Secure Elastic Platform Engineer – Observability & Automation

Showtime Consulting; Australian Capital Territory; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Part time

Job summary

Showtime Consulting is seeking an experienced Elastic Platform Engineer (Resident Engineer) to support a secure government program in Australia. You will maintain an observability and search platform (Elastic Stack) with a focus on health, security, and continuous improvement, coordinating with multiple teams in a fast-paced ITIL-governed setting.

You’ll manage backlogs, perform upgrades, build dashboards, automate tasks, and provide insightful reporting while ensuring audit-ready governance and

Qualifications

• Hands-on platform or observability engineering in complex environments.
• Strong Linux administration and automation with Ansible/scripting.
• Experience with ITIL incident, problem, request, and change management.

Responsibilities

• Manage customer-directed backlog across ITIL processes.
• Perform Elastic Stack lifecycle activities including upgrades and patching.
• Build and maintain Logstash pipelines and onboard new data sources.
• Design, build, and maintain Kibana dashboards, visualisations and alerts.
• Automate tasks with Ansible and scripting; document operations.
• Produce operational and executive reporting from logs/telemetry.
• Ensure audit-ready security, risk, and governance documentation.
• Coordinate with delivery, customer, and vendor teams to drive alignment.
• Maintain documentation for knowledge transfer and sustainment.

Skills

Elastic Stack

Linux administration

Ansible

ITIL service management

Data integration

SAML

Nginx

Dynatrace

Tools

Elastic Cloud Enterprise (ECE)

Kibana

JDBC/SAP HANA

Job description

Showtime Consulting is seeking an experienced Elastic Platform Engineer (Resident Engineer) to support a secure government program in Australia. You will maintain an observability and search platform (Elastic Stack) with a focus on health, security, and continuous improvement, coordinating with multiple teams in a fast-paced ITIL-governed setting.

You’ll manage backlogs, perform upgrades, build dashboards, automate tasks, and provide insightful reporting while ensuring audit-ready governance and