ELK Platform Engineer

ELK Platform Engineer
Lisboa
Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

We are HCLTech, one of the
- growing large tech companies in the world and home to 222, 000+ people across 60 countries, supercharging progress through
- leading capabilities centered around Digital, Engineering and Cloud. The driving force behind that work, our people, are diverse, creative, and passionate, raising the bar for excellence on a regular basis. We, in turn, work hard to bring out the best in them as we strive to help them find their spark and become the best version of themselves that they can be.

If all this sounds like an environment you’ll thrive in, then you’re in the right place. Join us on our journey to advancing the technological world through innovation and creativity.

Your Role & Responsibilities

You will manage and scale the ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) on Azure, build log ingestion pipelines, and implement Open Telemetry & Dynatrace for advanced monitoring.

Key Responsibilities:

• ELK Platform Delivery & Operations
• Manage
  -
  - end delivery and ongoing operations of the ELK platform.
• Configure and administer ELK components (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana).
• Develop log collection, ingestion, and indexation scripts.
• Implement alerting and observability features within ELK.
• Monitoring Solutions
• Contribute to monitoring solution studies and analyses.
• Support Open Telemetry implementation for enhanced observability.
• Collaborate on onboarding strategies for CUSTOMER entities and internal products.
• Technical Development
• Develop new log ingestion pipelines using Logstash and File beat.
• Manage log storage and indexation within Elasticsearch.
• Create and maintain dashboards in Kibana.
• Deploy and scale new features on the ELK platform.

Deliverables

• Monitoring platform onboarding strategy.
• ELK platform configuration and setup.
• Onboarding scripts for platform integration.
• End-to-end observability platform study.
• Breakdown of development tasks with time estimates.

Qualifications & Experience

Qualification Required:

• 3–5 years of
  - on experience in ELK development, implementation, and operations.
• Strong knowledge of Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana configuration and administration.
• Experience with log ingestion pipelines (Logstash, File beat).
• Familiarity with Open Telemetry for observability.
• Expertise in Dynatrace Grail.
• Proficiency in Linux system administration.
• Experience with Azure cloud environment and Infrastructure-as-Code tools (Terraform).
• Knowledge of configuration management tools (Puppet) and version control (Git).

Required Technical and Professional Expertise:

• Platform: ELK stack deployed within Azure.
• Tools: Terraform, Puppet, Git for deployment, automation, and version control.
• OS: Linux system administration expertise required.

Nice-to-Have:

• Strong analytical and
  - solving skills.
• Ability to work in a collaborative, agile environment.
• Excellent communication skills for
  - team coordination.

Equality & Opportunity for All

Representing 165 nationalities across the globe, we pride ourselves on being an equal opportunity employer, committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees regardless of race, religion, sex, color, age, national origin, pregnancy, sexual orientation, physical disability or genetic information, military or veteran status, or any other protected classification, in accordance with federal, state, and/or local law.

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