Elastic SME

Elastic SME / Elastic Stack Engineer<br />4 days insite 1 day home<br />Great opportunity for an experienced Elastic SME to design, implement, optimise and support a secure, enterprise-scale on-premises Elastic Stack environment. The role is working in a Defence and National Security environment; as such, you MUST be willing and able ot under take DV security clearance (you must be a British citizen and have lived in the UK for the last 10 years)<br />You’ll take technical ownership of the Elastic platform, supporting Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, Beats, Elastic Agent, Fleet, Elastic Security (SIEM) and Elastic Observability across a complex enterprise estate.

Key responsibilities:

Design and support resilient, highly available on-premises Elastic Stack environments<br />Administer and optimise large-scale Elasticsearch clusters<br />Deliver Elastic Security (SIEM) and Elastic Observability solutions<br />Build ingestion pipelines using Logstash, Elastic Agent and Beats<br />Configure Kibana dashboards, visualisations, RBAC and reporting<br />Implement TLS, PKI, LDAP/Active Directory, SAML and platform hardening<br />Optimise cluster performance, JVM, shards, ILM and storage<br />Automate deployments and operational tasks using PowerShell, REST APIs, Python and/or Ansible<br />Provide 3rd/4th line support, troubleshooting and RCA<br />Produce HLDs, LLDs, SOPs, runbooks and DR documentation Essential experience: Enterprise on-premises Elastic Stack experience<br />Strong Elasticsearch, Kibana and Logstash experience<br />Strong Elastic Agent, Beats and Fleet experience<br />Strong Elastic Security (SIEM) and Elastic Observability experience<br />Experience managing large, highly available Elasticsearch clusters<br />Splunk experience<br />Strong automation experience You must have proven experience administering enterprise on-premises Elastic Stack environments, including Elasticsearch clusters, Elastic Security (SIEM) and Elastic Observability.<br />This role particularly suits an Elastic SME / Elastic Stack Engineer with extensive Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, Elastic Agent, Fleet, Elastic Security and Elastic Observability experience