Role Overview The Senior Elastic Engineer leads the design, optimization, and strategic evolution of Elastic environments that support advanced security and observability use cases. This role combines deep hands-on engineering with architectural leadership, with responsibility for scalability, resilience, platform standards, and complex solution design across enterprise environments.
Key Responsibilities Lead the architecture, design, and continuous improvement of enterprise Elastic environments
Define and enforce best practices for scalability, resilience, lifecycle management, and operational excellence
Support andoptimizeplatform strategy for high availability, retention, performance, and cost efficiency
Lead root cause analysis and resolution of complexplatform,pipeline, and data issues
Design and govern ingestion pipelines, data models, and normalization standards aligned to ECS
Build andoptimizeadvanced Logstash and ingest pipelines for high-volume and diverse data sources
Lead large-scale Elastic Agent and Fleet deployments with strong operational standards for endpoint and observability use cases
Drive integration of diverse security and observability telemetry sources with high data quality
Design andoptimizeAWS-backed Elastic infrastructure, including S3, compute, networking, IAM, and related cloud services
Design production gradeCI/CD pipelines.
Leverage AWS services for snapshot strategy, retention, archival, and broader platform operations
Monitor andoptimizecost drivers across compute, storage, ingestion, and retention
Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration using infrastructure-as-code




Design advanced Kibana dashboards, detection workflows, observability views, and executive reporting
Partner with detection engineering, infrastructure, and leadership teams to define requirements and roadmap priorities
Identifyopportunities to improve detection coverage, platform reliability, and observability maturity
Mentor engineers, review technical designs, and contribute to platform roadmap planning
Elastic Certified Engineer
Elastic Certified Observability Engineer
5+ years of hands-on experience with enterprise Elastic environments
Strong experience with Elastic Security and Elastic Observability
Expert-level knowledge of Elasticsearch architecture, including indexing, sharding, replication, search, and query performance
ExpertiseinElasticsearch template optimization and relevancefine-tuning.
Proven experienceoperatinglarge,highly availableElasticsearch clusters in production
Deepexpertisein capacity planning, cluster optimization, scaling, and platform hardening
Advancedproficiencyin Elasticsearch Query DSL and search optimization
Strong programming and automation skills in Python, Java, Ruby, or similar languages
Proven cybersecurity background with experience in threat detection, attack techniques, telemetry, and defensive operations




Deep knowledge of Elastic security controls, including RBAC, encryption, detection rules, machine learning, and AI Assistant capabilities
Extensive experience with data parsing, enrichment, and transformation using GROK, DISSECT, Logstash, and Elasticsearch ingest pipelines
Experience with advanced detections, Watchers, dashboards, and observability views
Solid experience supporting Elastic deployments in AWS-backed environments
Working knowledge of AWS services,including S3, compute, networking, IAM, monitoring, and cost management
Strong Linux administration skills in distributed data platform environments
Demonstrated ability to lead technical initiatives and communicate effectively across engineering and business stakeholders
Preferred Qualifications Experience leading platform modernization or migration initiatives
Experience designing multi-cluster or multi-region Elasticarchitectures
Experience building reusable engineering standards, patterns, and operational playbooks
Experience mentoring engineers in enterprise platform teams
What We Offer Competitive compensation package
Competitive benefits package
Company events, recognitions, and celebrations
Career development and growth opportunities
At Jolera, we are committed to creating a diverse, equal and inclusive. Our goal is to attract and retain the best talent while embracing diversity in all its forms. We value and respect differences in ethnic background, gender, age, religion, identity, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

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📌 Senior Elastic Engineer (Ontario)
🏢 Jolera
📍 Ontario