ELK Administrator

Accenture Australia; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

18 weeks paid parental leave

Career development program

Family Inclusive Workplace

Flexible Work Arrangements

Global opportunities

Job summary

Accenture Australia invites applications for an ELK Administrator to design, implement, administer and optimize Elastic Stack environments in Melbourne. This hands-on role focuses on delivering reliable monitoring solutions that support critical business services.

You will collaborate with engineering, operations and platform teams to maintain, upgrade and secure the ELK stack, and to build scalable logging, monitoring and alerting capabilities across production and non-production systems.

Qualifications

• Proven hands-on ELK stack administration experience.
• Experience delivering ELK platform upgrades or migrations.
• Strong knowledge of monitoring, alerting, and observability.
• Ability to collaborate with engineering and operations teams.

Responsibilities

• Administer and maintain Elastic Stack environments with focus on stability and security.
• Design and implement monitoring and observability solutions providing insights.
• Lead platform upgrades, migrations, and enhancements with best practices.
• Troubleshoot Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Beats issues and incidents.
• Collaborate with teams to develop scalable logging and alerting capabilities.

Skills

ELK/Elastic Stack

Monitoring & Observability

Elasticsearch

Logstash & Kibana

Troubleshooting

Tools

Elasticsearch

Logstash

Kibana

Beats

Job description

Join us as an ELK Administrator and play a key role in designing, implementing, administering, and optimizing enterprise-scale observability and monitoring platforms. This hands-on technical role is ideal for a skilled ELK professional who enjoys solving complex operational challenges, improving system visibility, and delivering reliable monitoring solutions that support critical business services.

You will work closely with engineering, operations, and platform teams to maintain and enhance Elastic Stack environments, drive platform upgrades, and provide technical expertise across logging, monitoring, and observability capabilities.

About the Work:

• Administer and maintain ELK platforms by ensuring the stability, performance, availability, and security of Elastic Stack environments across production and non-production systems.
• Design and implement monitoring and observability solutions that provide meaningful insights into application, infrastructure, and platform health.
• Lead platform upgrades, migrations, and enhancements, ensuring smooth implementation and adherence to operational best practices.
• Troubleshoot complex technical issues across Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Beats, and associated integrations, driving timely resolution of incidents and performance concerns.
• Collaborate with engineering and operations teams to develop scalable logging, monitoring, alerting, and reporting capabilities that support business and operational objectives.

About You:

• Demonstrated experience as an ELK Administrator or Elastic Stack Engineer, with recent hands-on experience managing enterprise ELK environments.
• Proven experience delivering ELK platform implementations, upgrades, or migrations in complex enterprise environments.
• Strong technical expertise across Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Beats, monitoring, alerting, performance tuning, and troubleshooting.
• Experience designing and building monitoring, logging, and observability solutions that support operational and business outcomes.

Additional Requirements:

Security Clearance Requirement:

Given the secure nature of this role, we are seeking candidates who are Australian Citizens with an active Baseline security clearance.

This requirement ensures that all team members are cleared to handle sensitive information and contribute to maintaining the highest standards of security in our operations.

On-call and Shift Expectations:

Our positions are primarily focused on managed services, meaning you will be responsible for maintaining and improving our clients' IT systems (Applications and Infrastructure). Flexibility and adaptability are key, as you may be required to work in shifts to provide continuous support. Additionally, you may need to be on call to address incidents promptly and perform after-hours deployment activities as needed. Your ability to effectively manage these responsibilities will be crucial to ensuring the seamless operation of our services and client satisfaction.

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Benefits of working at Accenture:

• 18 weeks paid parental leave
• Long & short-term career break opportunities
• Structured career development program
• Local and international career opportunities.
• Certified as a Family Inclusive Workplace™
• Flexible Work Arrangements - centred around Accenture’s Truly Human ethos and our commitment to supporting the health and wellbeing of our people.
• We are proud to be in the top 3 of last year’s Diversity & Inclusion Index!