Senior Cloud Engineer - AWS/ELK - Hybrid
Posted 1 day ago by Sanderson Government & Defence
£600 Per day
Inside
Hybrid
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Summary: We're looking for an experienced Senior Cloud Engineer with specialist ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) expertise to join Social Security Scotland on a 6-month contract. This role is ideal for Cloud Engineers with a strong public sector track record who want to make a real impact on secure, large-scale services. You'll play a key part in enhancing the organisation's Logging, Monitoring, and Alerting (LMA) capability, working on the design, maintenance, and optimisation of Elastic stacks and clusters.
Key Responsibilities:
- Enhance the organisation's Logging, Monitoring, and Alerting (LMA) capability.
- Design, maintain, and optimise Elastic stacks and clusters.
- Work on data ingestion pipelines and performance tuning.
- Build effective visualisations from large data sets.
Key Skills:
- 2+ years as an ELK SME (Elastic, Logstash, Kibana).
- Proven experience designing, managing, and tuning large Elastic clusters.
- Strong skills in data ingestion pipelines and indexing best practices.
- Knowledge of visualisation techniques in Elasticsearch.
- Background in software development, infrastructure engineering, and operations.
Salary: £600 per day
City: Edinburgh
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: Senior
Industry: IT
Position: Cloud EngineerType: Contract (Inside IR35) Duration: 6 Months
Location: Edinburgh/Glasgow
Hybrid: (2 Days/Week On-Site)
We're looking for an experienced Senior Cloud Engineer with specialist ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) expertise to join Social Security Scotland on a 6-month contract. This role is ideal for Cloud Engineers with a strong public sector track record who want to make a real impact on secure, large-scale services.
You'll play a key part in enhancing the organisation's Logging, Monitoring, and Alerting (LMA) capability, working on the design, maintenance, and optimisation of Elastic stacks and clusters. The role requires hands-on experience with data ingestion pipelines, performance tuning, and building effective visualisations from large data sets.
Key Skills & Experience:
2+ years as an ELK SME (Elastic, Logstash, Kibana)
Proven experience designing, managing, and tuning large Elastic clusters
Strong skills in data ingestion pipelines and indexing best practices
Knowledge of visualisation techniques in Elasticsearch
Background in software development, infrastructure engineering, and operations
Location: Edinburgh/Glasgow (on-site 2 days per week on average, flexibility required)
This is a fantastic opportunity for a motivated, hands-on engineer to contribute to future-proofing public sector technology in Scotland.
If you're interested in hearing more about this role, get in touch with me
(see below) | 020 4518 0659
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