Overview
Remote
$$50/hr.
Contract - W2
Contract - Long-term contract
Skills
Logstash
Kibana
Elasticsearch
Job Details
Role : ELK Developer (Elasticsearch, Logstash, & Kibana)
Location: Remote
Job Summary
We are looking for a skilled ELK Developer with strong hands-on experience in managing and developing ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) solutions. The ideal candidate should possess solid expertise in AWS, Unix/Linux administration, and end-to-end observability pipeline management. will play a key role in designing, developing, and maintaining log analytics and monitoring solutions for our infrastructure and applications.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, configure, and maintain ELK stack components for scalable log aggregation and visualization.
- Administer Elasticsearch clusters, ensuring high availability, scalability, and performance tuning.
- Build and optimize Logstash pipelines with custom filters and grok patterns.
- Develop and maintain Kibana dashboards tailored to business and operational needs.
- Perform Unix/Linux system administration tasks as needed for platform support.
- Troubleshoot and debug issues across the ELK stack and integrations.
- Collaborate with development, DevOps, and security teams to deliver reliable observability solutions.
- Maintain documentation and operational runbooks for ELK-related workflows.
Required Skills:
- Strong hands-on expertise with ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)
- Deep knowledge of Elasticsearch indexing, querying, sharding, replication, and cluster management
- Experience with Logstash filters, input/output plugins, and custom parsing using grok
- Strong knowledge of Kibana visualization and dashboard creation
- Solid experience in Unix/Linux administration and shell scripting, python
- Excellent debugging and problem-solving skills
- Strong verbal and written communication skills for working across teams
- Experience with Beats (Filebeat, Metricbeat)
- Familiarity with containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes, podman)
- Exposure to security logging, threat detection, or SIEM tools
- Knowledge of performance tuning for large-scale Elasticsearch clusters
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