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This a Full Remote job, the offer is available from: Illinois (USA)

Position: Elastic (ELK) Engineer/Architect
Duration: 12+ months
Location: Chicago or Tempe, AZ (preferred), remote for the right candidate
Interview: 1 and done hour long interview (2-3 managers)
Summary:

  • Looking for an Elastic Engineer/Architect. They are working to onboard about 50-60 applications and infrastructure logs into Elastic. Elastic was implemented about 2-3 years ago so it's ready, but there's still some opportunity for improvements and efficiency.
  • The Elastic (ELK) Engineer's primary role is to ensure the stable operations of the Elastic (ELK) environment, plus, providing expertise of decommissioning infrastructure.
  • Need someone who comes to them with new ideas and says we need to be doing it this way for XYZ reasons.
  • They'll need an elastic background----- splunk is a competitor of elastic but it's not always a easy transfer, too difficult to learn on the job, so elastic background required
  • Will be engaging with application and infrastructure teams, required to present to them the framework and help them onboard their logs into elastic.

Qualifications:

• Architect, design, install, support, and maintain Elastic (ELK) infrastructure for a highly available and disaster recovery configuration
• Assist with duties as an Administer Elastic (ELK) and Elastic (ELK) Application for Enterprise Monitoring and Tools (EMT)
• Standardize Elastic (ELK) agent deployment, configuration and maintenance across a variety of UNIX and Windows platforms
• Troubleshoot Elastic (ELK) server and agent problems and issues
• Assist internal users of Elastic (ELK) in designing and maintaining production-quality dashboards
• Mentor members of the technical staff to support and assist in Elastic (ELK)-related activities
• Mentor users and other groups on their use of Elastic (ELK)
• Enterprise Security (ES), HTTP Event Collector (HEC), Deployment Servers, Universal Forwarders (UF), Indexer, and Heavy Forwarders (HF)
• Knowledge of user interface frameworks, Java, Application servers
• Requires experience in building and maintaining large-scale 7.x Elastic (ELK) platforms
• Requires experience on-boarding new Elastic (ELK) logs
• Requires experience with administration, architecture, and engineering

Preferred/ Recommended Qualifications:
• Preferred experience with scripting languages to automate tasks and manipulate data
• Preferred recent experience with log collection from source systems
• Preferred Elastic (ELK) Certified Administrator and Elastic (ELK) Enterprise Security Certified Admin

This offer from "Resource Informatics Group, Inc" has been enriched by Jobgether.com and got a 72% flex score.
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