Job Title: Senior ELK Engineer
Purpose of the Role
The Senior ELK Engineer is responsible for end-to-end onboarding of application logs into the ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) platform across AWS, Azure, and On-Prem environments. The role focuses on Elastic Agent–based ingestion, Fleet management, dashboards, alerts, and platform stability.
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Experience & Qualification
- 8 to 10 years of hands-on experience with the ELK / Elastic Stack
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
- Onboard application logs into ELK from end to end (UAT & PROD)
- Work with application teams to collect log sources, formats, and requirements
- Configure Elastic Agent using Fleet (agent lifecycle management)
- Install and troubleshoot Elastic Agents
- Design and maintain Logstash pipelines and Grok patterns (automation wherever possible)
- Validate log ingestion, mappings, and pipelines
- Create and maintain Kibana dashboards and alerts
- Configure and manage ILM policies
- Support Cross-Cluster Search (CCS) and multi-cluster setups
- Manage on prem ELK Disaster Recovery (DR) setups, including failover and recovery validation
- Knowledge of ServiceNow Change Management processes and enterprise IT change controls.
- Troubleshoot ingestion, performance, and mapping issues
- Maintain SOPs, runbooks, and onboarding documentation
- Self-driven and independent
- Strong communication skills
- Able to work with multiple teams and senior stakeholders
- Team player with customer focus