- Company Name
- Attenti Consulting
- Job Title
- Elastic Engineer
- Job Description
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Job title: Elastic Engineer
Role Summary: Deploy, manage, and optimise Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) solutions for a government organisation, ensuring peak performance, security, and high availability across cloud and containerised environments.
Expactations: 12‑month contract, £800/day, inside IR35, remote work; requires active SC clearance (DV clearance desirable).
Key Responsibilities: • Implement, configure, and optimise Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana environments for performance, security, and scalability.
• Design and deploy highly‑available, fault‑tolerant Elastic solutions meeting business requirements.
• Provide ongoing support: troubleshoot performance issues, conduct RCA, and resolve incidents.
• Develop automation scripts for deployment, monitoring, and maintenance.
• Implement security best practices: user access control, data encryption, audit logging.
• Collaborate with dev, infra, and ops teams to integrate Elastic with other systems.
• Document processes, configurations, and troubleshooting procedures.
• Monitor industry trends and contribute continuous improvement initiatives.
Required Skills: • Elastic Certified Engineer or equivalent certification.
• Proven experience deploying, managing, and optimising Elastic Stack in production.
• Expertise in Elastic Stack monitoring, alerting, and performance tuning.
• Proficient scripting in Python, Bash, or similar.
• Familiarity with AWS, Azure or other cloud platforms and containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting abilities for complex technical issues.
• Knowledge of security best practices for sensitive data and government compliance.
• Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, or similar monitoring/logging solutions.
• Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
• Prior work in public sector or large‑scale high‑compliance environments.
Required Education & Certifications: • Elastic Certified Engineer (or equivalent). • Active SC security clearance (DV clearance desirable).