Certification Developer

We are currently seeking a Certification Developer to join Elasticsearch. Our mission is to create and maintain a Certification program that is recognized by the industry as a meaningful and significant measure of an individual’s competence and expertise with the Elastic Stack. Our current Elastic Certifications are hands-on performance-based exams that require completing a series of timed real-world tasks on Elasticsearch clusters in a proctored environment.

A successful candidate will be happy working on their own initiative and does not require micro-management. Most of the team works remotely and we are happy to consider you wherever you live. Do you want to have direct influence on building and maintaining our certification program? Come join us at Elastic!

Responsibilities:

• Keep existing Elastic certification exam questions up-to-date with the fast-changing features of Elasticsearch and Kibana.

• Work closely with our certification platform vendor during the development testing and provisioning of exams and automatic grading scripts.

• Assist in working with our subject matter experts cross-functionally to create Job Task Analyses for new exams.

• Provide light customer support to resolve issues or questions for candidates attempting our certification exams.

• Assist with grading and recording exams.

Preferred Qualifications & Skills:

• Deep understanding of Elasticsearch including Elastic certifications

  • Experience working for a Certification program in the software industry

  • A minimum of 4 years experience working as an engineer developer or integrator in information retrieval or related technologies

  • A minimum of 2 years experience building and developing curriculum ideally certification content

  • Strong knowledge of the Python programming language (and related ecosystem and libraries) in the Linux/Unix environment software development and/or experience with search databases and distributed systems.

  • Strong knowledge of GitHub and automation using GitHub Actions.

  • Familiarity with AWS and building AWS infrastructure using Ansible Packer and Terraform.

  • Standout colleague with strong interpersonal and communication skills

  • Demonstrated ability to exercise confidentiality and neutrality in complex and sensitive situations