Job Description

Purpose of Job:

The

ELK Service Architect

is responsible to enhance the monitoring of the Business-Critical applications of the enterprise and align with the standards and policies defined by the Enterprise Tools and CSI department.


An ELK Service Architect is a specialist who uses data to monitor and improve the performance, reliability, and security of infrastructure and services. They design and implement observability solutions using various tools and frameworks.

Academics:

Bachelor's degree or equivalent.

Certifications (preferred):

Elastic Certified Engineer Elastic Certified Observability Engineer

Job knowledge, skills & experience:

Overall 10+ years of experience working within a large enterprise consisting of large and diverse teams. Minimum of 6 years of experience on APM and Monitoring technologies Minimum of 3 years of experience on ELK Design and implement efficient log shipping and data ingestion processes. Collaborate with development and operations teams to enhance logging capabilities. Implement and configure components of the Elastic Stack, including, File beat, Metrics beat, Winlog beat, Logstash and Kibana. Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for Elastic Stack configurations and processes. Ensure seamless integration between various Elastic Stack components. Advance Kibana dashboards and visualizations modelling, deployment. Create and manage Elasticsearch Clusters on premise, including configuration parameters, indexing, search, and query performance tuning, RBAC security governance, and administration. Hands-on Scripting & Programming in Python, Ansible, bash, data parsing (regex), etc. Experience with Security Hardening & Vulnerability/Compliance, OS patching, SSL/SSO/LDAP. Understanding of HA design, cross-site 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, planning, and management. Ability to apply a systematic & creative approach to solve problems, out-of-the-box thinking with a sense of ownership and focus. 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 a different audience. Familiarity with Service now, Confluence and JIRA. Understand SRE and DevOps principles

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

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Technical Skills:

APM Tools -

ELK, AppDynamics, PagerDuty

Programming Languages

- Java / .Net, Python

Operating Systems

- Linux and Windows

Automation

- GitLab, Ansible

Container Orchestration

- Kubernetes

Cloud -

Microsoft Azure and AWS

Behaviour Skills:

Independent, Self-Driven and able to bring ideas to the table Ability to make decisions and drive changes. * Excellent Communication skills and able to communicate with Senior stakeholders as well as with the technical teams.