As an Elastic Stack Engineer, a typical day involves designing, implementing, and supporting enterprise search, log analytics, and observability solutions using Elasticsearch, Kibana, and Logstash. The role focuses on data ingestion, search optimization, dashboard development, monitoring, alerting, and production support within cloud-native environments.

Roles & Responsibilities

Perform independently as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in Elasticsearch, Kibana, and Logstash.

Design and manage Elasticsearch indices, mappings, shard strategies, and Index Lifecycle Management (ILM) policies.

Build and optimize Elasticsearch Query DSL searches, aggregations, and search performance.

Develop and maintain Logstash pipelines for data ingestion, transformation, enrichment, and routing.

Integrate data sources using Elastic Agent, File beat, Metric beat, Fluent, Syslog, Kafka, and application log streams.

Implement event enrichment using tagging, correlation identifiers, and geolocation data.

Develop Kibana dashboards, visualizations, reports,



and alerting solutions for operational and business users.

Configure role-based access control (RBAC), spaces, security policies, and user permissions.

Deploy and manage Elastic Stack components using Docker, Kubernetes, Elastic Cloud on Kubernetes (ECK), and Helm.

Configure platform security, including TLS, authentication, Single Sign-On (SSO), and API keys.

Monitor cluster health, storage utilization, ingestion performance, and search efficiency.

Troubleshoot indexing issues, ingestion failures, dashboard problems, and platform incidents.

Support upgrades, deployment validation, rollback procedures, and release management activities.

Perform root cause analysis and maintain technical documentation.

Participate in production support and on-call activities.

Skilled & Technical Skills

Must-Have Skills

Elasticsearch, Kibana, and Logstash (Primary Skills).

Strong experience with Elasticsearch mappings, analyzers, Query

📌 Elastic Stack Engineer (Hyderabad)
🏢 Trigent Software
📍 Hyderabad