Who we are
DigiCert is a global leader in intelligent trust. We protect the digital world by ensuring the security, privacy, and authenticity of every interaction. Our AI-powered DigiCert ONE platform unifies PKI, DNS, and certificate lifecycle management, to secure infrastructure, software, devices, messages, AI content and agents. Learn why more than 100,000 organizations, including 90% of the Fortune 500, choose DigiCert to stop today’s threats and prepare for a quantum-safe future at www.digicert.com
Job summary
We are seeking an experienced OpenSearch Administrator with 3+ years of hands-on experience to join our team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for the design, implementation, maintenance, and optimization of our OpenSearch environments. You will collaborate with a global team of administrators to design, automate, build, operate, and continuously enhance the indexing services that support our customer-facing SaaS products.
What you will do
- Monitor cluster health, performance, and resource utilization.
- Implement security best practices including authentication, authorization, and encryption.
- Develop backup and recovery strategies for OpenSearch clusters.
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex OpenSearch issues.
- Perform cluster upgrades and patches with minimal downtime.
- Optimize query performance and data indexing strategies.
- Collaborate with development teams to implement efficient search solutions.
- Create and maintain documentation for OpenSearch configurations and procedures.
- Implement high-availability and disaster recovery solutions.
- Act as a backup for other team members when necessary.
- Provide on-call support and working off-hours as needed to ensure reliability and availability.
- Bi-weekly rotating shifts are necessary to ensure coverage during weekends.
What you will have
- 3+ years of hands-on experience administering OpenSearch clusters.
- Strong understanding of OpenSearch architecture and core concepts.
- Experience with OpenSearch Dashboards, Logstash‑compatible pipelines, and OpenSearch Data Prepper.
- Proficiency in Linux/Unix operating systems and shell scripting.
- Knowledge of JVM tuning and garbage collection optimization.
- Experience with monitoring tools for OpenSearch (e.g., OpenSearch Dashboards, Prometheus, Grafana).
- Familiarity with containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent verbal and written communication abilities.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment working on projects against strict deadlines.
- Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams, including developers, system reliability engineers and other business units.
- Ability to diagnose and troubleshoot user facing service incidents & outages.
Nice to have
- OpenSearch certification.
- Experience with cloud‑based OpenSearch deployments (AWS OpenSearch Service, GCP, Azure).
- Experience with monitoring tools and techniques (e.g., New Relic, Splunk, etc.).
- Background in performance tuning for large-scale search applications.
- Experience with automation or CI/CD tools, such as Terraform, Ansible, GitLab or SaltStack.
Benefits
- Generous time off policies.
- Top shelf benefits.
- Education, wellness and lifestyle support.
To protect candidate information and maintain a secure hiring process, all applications must be submitted through our careers portal. Resumes or CVs sent directly via email will not be reviewed or considered.
LI-SS1
Skills Required
- 3+ years hands-on experience administering OpenSearch clusters.
- Strong understanding of OpenSearch architecture and core concepts.
- Experience with OpenSearch Dashboards, Logstash-compatible pipelines, and OpenSearch Data Prepper.
- Proficiency in Linux/Unix operating systems and shell scripting.
- Knowledge of JVM tuning and garbage collection optimization.
- Experience with monitoring tools for OpenSearch (e.g., OpenSearch Dashboards, Prometheus, Grafana).
- Familiarity with containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills, including diagnosing user-facing incidents and outages.
- Ability to provide on-call support, work off-hours, and participate in bi-weekly rotating weekend shifts.
- Excellent verbal and written communication and ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams.
- OpenSearch certification.
- Experience with cloud-based OpenSearch deployments (AWS OpenSearch Service, GCP, Azure).
- Experience with monitoring tools and techniques (e.g., New Relic, Splunk).
- Background in performance tuning for large-scale search applications.
- Experience with automation or CI/CD tools such as Terraform, Ansible, GitLab, or SaltStack.
DigiCert Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about DigiCert and has not been reviewed or approved by DigiCert.
-
Leave & Time Off Breadth — Vacation/PTO and sick leave are characterized as strong, and some accounts mention a sabbatical program.
-
Retirement Support — The package includes a 401(k) with company matching, with recent confirmations of this benefit.
-
Flexible Benefits — Hybrid and work-from-home options are referenced consistently, indicating practical flexibility in how and where work is done.
DigiCert Insights
What We Do
DigiCert is the digital trust provider of choice for leading companies around the globe, enabling individuals, businesses, governments, and consortia to engage online with confidence, knowing their digital footprint is secure.
