Elastic Search Developer Engineer

Job Title: Elastic Search Developer / Engineer

Location: NYC NY F2F is required

Duration: 6 months

Job Summary:

We are seeking an experienced Elastic Search Developer/Engineer to design build and optimize search and log analytics solutions within a fast paced Capital Markets environment. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in Elastic Stack components and hands on experience managing large scale high availability search clusters.

Key Responsibilities

• Design deploy and manage Elastic Search clusters for high performance search and analytics.
• Implement indexing strategies configure shards/replicas and optimize cluster performance.
• Perform search performance tuning relevance tuning and query optimization.
• Develop and manage log analytics pipelines using Logstash Beats and Kibana.
• Build visualization dashboards in Kibana to support monitoring reporting and insights.
• Troubleshoot cluster issues performance bottlenecks and indexing/search exceptions.
• Work closely with Capital Markets teams to translate business requirements into scalable search solutions.
• Ensure Elastic Stack configurations align with security compliance and operational standards.

Required Skills & Experience

• Strong hands on expertise in Elastic Search cluster design deployment scaling and maintenance.
• Deep understanding of indexing mappings analyzers search queries aggregation frameworks and tuning.
• Experience with Kibana Logstash Beats and the Elastic Stack ecosystem.
• Strong knowledge of log analytics and data ingestion pipelines.
• Proven experience in Capital Markets (mandatory) with understanding of trade data market data and regulatory workflows.
• Ability to troubleshoot distributed systems cluster performance issues and ingestion failures.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills.

Ideal Candidate Profile

• Elastic Stack expert with experience supporting mission critical low latency systems.
• Comfortable working in high pressure financial market environments.
• Able to communicate effectively with technical teams and business stakeholders.