ELk Engineer

Title- ELK Engineer
Location- Plano, TX - Fully Onsite From Day-1
Type- Contract - C2C
Duration- 18 months+/Long Term

Job Description-

Roles, and Responsibilities:
Design, implementation and operation/administration of Elastic Stack.
Designing and implementing Elastic Stack scalability and availability/redundancy.
Design, implement and troubleshoot Logstash, Metricbeat and Filebeat.
Implement and troubleshoot log forwarding and ingestion into Elastic Stack with performance, scalability and availability as requirements.
Create and update scripts to enhance automation, operations and management of the system with Python, shell scripts or Powershell.
Manage and troubleshoot Elastic Cloud for Kubernetes instances.
Collaborates with team members to determine best practices and client requirements for needed software products. Ability to adapt to an evolving process and application. Willingness to experiment and try new approaches to solve old and new problems.
Supports innovation, strategic planning, technical proof of concepts, testing, lab work, and various other technical program management.

Primary / Mandatory skills:
Proven experience working across the elastic Stack.
Has cloud experience with Elastic. Primarily Elastic Cloud for Kubernetes (ECK)
Understand how to deploy nodes in Azure.
Able to manage / support pipelines in Azure
o Create indexes / data streams
o Define ILM policies
o Able to parse data from different raw sources
o Able to enrich data
Ability to troubleshoot Elastic indexes, shards, and errors.
Able to work with free version of Elastic / build tools to assist in its operation.
Understand how Logstash, Metricbeat, and Filebeat work.
How to integrate as forwarders to Elastic and Kafka.
Able to manage / support multiple elastic clusters.
Able to architect ILM policies with node resources in mind.
Has experience with elastic agents / fleet.
Experience with design, implementation and support of Azure components, including databases and networking.