- Maintain and improve enterprise Elastic (ELK) platforms
- Drive automation, upgrades and platform optimisation
- Long‑term contract and permanent employment options available
- Manage the customer‑directed backlog across ITIL incident, problem, request, and change management
- Perform Elastic Stack platform lifecycle activities - version upgrades, security patching, health checks, and remediation across ECE (Elastic Cloud Enterprise) environment
- Build and maintain Logstash pipelines and onboard new data sources to agreed standards
- Design, build, and maintain Kibana dashboards, visualisations, and alerting for mission‑critical systems
- Automate operational and configuration tasks using Ansible and Linux scripting
- Produce operational and executive reporting, converting high‑volume logs and telemetry into clear, actionable insights
- Integrate data across enterprise sources (e.g. JDBC/SAP HANA, SAML, SNMP, Nginx, Dynatrace)
- Contribute to security, risk, and governance documentation, ensuring audit‑ready outputs
- Bridge across multiple delivery, customer, and vendor teams to drive resolution and alignment
- Maintain accurate documentation and support effective knowledge transfer and long‑term system sustainment
- Experience in platform,



systems, or observability engineering within complex environments
- Hands‑on experience with the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, Beats/Elastic Agent); ECE experience highly regarded
- Strong Linux administration (Red Hat Enterprise Linux preferred) and automation using Ansible and scripting
- Experience with ITIL service management — incident, problem, request, and change
- Experience with data integration and pipeline development
- Robust analytical and problem‑solving skills, including turning high‑volume logs into operational and executive reporting
- Excellent communication skills across both technical and non‑technical stakeholders
- Ability to operate with precision within strict government SOPs and manage competing priorities
- Elastic Certified Engineer certified
- ITIL certification
- Experience in secure government or national security environments
- Familiarity with security and compliance frameworks such as ISM, PSPF, or Essential Eight
- Exposure to integrations including SAP HANA, SAML, SNMP, Nginx, and Dynatrace
- Red Hat certification (e.g. RHCSA)

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