**Applicant must be an Australian Citizen to obtain clearance**
Your new company
An esteemed organisation based in the Australian Capital Territory (Canberra).
Your new role
You will provide technical expertise and hands-on support for the implementation, optimization, and maintenance of the Elastic platform. Your focus will be on strengthening the platform's health, stability, and security through activities such as detection rule development, machine learning optimization, troubleshooting, testing, and knowledge transfer. You will ensure the effective operation and ongoing improvement of the Elastic environment across search, observability, and security use cases.
In this role you will,
- Deliver Elastic solutions to drive customer business value from our products
- Solution design, deployment, and integration of Elastic products and APIs, platform architecture, and capacity planning in mission-critical environments, in particular
- Configure and manage Elasticsearch clusters, including templates, indices, shards, and nodes.
- Monitor Elasticsearch performance metrics and optimize configurations for scalability and efficiency.
- Implement and maintain Logstash pipelines for data ingestion, transformation, and enrichment.
- Data modelling, query development, and optimisation, cluster tuning, and scaling with a focus on fast search and analytics at scale
- Set up and manage Kibana dashboards, visualizations, and alerts to provide actionable insights.
- Collaborate with the development and IT operations teams to troubleshoot and resolve issues related to Elastic Stack components.
- Ensure data integrity, security, and compliance with best practices and regulatory requirements.
- Develop and maintain documentation related to Elastic Stack configurations, processes, and procedures.
What you'll need to succeed
- Must have or be eligible for an Australian Security Clearance.
- Must have working experience in Elastic (or) a certification in Elastic.
- Must have a minimum of two (2) years’ experience working as a consultant, working to deliver and execute on professional services engagements
- Must have two (2) unique customer case studies specific to completed Elastic consulting projects as a Software Engineer, System/Network Administrator, or DevOps Engineer.
- Hands-on experience in on-prem systems and/or public/private cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, GCP, OpenStack.
- Hands-on experience in Linux.
- Good understanding of networking, security, containerization, serverless, DevOps in distributed system landscapes, and infrastructure automation knowledge.
- Experience utilising programming or scripting languages in a corporate environment like Python, JavaScript, Go or Chef/Puppet, etc.
- Understanding of databases
- Strong customer advocacy, relationship-building, and communications skills
- Excel at working directly with customers to gather, prioritise, plan, and execute solutions to customer business requirements as it relates to our technologies.
- Understanding and passion for open-source technology and knowledge and proficiency in at least one programming language
- Hands-on experience with Elasticsearch and/or Lucene
What you'll get in return
- Working in an organisation where they develop and grow careers.
- A long-term opportunity offering an excellent salary. Do not miss out!
What you need to do now
If you're interested in this role or know of someone that may be, please click ‘Apply Now’ or forward an updated CV to Gopalakrishnan.subramanian@hays.com.au
LHS 297508