ELK Cloud Specialist
Posted 1 week ago by Atrium Workforce Solutions UK Limited
£600 Per day
Inside
Hybrid
England, UK
Summary: The ELK Cloud Specialist role is a 6-month contract based in Edinburgh or Glasgow, requiring expertise in software development, infrastructure engineering, and operations. The position focuses on enhancing the Agency's Logging Monitoring and Alerting (LMA) implementation of ELK, utilizing strong skills in Elastic, Logstash, and Kibana. The ideal candidate will be a dynamic, motivated individual with excellent problem-solving abilities and a commitment to high-quality standards. This role is crucial for developing a technology capability that can adapt to support business outcomes.
Key Responsibilities:
- Support the development and operation of software through tools, environments, and practices.
- Utilize engineering experience to enhance the ELK implementation.
- Design, maintain, and manage Elastic stacks (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana).
- Configure and maintain large Elastic clusters.
- Work with large data sets and implement elastic indexing best practices.
- Manage performance and tuning of the Elasticsearch environment.
- Write data ingestion pipelines using Logstash and other big data technologies.
Key Skills:
- Broad experience in software development, infrastructure engineering, and operations.
- Strong expertise in Elastic, Logstash, and Kibana.
- Professional experience in designing and managing Elastic stacks.
- Experience with large Elastic clusters and data sets.
- Good understanding of visualization components in Elasticsearch.
- Proven experience in performance management of Elasticsearch.
- Strong skills in writing data ingestion pipelines.
Salary (Rate): £600 per day
City: Edinburgh
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Contract Role - ELK Cloud Specialist - Edinburgh/Glasgow/Hybrid - 6 months - Inside IR35
Role Overview:
* Job Title: ELK Cloud Specialist
* Location: Edinburgh/Glasgow/Hybrid (There is some flexibility here)
* Contract Type: Contract
* Duration: 06 months
* The ELK Cloud Specialist will have broad experience of software development, infrastructure engineering and operations and will understand the goals and strategy behind each project from conception through completion. They will support the development and operation of software through tools, environments and practices and are responsible for underpinning good development processes.
* This ELK SME adaptation utilises engineering experience as the base skill set but also extends into strong Elastic, Logstash and Kibana experience, allowing change and improvement within the Agency's Logging Monitoring and Alerting (LMA) implementation of ELK.
* The role requires a dynamic, highly motivated individual with the ability to work under pressure and have well developed problem solving skills. You must be an excellent team player, quick learner and self-starter dedicated to maintaining high quality standards. This is a key role in order to ensure that Social Security Scotland develops a future technology capability which can be rapidly changed to support business outcomes
* ELK SME Extension
* Professional experience in the design, maintenance and management of Elastic stacks (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)
* Experience of configuring and maintaining large Elastic clusters
* Experience working with large data sets and elastic indexing best practices.
* Good understanding on Visualisation components and techniques in Elasticsearch.
* Proven experience in performance management and tuning of Elasticsearch environment.
* Strong experience in writing data ingestion pipelines using Logstash and other big data technologies.
Please feel free to contact myself - Daisy Nguyen ( (see below) ) at Gibbs Consulting/Atrium UK for a confidential chat to know more details about the role.
Please also note: Due to the volume of applications received for positions, it will not be possible to respond to all applications and only applicants who are considered suitable for interview will be contacted.