Elastic Consultant

ELK Consultant
Location: Sydney and Canberra
1 Year contract
Hybrid working arrangement

Role Overview:
As an ELK Consultant, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and optimising our client's ELK stack-based solutions. You will work closely with DevOps, Security, and Infrastructure teams to build scalable, resilient, and insightful logging and analytics pipelines.

Key Responsibilities:

• Deliver tailored Elastic Stack solutions that help clients extract value from data in real time.
• Design and implement solutions involving Elastic product APIs, architecture planning, capacity scaling, and high availability setups.
• Configure and maintain Elasticsearch clusters including templates, shards, indices, and node management.
• Monitor performance and tune Elasticsearch for optimal scalability, resilience, and speed.
• Develop and manage Logstash pipelines for ingesting, transforming, and enriching diverse datasets.
• Model data and write efficient queries with a focus on high-performance search and analytics at scale.
• Create and manage Kibana dashboards, visualisations, and alerting systems that provide actionable insights.
• Collaborate with software development, IT operations, and security teams to diagnose and resolve Elastic Stack-related issues.
• Ensure data integrity and compliance with security standards and regulatory frameworks.
• Maintain up-to-date documentation for configurations, deployment procedures, and best practices.
• Tackle clients' most complex data ingestion and visualization problems with creative and technically sound solutions.

Required Qualifications & Experience:

• Elastic Certified and able to demonstrate two unique customer case studies from previous Elastic consulting projects.
• Minimum of 2 years' experience delivering and executing professional services as a consultant.
• Prior experience as a Software Engineer, System/Network Administrator, or DevOps Engineer.
• Strong hands-on experience with Elastic Stack in both on-premises and cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP, or OpenStack).
• Proficient in Linux environments and shell scripting.
• Solid grasp of networking principles, security protocols, containerization, serverless architectures, and DevOps practices.
• Familiarity with scripting or programming languages such as Python, JavaScript, Go, Chef, or Puppet.
• Must be eligible to apply or currently hold an Australian Security Clearance.

If you wish to apply for this position, please submit your resume by clicking the 'Apply Now' button. For further information please contact Theo Panaligan at Clicks IT Recruitment on 02 9200 4451.

At Clicks we embrace diversity, inclusion and equal opportunity.

We provide reasonable adjustments, including alternate formats to the recruitment process for individuals with disability. If you require an adjustment to be made during the recruitment process, please call 1300 254 257 or email adjustments@clicks.com.au