Elastic Search Engineer

Xllow Inc; United States; On-site; USD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology company in the United States is seeking an ELK platform administrator to drive the deployment of ELK platform dashboards, assist internal users, and maintain the ELK infrastructure. Candidates should have a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering and 5-7 years of relevant experience in ELK administration. This role involves a hands-on approach to troubleshooting and optimizing the system for various use cases.

Qualifications

• Five to seven years of relevant experience in ELK platform administration.
• Experience with design and supporting the ELK platform infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Drive deployments of ELK platform dashboards and reports.
• Assist internal users in maintaining production-quality dashboards.
• Monitor the ELK infrastructure for capacity planning and optimization.

Skills

Server-side scripting

ELK platform implementation

Virtualization technologies

Linux system administration

Windows system administration

Operations documentation

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Job description

Responsibilities

• Familiarity with server-side scripting
• Drive deployments of ELK platform dashboards and reports while working side by side with the customers to solve their unique problems across a variety of use cases
• Assist internal users of ELK platform in designing and maintaining production-quality dashboards.
• Experience in design, implementation, and support of ELK platform (Indexers, Forwarders, Search-Heads Setup etc.)
• Experience with implementing and administering ELK platform
• Good understanding with virtualization technologies (Hypervisor, VMware, etc.)
• Apps/Dashboards for license usage and Application errors.
• Experience with Linux and Windows agents for ELK platform administration with a solid understanding of the ELK system.
• Ability to create operations documentation for maintaining the ELK platform.
• Setting up ELK Forwarding for new application tiers introduced into the environment.
• Identifying bad searches/dashboards and partnering with the creators to improve performance.
• Monitor the ELK infrastructure for capacity planning and optimization.
• Troubleshoot log feeds, field extractions, search time, etc.
• Restrict access to sensitive logs/data
• Experience in onboarding new data, inputting new information, Creating new dashboards, Extraction info through ELK
• Report generation and customization

Required Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Engineering or equivalent experience.
• Five to seven years of relevant experience