Senior Database Administrator

Publicis Groupe Holdings B.V; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company in Bengaluru is seeking an experienced professional to manage and administer the Elasticsearch, Kibana, and Logstash (ELK Stack) in production. The role involves optimizing clusters, performance tuning, and facilitating collaboration with DevOps and infrastructure teams. Candidates must have 5+ years of relevant experience and strong skills in Linux system administration and automation tools like Terraform and Ansible. This is a full-time on-site position with a commitment to diversity and inclusion.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on experience administering Elasticsearch, Kibana, and Logstash.
• Strong understanding of Elasticsearch cluster architecture and management.
• Experience with Linux system administration (RHEL / Ubuntu).
• Basic scripting skills in Shell or Python preferred.
• Knowledge of Monitoring and Observability concepts.

Responsibilities

• Install, configure, and administer the ELK Stack in production environments.
• Perform cluster scaling, performance tuning, and troubleshooting.
• Ensure high availability and disaster recovery readiness.
• Collaborate with DevOps, Infrastructure, and Monitoring teams.

Skills

Elasticsearch administration

Kibana expertise

Logstash configuration

Linux system administration

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform

Ansible

Version control (Git, Bitbucket)

Scripting (Shell or Python)

SIEM concepts

Tools

Elasticsearch

Kibana

Logstash

Git

Bitbucket

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Responsibilities

• Install, configure, and administer Elasticsearch, Kibana, and Logstash (ELK Stack) in production environments.
• Manage Elasticsearch clusters, including:
  • Index lifecycle management
  • Shard allocation and optimization
  • Replication management
  • Backups and restores
• Perform cluster scaling, performance tuning, and troubleshooting.
• Configure and maintain Logstash pipelines and data ingestion workflows.
• Create and maintain Kibana dashboards and monitoring visualizations.
• Implement and support Observability, Monitoring, and SIEM use cases.
• Manage security configurations, including:
  • Roles and users
  • TLS encryption
  • RBAC policies
• Perform stack upgrades, patching, and regular health checks.
• Collaborate with DevOps, Infrastructure, and Monitoring teams.
• Ensure high availability and disaster recovery readiness.

This role focuses on cluster administration, deployment, performance tuning, scaling, and monitoring, rather than application development.

Qualifications

Required Skills:

• 5+ years of hands‑on experience administering Elasticsearch, Kibana, and Logstash.
• Strong understanding of:
  • Elasticsearch cluster architecture
  • Index management and shard optimization
  • Query performance tuning
  • Snapshot and restore processes
• Experience with Linux system administration (RHEL / Ubuntu).
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and automation tools:
  • Terraform
  • Ansible
• Experience with version control systems:
  • Git
  • Bitbucket
• Knowledge of Monitoring and Observability concepts.
• Experience handling production incidents and troubleshooting.
• Basic scripting skills (Shell or Python preferred).
• Understanding of SIEM and APM concepts.

Good to Have:

• Experience with Elastic Stack X-Pack features.
• Experience integrating ELK with cloud platforms (AWS / Azure / GCP).
• Knowledge of Elastic concepts and Beats, such as:
  • Filebeat
  • Metricbeat
  • Elastic Serverless forwarder
  • APM servers
  • Elastic Agent
  • Elastic Fleet architecture
• Exposure to containerized environments:
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes

Epsilon is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Epsilon is committed to promoting diversity, inclusion, and equal employment opportunities by using reasonable efforts to attract, recruit, engage and retain qualified individuals of all ethnicities and backgrounds, including, but not limited to, women, people of color, LGBTQ individuals, people with disabilities and any other underrepresented groups, traits or characteristics.