Lead ELK Platform Engineer - Hybrid

Keller Schroeder; Evansville (IN); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Keller Schroeder seeks a Lead Platform Engineer – ELK Stack Administration for a hybrid engagement near Evansville, IN. You will administer and optimize Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) across cloud and on‑prem environments, focusing on reliability, security, scalability, and performance.

The role involves design, deployment, monitoring, automation, and cross‑functional collaboration in an Agile setting.

Qualifications

• Advanced hands-on experience administering production ELK/Elastic Stack environments, including Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana.
• Strong knowledge of Elasticsearch cluster architecture, including node roles, shards, replicas, mappings, templates, aliases, data streams, and index lifecycle management.
• Experience deploying, configuring, monitoring, maintaining, and troubleshooting highly available multi-node Elasticsearch clusters.
• Proven ability to diagnose and resolve cluster health, indexing, query performance, shard allocation, JVM, storage, and data-ingestion issues.
• Experience performing Elastic Stack upgrades, patching, migrations, backups, snapshots, restoration, and disaster-recovery activities.
• Experience designing and maintaining Logstash pipelines, Elasticsearch ingest pipelines, Beats, Elastic Agent, or equivalent data-ingestion integrations.
• Knowledge of Elastic security capabilities, including authentication, authorization, role-based access control, encryption, certificates, and audit logging.

Responsibilities

• ELK Stack Administration and Operations
• Platform Design and Engineering
• Performance, Reliability, and Capacity Management
• Automation and DevOps Integration
• Observability and Operational Excellence
• Technical Leadership and Collaboration
• Mentorship and Continuous Improvement
• May assist with additional platform engineering, DevOps, automation, cloud, infrastructure, and operational duties based on business needs.

Skills

ELK Stack

Platform engineering

DevOps

Automation

Python

Bash

CI/CD

Cloud & On-prem

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Elasticsearch

Logstash

Kibana

Beats

Elastic Agent

Git

Job description

Keller Schroeder seeks a Lead Platform Engineer – ELK Stack Administration for a hybrid engagement near Evansville, IN. You will administer and optimize Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) across cloud and on‑prem environments, focusing on reliability, security, scalability, and performance.

The role involves design, deployment, monitoring, automation, and cross‑functional collaboration in an Agile setting.