Beschreibung
Role: Elastic Stack Support EngineerStart Date: As soon as possible
Location: Dusseldorf (Remote work till Pandemic)
Duration of Contract: 6 months
Type of Contract: Freelance
Language Requirement: English only (German is good to have)
Tasks
Design, develop, implement new functionalities or tooling on ELK clusters
• Active Monitoring of the clustersand proactive fixing of problems
• Designs Elasticsearch indices to efficiently store data currently optimizing both performance and the need for growth
• Configures Logstash, FileBeats, MetricsBeats and possibly other ELK Stack components to collect and the store the data necessary to meet requirements efficiently
• Develop testing scenarios for new software installation/upgrades/migrations. Automate the rollout to all environments using Puppet or custom scripts
• Consultancy and recommendations - Verify the clusters' performance & fine tune. Propose changes and validate with the customer then implement. Offer consultancy, document best practices
• Maintain or refactor puppet modules, classes, manifest or resources etc.
• Maintain or create Ansible playbooks.
• Conduct proof of concepts and experimentation on new ideas, technologies and features.
• Incident / problem / change management
• Monitoring and logging - Proactively monitor system health and performance. Detect, catch and remediate problems. Create alerting and properly react when triggered and evaluate of reports/log
• Capacity management - Assess the sizing of the clusters in terms of data growing trends. Expand the clusters if necessary. Also check the available quota
• Backup & restoration
• Continuous Deployment - Maintenance and continuous improvement of service offering, configuration solution and tools as well as discovery of new technologies
Skills
• Strong experience (8+ years) in implementing & managing ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana / Grafana)
• Shall have prior experience in cluster provisioning & management, upgrades, backup/restore, patch management, performance tuning etc.
• Proficient with Elastic Stack components, especially Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana required.
• Proficient with Ansible, Docker , Kubernetes based deployment and administration
• Must be proficient with Python
• Excellent knowledge in both Windows and Linux operating systems
• Shall be well versed with Linux admin tasks, automation using Puppet, Jenkins etc.
• Shall be able to provide consulting & best practices to application teams for consuming ELK services
• Adaptability to working with multiple teams on projects with varying degrees of flexibility/rigidity at different points in the development cycle
• Previous experience working in an environment with formally structured IT Operational processes: work request ticket management, incident management, change management, and problem management
• Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, Ruby, Perl, and/or Bash
• Experience working with Git and supporting CI/CD pipelines
• Ability to develop and maintain positive working relationships
• Ability to work in a team environment and independently as needed
• Ability to adapt to change and work well under pressure
• Ability to multitask and manage numerous projects
• Ability to take on internal operational initiatives as a prime or lead
• Excellent communication, organizational, interpersonal, problem solving, and documentation skills
• Experience running and supporting a global 24x7 internet based service or product is considered an asset