Elastic Engineer

Job Description

Insight Global is hiring an Elastic Search Engineer for one of our large consulting clients. This role will sit remotely in India.

Elastic Platform Engineering

-Design, implement, and maintain Elasticsearch SaaS clusters, indexes, pipelines, snapshots, and supporting infrastructure.

-Build and maintain custom and out-of-box connectors for ingestion.

-Manage multi-environment setups (dev, QA, stage, prod) including deployments, version upgrades, and release governance.

-Implement and operate CI/CD pipelines for Elasticsearch resources (index templates, ingestion pipelines, connectors, transforms, etc.).

Search Enablement & Optimization

-Perform relevancy tuning for lexical and semantic search (BM25, hybrid retrieval, embeddings, vector search).

-Conduct performance benchmarking, load testing, and adjust shard strategy, routing, and indexing throughput.

-Work closely with feature teams to design optimal retrieval workflows (RAG, vector similarity, query rewriting, synonyms, re-rankers).

Operational Ownership

-Monitor clusters (latency, heap usage, GC patterns, indexing/backpressure), manage alerts, and drive root-cause analysis.

-Respond to platform issues across time zones; communicate findings, timelines, and resolutions clearly to stakeholders.

-Ensure adherence to platform standards, IaC, release versioning, and audit/compliance requirements.

Cross-Team Collaboration

-Partner with Product Owners, architecture, backend, QA, and data teams across global time zones.

-Provide platform guidance, best practices, and onboarding support to application teams using search.

-Track progress, share updates, and proactively highlight risks and dependencies.

Additional Context

-Team operates across multiple global time zones; role requires overlap with US East Coast.

-Work involves both platform engineering and search-quality ownership.

-Strong communication, ownership mindset, and ability to work independently within a distributed environment is essential.

Compensation:

$20.00/hr to $22.00/hr.

Exact compensation may vary based on several factors, including skills, experience, and education.

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Skills and Requirements

-6+ years Elasticsearch development & support, preferably Elastic Cloud/SaaS.

--Custom & OOTB connectors

--Customized ingestion pipelines

--Index template creation & lifecycle management

--Relevancy tuning & search performance optimization

-Strong experience operating multi-environment releases and CI/CD workflows (GitHub Actions, GitLab, Bitbucket, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, etc.).

-Ability to coordinate across multiple squads, raise blockers, provide status updates, and work across US-India time zones. -3-4 years of Python development

--Data ingestion, ETL, automation scripts

--Search-related tooling (vectorization, embeddings, data prep)

--Backend services integrating Elasticsearch

-Experience with vector databases, semantic search, hybrid retrieval, embedding pipelines, or RAG workflows.

-Familiarity with DevOps tooling, observability stacks, and IaC (Terraform).

-Prior experience working in distributed global teams or GenAI-adjacent search platforms.