Elastic SME

Elastic SME / Elastic Stack Engineer

4 days insite 1 day home

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 to under take DV security clearance (you must be a British citizen and have lived in the UK for the last 10 years)

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

Administer and optimise large-scale Elasticsearch clusters

Deliver Elastic Security (SIEM) and Elastic Observability solutions

Build ingestion pipelines using Logstash, Elastic Agent and Beats

Configure Kibana dashboards, visualisations, RBAC and reporting

Implement TLS, PKI, LDAP/Active Directory, SAML and platform hardening

Optimise cluster performance, JVM, shards, ILM and storage

Automate deployments and operational tasks using PowerShell, REST APIs, Python and/or Ansible

Provide 3rd/4th line support, troubleshooting and RCA

Produce HLDs, LLDs, SOPs, runbooks and DR documentation

Essential experience:

Enterprise on-premises Elastic Stack experience

Strong Elasticsearch, Kibana and Logstash experience

Strong Elastic Agent, Beats and Fleet experience

Strong Elastic Security (SIEM) and Elastic Observability experience

Experience managing large, highly available Elasticsearch clusters

Splunk experience

Strong automation experience

You must have proven experience administering enterprise on-premises Elastic Stack environments, including Elasticsearch clusters, Elastic Security (SIEM) and Elastic Observability.

This role particularly suits an Elastic SME / Elastic Stack Engineer with extensive Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, Elastic Agent, Fleet, Elastic Security and Elastic Observability experience