ELK Stack Administrator

Role Summary

• The Lead Platform Engineer – ELK Stack Administration serves as a senior technical contributor and subject-matter expert for the Elastic Stack, including Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, and related data-ingestion and observability technologies.
• The primary focus of this role is the administration, reliability, performance, security, scalability, and ongoing improvement of Elastic environments across cloud and on-premises infrastructure.
• The engineer will design, deploy, monitor, troubleshoot, automate, and support highly available Elastic platforms used for centralized logging, search, metrics analytics, observability, and data-driven applications.
• In addition to the core ELK Stack responsibilities, this role will assist with broader platform engineering, DevOps, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, automation, monitoring, and operational support activities as business and team needs require.
• The successful candidate will work closely with application development, architecture, security, cloud, networking, observability, and operations teams in an Agile delivery environment.

Key Responsibilities

• ELK Stack Administration and Operations
• Platform Design and Engineering
• Performance, Reliability, and Capacity Management
• Automation and DevOps Integration
• Observability and Operational Excellence
• Technical Leadership and Collaboration
• Mentorship and Continuous Improvement

Qualifications

Required

Preferred

Additional Information

• Primary skill emphasis: Elasticsearch and ELK Stack administration.
• The employee may assist with additional platform engineering, DevOps, automation, cloud, infrastructure, and operational duties based on business needs.
• Hybrid/Onsite Requirement: 3 days per week
• Candidates must live within 50 miles of the OneMain corporate office in Evansville, IN. We will also consider candidates that live within 50 miles of OneMain corporate offices in Baltimore, MD; Wilmington, DE; Charlotte, NC; Irving, TX.  
• The position may begin as a contract engagement with the potential for extension or conversion to full-time employment. Candidates must live within 50 miles of locations mentioned above to be considered for FTE conversion.