Elastic Observability Architect

Role:                   Elastic Observability Architect
Location:             Chicago, IL / Remote
Type:                   Full-time role with TCS (TATA Consultancy Services)

Job Description

·       Architect, configure, and manage the ELK Stack to support logging, monitoring, and observability needs across the enterprise.

·       Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements and design dashboards, alerts, and reports for various stakeholders.

·       Optimize and troubleshoot ELK performance, including tuning Elasticsearch for efficient storage and retrieval of large datasets.

·       Develop and implement data pipelines with Logstash and other ingestion tools, ensuring reliable data flow from diverse data sources.

·       Enable advanced analytics and data visualizations in Kibana to provide actionable insights for IT operations.

·       Implement security, access controls, and best practices within the ELK environment.

·       Train and mentor team members on ELK best practices and provide technical support as needed.

·       Elasticsearch / Elastic Stack (Expert level)

·       - Distributed Cluster Design & Architecture

·       - Indexing, Sharding & Query DSL (deep expertise)

·       - Performance Tuning & Optimization

·       - Large-scale data handling (logs, metrics, search)

·       - High Availability (HA) & Disaster Recovery (DR)

·       - Index Lifecycle Management (ILM) & Data Streams

·       - Troubleshooting & Production Support (cluster, latency issues)

·       - System Design & Architecture ownership

·       - Leadership (technical guidance, design reviews, mentoring)

·       Logstash, Beats, Kafka or similar ingestion tools

·       - Kibana dashboards and monitoring

·       - Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/Google Cloud Platform)

·       - Docker and Kubernetes

·       - CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/Ansible)

·       - Security (RBAC, TLS)

·       - Programming/scripting (Python/Java)

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