JPC - 39742 - ELK/Elasticsearch Engineer

Role: ELK/Elasticsearch Engineer

Location: Irving, TX

Full Time

Job Description

Responsibilities:

•        Designs, implements, and configures Kibana visualizations as required by the business.

•        Configures Logstash, FileBeats, MetricsBeats and possibly other ELK Stack components to collect and the store the data necessary to meet business requirements efficiently.

•        Consulting experience in the area of application support and log monitoring.

•        Solve our customers’ most challenging data problems and lead the data analytics and log onboarding requirements.

•        Strong customer advocacy, relationship building, and communications skills.

•        Strong data analysis skills; ability to independently write scripts/code to parse and analyze complex data.

•        Drive and work closely with ELK customer to deliver business value with less supervision.

•        Excel at working directly with customers support teams to gather, prioritize, plan and execute solutions to customer business requirements as it relates to ELK technologies

•        Foster an environment of trust, mutual respect, kindness, and accountability.

•        Design, create, deliver, and support the deployment of Ansible automation as required for ELK and other technology stack such as AppyDynamics/ITRS.

Education

•        BS or MS in Computer Science and/or equivalent work experience required.

Knowledge/Skills

Required

•        Must have worked in ELK implementation project, and Logstash data parsing rules.

•        Expertise in log monitoring standards.

•        Experience in ELK stack or other logging / stats / visualization tools.

•        Expertise in Log monitoring tools like Splunk, ELK, SumLogic, Loggly etc.

•        Hands-on experience and an understanding of Elasticsearch and/or Lucene.

•        MUST be able and willing to learn new technologies(Ansible) rapidly and independently.

•        Minimum of 5 years’ experience as a Software Engineer, System Administrator, or Monitoring Engineer.

•        Coding skills with at least one of the following – Python, Ruby (preferred) or Unix Shell.

•        Experience in databases, Linux/Unix environment, software development, and/or experience with distributed systems.

•        Experience and interest in delivering ELK solutions to customers.

•        Experience working as individual contributor or lead with less supervision.

•        You possess excellent practical judgment and know-how to effectively allocate your time when solving hard problems.

•        Strong soft skills required for effective communication with business decision makers, colleagues, and others.

Preferred

•        Minimum of 3 years of programming proficiency required in any programming language.

•        Familiarity with Java Log4j framework a plus.

•        Familiarity with RESTFul API usage/development a plus.

•        Working knowledge of both Windows and Linux operating systems a plus.