You are a senior system engineer with over 5 years of hands-on experience designing, operating, and improving complex system environments. In this role, you take ownership of a large on-premise Elastic Stack platform, ensuring stability, performance, and continuous improvement.

Your role:

• You translate functional and technical requirements into robust system designs and assess design trade-offs to make well-founded technical decisions.
• You validate designs against requirements and support their deployment into production, ensuring everything works as intended.
• You actively manage and optimize Linux-based server environments, with a strong focus on Elasticsearch, Elastic APM, and the broader Elastic Stack.
• You use automation wherever possible and apply an automation-first mindset, leveraging Ansible to improve efficiency, consistency, and scalability.
• You monitor system performance, capacity, and reliability, and you proactively identify opportunities for optimization and technical evolution.
• When incidents occur, you take the lead in complex troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and long-term remediation.
• You contribute to continuous improvement by documenting systems and designs clearly and keeping technical documentation up to date. 
• You participate in an on-call rotation for the systems you are responsible for and are comfortable working in environments where availability and reliability are critical.