Elastic SME

Fynity Limited; North Hertfordshire; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Fynity Limited is seeking an experienced Elastic SME to design, implement, optimise and support a secure, enterprise-scale on-premises Elastic Stack environment. The role requires DV security clearance and British citizenship with UK residency for the last 10 years.

You will own the Elastic platform, supporting Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, Beats, Fleet, Elastic Security and Elastic Observability across a complex enterprise estate.

Qualifications

• Enterprise on-premises Elastic Stack experience.
• Strong Elasticsearch, Kibana and Logstash experience.
• Strong Elastic Agent, Beats and Fleet experience.
• Strong Elastic Security (SIEM) and Elastic Observability experience.
• Experience managing large, highly available Elasticsearch clusters.
• Splunk experience.
• Strong automation experience.

Responsibilities

• Design and support resilient, highly available on-premises Elastic Stack environments.
• Administer and optimise large-scale Elasticsearch clusters.
• Deliver Elastic Security (SIEM) and Elastic Observability solutions.
• Build ingestion pipelines using Logstash, Elastic Agent and Beats.
• Configure Kibana dashboards, visualisations, RBAC and reporting.
• Implement TLS, PKI, LDAP/Active Directory, SAML and platform hardening.
• Optimise cluster performance, JVM, shards, ILM and storage.
• Automate deployments and operational tasks using PowerShell, REST APIs, Python and/or Ansible.
• Provide 3rd/4th line support, troubleshooting and RCA.
• Produce HLDs, LLDs, SOPs, runbooks and DR documentation.

Skills

Elastic Stack

Elasticsearch

Kibana

Logstash

Beats

Fleet

Elastic Security

Observability

Automation

PowerShell

Python

Ansible

Tools

PowerShell

REST APIs

Python

Ansible

Job description

Elastic SME / Elastic Stack Engineer

4 days insite 1 day home

Great opportunity for an experienced Elastic SME to design, implement, optimise and support a secure, enterprise-scale on-premises Elastic Stack environment. The role is working in a Defence and National Security environment; as such, you MUST be willing and able ot under take DV security clearance (you must be a British citizen and have lived in the UK for the last 10 years)

You’ll take technical ownership of the Elastic platform, supporting Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, Beats, Elastic Agent, Fleet, Elastic Security (SIEM) and Elastic Observability across a complex enterprise estate.

Key responsibilities

• Design and support resilient, highly available on-premises Elastic Stack environments
• Administer and optimise large-scale Elasticsearch clusters
• Deliver Elastic Security (SIEM) and Elastic Observability solutions
• Build ingestion pipelines using Logstash, Elastic Agent and Beats
• Configure Kibana dashboards, visualisations, RBAC and reporting
• Implement TLS, PKI, LDAP/Active Directory, SAML and platform hardening
• Optimise cluster performance, JVM, shards, ILM and storage
• Automate deployments and operational tasks using PowerShell, REST APIs, Python and/or Ansible
• Provide 3rd/4th line support, troubleshooting and RCA
• Produce HLDs, LLDs, SOPs, runbooks and DR documentation

Essential experience

• Enterprise on-premises Elastic Stack experience
• Strong Elasticsearch, Kibana and Logstash experience
• Strong Elastic Agent, Beats and Fleet experience
• Strong Elastic Security (SIEM) and Elastic Observability experience
• Experience managing large, highly available Elasticsearch clusters
• Splunk experience
• Strong automation experience

You must have proven experience administering enterprise on-premises Elastic Stack environments, including Elasticsearch clusters, Elastic Security (SIEM) and Elastic Observability.

This role particularly suits an Elastic SME / Elastic Stack Engineer with extensive Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, Elastic Agent, Fleet, Elastic Security and Elastic Observability experience