Job Title: OpenSearch Senior Manager L2
City: Redmond
State/Province: Washington
Posting Start Date: 10/5/26
Job Description:
Job DescriptionOpenSearch Senior ManagerJob SummaryWe are seeking an experienced Open Search Senior Manager to lead the engineering, operations, modernization, and migration of enterprise-scale OpenSearch and Elasticsearch platforms. This role will be responsible for building secure, highly available, scalable, and automated search infrastructure while driving migrations from existing Elasticsearch environments to OpenSearch.
The ideal candidate combines deep hands-on expertise in OpenSearch/Elasticsearch administration and migration, Terraform Infrastructure as Code (IaC), OpenSearch Dashboards, security and Fine-Grained Access Control (FGAC), JWT-based authentication, Document-Level Security (DLS), Field-Level Security (FLS), and modern CI/CD automation.
The Senior Manager will provide technical leadership across the search platform lifecycle, including architecture, provisioning, upgrades, migration, security, monitoring, performance optimization, automation, incident management, and production operations.
AWS documents OpenSearch fine-grained access control as supporting role-based access and controls at the index, document, and field levels, making these capabilities particularly relevant to the security responsibilities of this role. AWS also supports JWT-based authentication and authorization for Amazon OpenSearch Service when fine-grained access control is enabled.
Key ResponsibilitiesOpenSearch / Elasticsearch Platform Leadership
- Own the architecture, engineering, administration, and operational support of enterprise OpenSearch and Elasticsearch environments.
- Provide technical direction for highly available, scalable, resilient, and secure search platforms.
- Manage cluster configuration, indexing strategies, shard allocation, replicas, lifecycle management, snapshots, backup/recovery, and capacity planning.
- Monitor cluster health and proactively address performance, availability, stability, and scalability issues.
- Lead troubleshooting and root-cause analysis for complex production incidents.
- Establish operational standards, runbooks, monitoring, alerting, and platform governance.
OpenSearch / Elasticsearch Migration
- Lead migrations from existing Elasticsearch environments to OpenSearch, including discovery, assessment, architecture, planning, execution, validation, and production cutover.
Mandatory Skills: App-Cloud-Kubernetes.
Experience: >10 YEARS.
The expected compensation for this role ranges from $100,000 to $220,000 .
Final compensation will depend on various factors, including your geographical location, minimum wage obligations, skills, and relevant experience. Based on the position, the role is also eligible for Wipro's standard benefits including a full range of medical and dental benefits options, disability insurance, paid time off (inclusive of sick leave), other paid and unpaid leave options.
Applicants are advised that employment in some roles may be conditioned on successful completion of a post-offer drug screening, subject to applicable state law.
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