Elastic Engineer

Radiant Digital delivers technology consulting and business solutions for commercial and government clients.

Our flexible delivery model allows us to provide end-to-end solution delivery, single project execution, and, or strategic resources.

CMMI Maturity Level III and ISO 9001 – 2015 certified.

Required Skills:

• 8+ years of experience in Software Design and Development
• 5+ years of experience as a Full stack Linux Systems/Elastic & Application Support Engineer - (Elastic Certified Engineer preferred)
• 5+ years of experience in Solutions and/or Application Architecture.
• 3+ years of experience in leading cross-functional teams.
• Strong architecture, design, and implementation experience with the following: Microservices architectures, Cloud-Native architectures, Event-driven architectures, APIs, Domain Driven Design, Public Cloud (AWS), Serverless, Kubernetes, Docker, DevOps, building scalable, reliable, available solutions, and Performance testing.
• Experience with leading software developers/architects
• Experience with operational readiness and Solution failure mode analysis.
• Strong knowledge of Systems Administration in Linux(RHEL/CentOS) and experience in troubleshooting applications running on these systems
• Strong Hands-on experience with Elastic Stack of tools(Elastic Search, Logstash & Kibana) that monitor and manage critical applications and infrastructure
• Securing, maintenance, optimization, documentation, and some design and build, Data Analytics & Visualization;
• Provide work breakdown and estimates for new requirements & Applying best practices for managing cluster, scaling, and capacity planning.
• Design and configuration of ETL data pipelines using Elastic Common Schema to onboard application logs and metrics;
• Configuration of index templates and data life cycle management ILM for data retention;
• Designing and implementing solutions for centralized logs, infrastructure, health metrics, and distributed tracing for different applications.
• Create Dashboards of KPIs and Fine-tune bulk load process.
• Hands-on Scripting & Programming in Python, Ansible, bash, data parsing (regex), etc.
• Good knowledge of Tomcat, MySQL, Nginx, and haproxy
• Experience with Security Hardening & Vulnerability/Compliance, OS patching, SSL/SSO/LDAP
• Understanding of HA design, cross-site replication, local and global load balancers, etc.
• Data ingestion & enrichment from various sources, webhooks, and REST APIs with JSON/YAML/XML payloads & testing POSTMAN, etc.
• CI/CD - Deployment pipeline experience (Ansible, GIT)
• Strong knowledge of performance monitoring, metrics, capacity planning, and management
• Ability to apply a systematic & creative approach to solve problems, out-of-the-box thinking with a sense of ownership and focus
• Strong skills in creating documentation - engineering runbooks, support procedures, user onboarding, and support documentation
• Experience with application onboarding - capturing requirements, understanding data sources, architecture diagrams, application relationships, etc.
• Influencing other teams and engineering groups in adopting logging best practices.
• Effective communication skills with the ability to articulate technical details to a different audience
• Building enterprise scale Architectures and building best practices for logging platforms.
• Be able to present solutions to executives at Verizon and work with multiple lines of business architects and leaders in building the solutions.
• Provide thought leadership in building enterprise logging platforms to meet current and future needs.
• Proficient in architecting and designing a Large Enterprise level cost effective and high availability Elastic logging platform (ELK) with AI/ML, Automation capabilities with monitoring and observability.
• Create and manage Elasticsearch Clusters on premise, including configuration parameters, indexing, search, and query performance tuning, RBAC security governance, and administration;
• Strong experience building cloud-native microservices-based web applications that are scalable, available, and highly performant.
• Familiarity with Confluence and JIRA