Rockwell Automation

Elastic Observability Engineer

Rockwell Automation

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Troy • Missouri • Ohio • United States

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Tech Stack

AnsibleAzureDockerElasticSearchKubernetesLinuxLogstashPythonTerraformUnixVMware

About the role

  • Handle alert response, triage, maintenance, expansion and development to ensure monitoring systems remain healthy and reliable.
  • Respond to alerts, ingestion issues, and user‑reported incidents.
  • Perform initial diagnosis, document findings, and resolve or escalate as needed.
  • 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.
  • 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.

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
  • Typically requires 2+ 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.
Benefits
  • Health Insurance including Medical, Dental and Vision
  • 401k
  • Paid Time off
  • Parental and Caregiver Leave
  • Flexible Work Schedule where you will work with your manager to enjoy a work schedule that can be flexible with your personal life.
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Hard Skills & Tools
ElasticsearchKibanaLogstashElastic AgentBash scriptingPythonPowerShellAnsibleTerraformOpenTelemetry
Soft Skills
problem-solvingself-starterability to work in a fast-paced environment