ELK Engineer

Job Title : Senior Enterprise Logging Architect & Systems Engineer

Job Location : Hilliard-OH-USA

Description:

Hybrid: 2 days onsite and 3 days remote.

Job Title: Logging Enablement - Hands-on Application Architect / Principal Engineer

Description:

Our Global Technology Solutions group is looking for a Senior Enterprise Logging Architect & Systems Engineer to lead Design and Architecture of our Enterprise Logging Platform - Elastic (ELK) implementation. by collaborating with portfolio teams across all LOB’s The ideal candidate will collaborate with Infrastructure engineers, ELK Cluster Admin’s, Application Developers and SRE teams across all LOB’s to implement ELK logging platform to incorporate best logging practices and engineering to strengthen the enterprise logging standards to achieve performance, cost efficiency, improve observability, and operational support. Advanced knowledge of system architecture, network, Centralized Logging platforms (ELK), and operational stability will help transform how the teams operate today.

Responsibilities

• As part of Elastic Community of Practice (ECoP) you will design and build a common logging framework and best practices to be used at enterprise level by platform, SRE and Application teams.

• Partner with other platforms and application architects to define a logging product strategy, architecture, and design.

• Create and document reference architectures, transitional architectures, and best practices.

• Partner with domain architects and Delivery teams to design, implement, and support to build solutions based on the Target Reference Architecture.

• Be able to deep dive into reported implementation issues for root cause analysis to determine the architecture impact and required changes to address/resolve the issues effectively.

• Review Designs/Architectures and propose optimization opportunities to meet certain performance and response time SLAs.

• Develop and maintain documentation concerning IT’s technical/product architecture.

• The ability to communicate effectively at all levels, especially with SVP level executives

• The ability to drive change from a technical implementation perspective

You'll need to have the following:

• 5+ years of strong Hands-on experience with Enterprise level Elastic Stack of tools(Elastic Search, Logstash & Kibana) that monitor and manage critical applications and infrastructure running on on-premise and cloud

• 8+ years of experience in defining and implementing different Logging Architectures at enterprise level

• 8+ 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.

• Strong knowledge of Systems Administration in Linux(RHEL/CentOS) and experience in troubleshooting applications running on these systems

• 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.

• Understanding of hardware 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.

• 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

Even better if you have the following:

• CI/CD - Deployment pipeline experience (Ansible, GIT)

• Experience with Security Hardening & Vulnerability/Compliance, OS patching, SSL/SSO/LDAP

• Strong experience building cloud-native microservices-based web applications that are scalable, available, and highly performant.

• Familiarity with Confluence and JIRA