Gazelle Global
AWS OpenSearch Consultant
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The Role
This role will have a significant impact on delivering innovative solutions for one of the leading retailers in the UK, driving digital transformation and enhancing customer experiences. You’ll work on projects that leverage cutting-edge technologies such as AWS OpenSearch, Kafka, Kotlin, Java Spring boot, Terraform, event-driven architectures, and cloud platforms, contributing to scalable, secure, and high-performing systems.
Your Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and manage scalable OpenSearch architectures to support enterprise search, logging, monitoring, and analytics workloads.
- Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform for automated provisioning, configuration, and environment consistency.
- Configure and optimise OpenSearch clusters, indexing strategies, dashboards, and query performance to ensure high availability and reliability.
- Integrate Kafka and other data ingestion pipelines to enable real-time log collection, processing, and search capabilities.
- Troubleshoot performance bottlenecks, conduct root cause analysis, and implement proactive monitoring and capacity planning.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver cloud-native solutions, ensuring security, compliance, and operational excellence across AWS environments.
- Drive automation, best practices, and technical governance while mentoring teams on OpenSearch, observability, and platform optimisation strategies.
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Key Responsibilities
- Design OpenSearch platform architecture and search solutions.
- Define data ingestion and indexing strategies using Kafka and ELK.
- Lead OpenSearch implementation, optimisation, and upgrades.
- Develop and manage infrastructure using Terraform.
- Establish monitoring, logging, and operational best practices.
- Drive performance tuning, troubleshooting, and incident resolution.
- Support production deployments and ensure platform reliability.
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Hands-on Skills Required – OpenSearch Senior Consultant
- Design and manage scalable OpenSearch cluster architectures.
- Implement log ingestion pipelines using Kafka, Logstash, and Beats.
- Build and automate infrastructure using Terraform and AWS services.
- Configure monitoring, alerting, and analytics dashboards.
- Optimize search, indexing, and cluster performance.
- Troubleshoot production issues and ensure platform reliability.
- Implement security, governance, and operational best practices.
Technologies
- Search Engine: AWS OpenSearch
- Languages: Kotlin, Java 21+, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript
- Frameworks: Spring Boot 3.x, Ktor, React (SSR), Apache Airflow
- Data Stores: DynamoDB, Redis, S3
- Messaging: Kafka (Confluent Cloud)
- AI/ML: Azure OpenAI (embeddings), Kumo platform (relevancy), custom Python ML models
- CI/CD: GitHub Actions, Terraform, Docker, Bosun
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