Platform Support Engineer - Elastic Stack - £700 per day - 6 months

JR United Kingdom; London; Hybrid; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Platform Support Engineer specializing in Elastic Stack for a 6-month contract in London. The role involves providing support for electronic trading systems and requires expert knowledge of ELK infrastructure. Candidates should have strong networking knowledge and scripting skills to automate processes. This hybrid role allows for flexibility with three days in the office and two days from home.

Qualifications

• Expert-level knowledge of Elastic Stack required.
• Experience in architecting and managing ELK infrastructure.
• Scripting proficiency in Python and/or PowerShell.

Responsibilities

• Provide application platform support to the ENET environment.
• Manage ELK infrastructure across distributed environments.
• Integrate ELK with packet capture tools.

Skills

Elastic Stack

IP Networking

Data Pipeline Creation

Scripting

Tools

Python

PowerShell

Corvil

Pico

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Platform Support Engineer - Elastic Stack - £700 per day - 6 months, london

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Client:

Hawksworth

Location:

london, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Other

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EU work permit required:

Yes

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Job Views:

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Posted:

16.05.2025

Expiry Date:

30.06.2025

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Job Description:

Hawksworth is now recruiting for a Platform Support Engineer (Elastic Stack) for an inside IR35 Contract paying up to £700 per day for a 6 months assignment.

This is a London based role, x3 days in the office, x2 days from home.

The successful engineer with join a team that provides application platform support to the ENET environment, the dedicated environment used to support electronic trading systems.

Required skills & Experience:

• Expert-level knowledge of the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Beats), with proven experience in architecting, deploying, and managing ELK infrastructure across distributed, high-performance environments.
• Strong understanding of index lifecycle management (ILM), shard optimization, and cluster health monitoring to support low latency applications.
• Practical and working knowledge of IP networking and data flow within distributed systems.
• Experience integrating ELK with packet capture/analysis tools to enhance observability of real-time systems.
• Hands-on expertise in data pipeline creation, ingestion strategies, and performance tuning of Logstash and Beats for scalable telemetry.
• Knowledge of Corvil and/or Pico tools is highly beneficial but not essential, particularly for ingesting network telemetry into Elasticsearch.
• Scripting proficiency in Python and/or PowerShell to automate ELK deployment, monitoring, and alerting pipelines.

If you have the above experience please apply now for a quick response!