification. Also, candidates with experience in Docker and Kubernetes to work into the Engineering team.

• Role: Elastic Search Engineer
• Location: All Persistent Location
• Experience: 7 to 14 years
• Job Type: Full-Time Employment

What You'll Do:

• Minimum of 8 years as a Consulting Architect, Senior Technical Consultant, or equivalent senior IT functional role working into Elastic core domain.
• Elastic Certification: Required Active Elastic Certified Engineer certification is mandatory.
• Experience: Minimum of 8 years as a Consulting Architect, Senior Technical Consultant, or equivalent senior IT functional role.
• Consulting History: A strong history of working as a consultant delivering professional services engagements in complex enterprise environments.
• Domain Expertise: Solid experience in deploying solutions using Elastic core domain: Elastic Security (SIEM/Endpoint), Elastic Observability (Logs/Metrics/APM), and/or Enterprise Search.
• Experience in solving complex technical search problems in terms of relevancy, scaling, performance fine-tuning, building a platform to handle high query throughputs and indexing throughput, benchmarking clusters to achieve optimal performance.
• Experience in leading and delivering Enterprise Search projects at both the architectural and program level.
• Experience in GenAI, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) and vector embeddings.
• Deep understanding of distributed architecture including application, database and systems.
• Cloud & Infrastructure: Hands-on experience with on-prem systems and/or major public/private cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).

Expertise You'll Bring:

• Active Elastic Certified Engineer certification with strong hands-on Elasticsearch expertise.
• Strong experience in Elastic Security (SIEM/Endpoint), Elastic Observability, and Enterprise Search implementations.
• Proven expertise in search relevance tuning, cluster scaling, indexing optimization, query performance tuning, and benchmarking large-scale Elasticsearch environments.
• Experience architecting and delivering Enterprise Search and Search Analytics solutions.
• Hands-on experience with GenAI, Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), vector databases, embeddings, and semantic search platforms.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems, application architectures, databases, and infrastructure platforms.
• Experience deploying and managing Elastic solutions across AWS, Azure, GCP, and hybrid environments.
• Technical Depth: Hands-on experience in Linux, networking, security, containerization (Docker/Kubernetes), and infrastructure automation.
• Programming/Scripting: Experience utilizing programming or scripting languages in a corporate environment (e.g., Python, JavaScript, Go).
• Communication: Exceptional customer advocacy, relationship-building, and presentation skills. Proven ability to lead and articulate technical solutions and business value to stakeholders, including C-level executives.
• Travel: Ability and willingness to travel to client sites periodically as required for project success (up to 60%).
• Work Style: Comfortable working effectively in a highly distributed and remote team, spanning multiple global time zones.
• BS or Masters degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary and benefits package
• Culture focused on talent development with quarterly growth opportunities and company-sponsored higher education and certifications
• Opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies
• Employee engagement initiatives such as project parties, flexible work hours, and Long Service awards
• Annual health check-ups
• Insurance coverage: group term life, personal accident, and Mediclaim hospitalization for self, spouse, two children, and parents

Values-Driven, People-Centric & Inclusive Work Environment:

Persistent is dedicated to fostering diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We invite applications from all qualified individuals, including those with disabilities, and regardless of gender or gender preference. We welcome diverse candidates from all backgrounds.

• We support hybrid work and flexible hours to fit diverse lifestyles.
• Our office is accessibility-friendly, with ergonomic setups and assistive technologies to support employees with physical disabilities.
• If you are a person with disabilities and have specific requirements, please inform us during the application process or at any time during your employment

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