Systems Engineer ELKnbsp

JOB TITLE: Systems Engineer (ELK)
Remote
12 months

Our Global Technology Solutions group is looking for a Senior Systems & Software Engineer to lead and collaborate with portfolio teams across all LOBs to support a framework that combines engineering and application development to drive operational stability. The ideal candidate will collaborate with the core teams combining software practices and engineering to strengthen the enterprise logging practices along with operational support. Advanced knowledge of system architecture network Centralized Logging (ELK) and operational stability will help transform the way the teams operate today.

Five or more years of experience as a Full stack Linux Systems/Elastic & Application Support Engineer
(Elastic Certified Engineer preferred)
Strong knowledge of Systems Administration in Linux(RHEL/CentOS) and experience in troubleshooting applications running on these systems
Strong Hands on experience Elastic Stack of tools(Elastic Search Logstash & Kibana) that monitor and manage critical applications and infrastructure
Securing maintenance optimization documentation and some design and build Data Analytics & Visualization;
Provide work breakdown and estimates for new requirements & Applying best practices for managing cluster scaling and capacity planning.
Create and manage Elasticsearch Clusters on premise including configuration parameters indexing search and query performance tuning RBAC security governance and administration;
Design and configuration of ETL data pipelines using Elastic Common Schema to onboard application logs and metrics;
Configuration of index templates and data life cycle management ILM for data retention;
Designing and implementing solutions for centralized logs infrastructure and health metrics distributed tracing for different applications.
Create Dashboard on KPIs and Fine tune bulk load process.
Hands on Scripting & Programming in Python Ansible bash data parsing (regex) etc.
Good knowledge with Tomcat MySQLnginx haproxy
Experience with Security Hardening & Vulnerability/Compliance OS patching SSL/SSO/LDAP
Understanding of HA design crosssite replication local and global load balancers etc
Data ingestion & enrichment from various sources webhooks and REST APIs with JSON/YAML/XML payloads & testing POSTMAN etc.
CI/CD Deployment pipeline experience (Ansible GIT)
Strong knowledge of performance monitoring metrics capacity planning and management
Familiarity with Confluence and JIRA
Ability to apply a systematic & creative approach to solve problems out of box thinking with a sense of ownership and focus
Strong skills in creating documentation engineering runbooks support procedures user onboarding and support documentation
Experience with application onboarding capturing requirements understanding data sources architecture diagrams application relationships etc.
Influencing other teams and engineering groups in adopting logging best practices.
Effective communication skills with the ability to articulate technical details to different audience