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Elastic Engineer Services Australia - Showtime Consulting

Polluxa, Inc.Canberra, Australian Capital Territory🇦🇺AustraliaPosted 6 Sept 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

This hybrid role offers a fantastic opportunity to advance your career by optimizing and automating enterprise Elastic platforms, developing valuable skills in a respected company. You'll thrive if you're a mid-senior engineer with a knack for problem-solving and a passion for data insights, and you're encouraged to apply to shape mission-critical systems.

Quick Overview

Seniority
Mid Senior
Employment type
Full Time
Work mode
Hybrid
Location
Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

Job Description

  • Maintain and improve enterprise Elastic (ELK) platforms
  • Drive automation, upgrades and platform optimisation
  • Long term contract and permanent employment options available
  • Manage the customer directed backlog across ITIL incident, problem, request, and change management
  • Perform Elastic Stack platform lifecycle activities - version upgrades, security patching, health checks, and remediation across ECE (Elastic Cloud Enterprise) environment
  • Build and maintain Logstash pipelines and onboard new data sources to agreed standards
  • Design, build, and maintain Kibana dashboards, visualisations, and alerting for mission critical systems
  • Automate operational and configuration tasks using Ansible and Linux scripting
  • Produce operational and executive reporting, converting high volume logs and telemetry into clear, actionable insights
  • Integrate data across enterprise sources (e.g. JDBC/SAP HANA, SAML, SNMP, Nginx, Dynatrace)
  • Contribute to security, risk, and governance documentation, ensuring audit ready outputs
  • Bridge across multiple delivery, customer, and vendor teams to drive resolution and alignment
  • Maintain accurate documentation and support effective knowledge transfer and long term system sustainment
  • Experience in platform, systems, or observability engineering within complex environments
  • Hands on experience with the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, Beats/Elastic Agent); ECE experience highly regarded
  • Strong Linux administration (Red Hat Enterprise Linux preferred) and automation using Ansible and scripting
  • Experience with ITIL service management - incident, problem, request, and change
  • Experience with data integration and pipeline development
  • Strong analytical and problem solving skills, including turning high volume logs into operational and executive reporting
  • Excellent communication skills across both technical and non technical stakeholders
  • Ability to operate with precision within strict government SOPs and manage competing priorities
  • Elastic Certified Engineer certified
  • ITIL certification
  • Experience in secure government or national security environments
  • Familiarity with security and compliance frameworks such as ISM, PSPF, or Essential Eight
  • Exposure to integrations including SAP HANA, SAML, SNMP, Nginx, and Dynatrace
  • Red Hat certification (e.g. RHCSA)

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