Observability Lead Elastic (ELK) Stack

Job Description

We are seeking a highly experienced and visionary Observability Lead to spearhead our monitoring and infrastructure management initiatives. This senior role requires deep expertise in the Elastic Stack and a comprehensive understanding of modern distributed system telemetry.

The successful candidate will drive the strategy and implementation of robust observability solutions, ensuring system reliability, performance, and insightful data visualization.

Key Requirements

• Educational Background: Possession of a Bachelor s or Master s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology (IT), or a closely related technical field.

• Domain Expertise: A minimum of 8+ years of professional experience dedicated to observability, system monitoring, or infrastructure management practices.

• Elastic Stack Mastery: 3+ years of direct, hands-on experience specifically managing and engineering solutions using the full Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash/Beats, Elastic APM, and Fleet/Elastic Agent).

• Telemetry Fundamentals: Strong, practical understanding of fundamental observability concepts, including the collection and analysis of logs, metrics, traces, and synthetic monitoring.

• Tracing & Instrumentation: Expertise in implementing OpenTelemetry, configuring distributed tracing, and carrying out telemetry instrumentation within complex microservice environments.

• Tooling Experience: Proven experience working with complementary modern monitoring and containerization tools such as Kubernetes, Docker, Prometheus, and Grafana.

• Configuration Proficiency: Demonstrated proficiency in managing system configurations using YAML-based configurations.

• Data Presentation: Extensive experience in performance optimization, advanced data visualization, and sophisticated dashboarding using Kibana.