Job Description

I&O; Platform Infrastructure Application Performance Management and Logging (ELK) SME

Assistant Director | Enterprise Technology

The opportunity

In a plan to strengthen and extend our footprint in EY Enterprise Technology, we are looking for a proven Application Performance Management (APM) and Logging SME to support and evolve EY's monitoring and observability platforms globally. The role will provide engineering leadership, operational support, automation and lifecycle management for the firm's APM tooling and the ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) stack. The successful candidate will work with cutting-edge observability technologies, driving platform maturity, operational excellence and engineering innovation across EY's global infrastructure estate.

Your key responsibilities

The I&O; Platform Infrastructure APM and Logging SME provides technical leadership and engineering of complex nature for the firms application performance monitoring and centralized logging platforms. This professional applies knowledge of APM solutions, the ELK stack, log management, metrics pipelines and distributed tracing to support enterprise-scale workloads and enable rapid incident response.

The role requires deep knowledge of the firm's infrastructure monitoring landscape to implement platform enhancements, lifecycle management activities, onboarding programs, security initiatives and operational improvements. The SME will serve as the subject matter authority for APM and logging platforms, partnering with application teams, infrastructure engineers and security stakeholders across global locations to ensure observability coverage, data quality and platform reliability.

Skills and attributes for success





- Robust experience designing, deploying and administering ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) at enterprise scale.
- Deep knowledge of APM tooling (e.g., Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Elastic APM, New Relic or equivalent).
- Experience architecting centralized logging solutions and log aggregation pipelines.
- Strong understanding of metrics, traces and logs as the three pillars of observability.
- Experience with Elasticsearch cluster management, index lifecycle management (ILM) and snapshot/restore.
- Knowledge of Logstash pipeline development and Beats (Filebeat, Metricbeat, Winlogbeat) deployment.
- Experience building Kibana dashboards, visualizations and alerting rules.
- Experience with log parsing, field extraction, grok patterns and data enrichment.
- Knowledge of distributed tracing frameworks and instrumentation approaches.
- Python, PowerShell, Bash / Shell scripting

To qualify for the role, you must have experience with

- ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) - enterprise-scale deployment and administration. 7+ years.
- APM platform engineering and administration (Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Elastic APM or equivalent). 7+ years.
- Centralized logging architecture design and operations. 7+ years.
- Elasticsearch cluster management, performance tuning and capacity planning. 7+ years.




- Logstash pipeline development and Beats agent fleet management. 5-7 years.
- Kibana dashboard and visualization development. 5-7 years.
- Index lifecycle management (ILM), hot-warm-cold architecture and data tiering. 5-7 years.
- Log parsing, grok pattern development and field enrichment. 5-7 years.

Ideally, youll also have

- Elastic Certified Engineer or Elastic Certified Analyst certification (desired).
- Dynatrace Associate or Professional certification (desired).
- Microsoft Azure Administrator or equivalent cloud certification (desired).
- ITIL v4 Foundation certification (exclusionary).
- Experience with OpenTelemetry (OTel) standards and collector configuration.
- Experience with Elastic Cloud or Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK).
- Familiarity with cloud-native logging solutions (Azure Monitor, AWS CloudWatch, GCP Cloud Logging).
- Experience operating in a managed service or large enterprise shared services environment.

What we look for

An experienced and technically deep observability engineer and leader to help build, operate and modernize EY's APM and centralized logging platforms. We are looking for an individual with proven expertise in ELK stack engineering, strong APM platform knowledge, a passion for operational excellence and automation, and the ability to serve as the technical authority for monitoring and observability across EY.

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