Senior Elastic Platform Engineer

We're looking for a Senior Elastic Platform Engineer to own and evolve our multi-domain Elastic environment supporting enterprise-scale data, observability, and analytics workloads.

This is not a ticket-driven support role: you'll be responsible for scaling, optimizing, and operating Elastic as a shared platform across multiple business domains, balancing performance, cost, data isolation, and reliability. You'll work at the intersection of DevOps, SRE, and data platform engineering to ensure Elastic remains a high-performing, trusted system under real-world pressure.

This role is onsite three days per week and based out of our Westminster , CO office. This role will occasionally be required to work from our Longmont, CO offic e.

What You'll Own

Platform Architecture & Scale

• Partner with engineering leads and architects to evolve Vantor's multi-tenant, multi-domain Elastic environments

• Make critical decisions on:

• cluster sizing and topology

• shard strategy and index design

• cross-cluster search and replication

• Optimize for performance, resiliency, and cost at scale

Data & Ingest Strategy

• Build and maintain ingestion pipelines (Beats, Logstash, Kafka, etc.)

• Define and enforce:

• index lifecycle management (ILM)

• data retention strategies, * Act as a technical leader in shaping observability and data platform strategy while uplifting peers and colleagues along the way

Core Experience

• 6-10+ years in DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering

• Deep, hands-on experience operating Elasticsearch at scale , not just using Kibana but running clusters in production

• Proven experience supporting multiple teams or business domains on shared infrastructure

Elastic Expertise

You've dealt with:

• shard sizing and rebalancing tradeoffs

• index lifecycle management (hot/warm/cold tiers)

• cross-cluster replication/search

• performance tuning (heap, GC, query optimization)

• data modeling and mapping strategy

DevOps / Platform Engineering Depth

• Strong experience with:

• Kubernetes and Helm

• Terraform or similar IaC tools

• CI/CD pipelines

• Proficiency in scripting (Python, Bash, or similar)

• Experience building and operating systems in AWS (EC2, S3, EKS, IAM, etc.)

Systems Thinking

• You think in systems, not tools

• You've designed solutions that balance:

• performance vs cost

• flexibility vs governance

• isolation vs shared infrastructure

Requirements

• U.S. Citizenship required

• Active U.S. Security Clearance a t Secret level

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering/Science or equivalent experience

Bonus Points

• Experience with monitoring and observability ecosystems (Prometheus, Grafana, Zabbix)

• Background in SIEM or security analytics using Elastic

• Experience with large-scale data platforms or lakehouse architectures

• AWS or cloud certifications

Why This Role Is Different

• You'll own a real platform, not just maintain a cluster

• You'll solve multi-domain, enterprise-scale problems

• You'll have the autonomy to influence architecture, standards, and strategy

• You'll work alongside engineers who care about building systems the right way

Pay Transparency: In support of pay transparency at Vantor, we disclose salary ranges on all U.S. job postings. The successful candidate's starting pay will fall within the salary range provided below and is determined based on job-related factors, including, but not limited to, the experience, qualifications, knowledge, skills, geographic work location, and market conditions. Candidates with the minimum necessary experience, qualifications, knowledge, and skillsets for the position should not expect to receive the upper end of the pay range.

• The base pay for this position within Colorado is: $102,000.00 - $170,000.00 annually.

For all other states, we use geographic cost of labor as an input to develop market-driven ranges for our roles, and as such, each location where we hire may have a different range.

Benefits: Vantor offers a competitive total rewards package that goes beyond the standard, including a robust 401(k) with company match, mental health resources, and unique perks like student loan repayment assistance, adoption reimbursement and pet insurance to support all aspects of your life. You can find more information on our benefits at: https://www.Vantor.com/careers Additionally, this position is incentive eligible with a target based on contribution, company performance, and/or individual results achieved; the specific incentive plan and target amount will be determined based on the role and breadth of contributions.

The application window is three days from the date the job is posted and will remain posted until a qualified candidate has been identified for hire. If the job is reposted regardless of reason, it will remain posted three days from the date the job is reposted and will remain reposted until a qualified candidate has been identified for hire.

Vantor is forging the new frontier of spatial intelligence, helping decision makers and operators navigate what's happening now and shape what's coming next. Vantor is a place for problem solvers, changemakers, and go-getters-where people are working together to help our customers see the world differently, and in doing so, be seen differently. Come be part of a mission, not just a job, where you can: Shape your own future, build the next big thing, and change the world. To be eligible for this position, you must be a U.S. Citizen. This position requires an active U.S. Government security clearance, applicants who do not currently hold the required clearance will not be eligible for consideration. Employment for cleared roles is contingent upon verification of clearance status. Export Control/ITAR: Certain roles may be subject to U.S. export control laws, requiring U.S. person status as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3).