NeST Digital
Website:
nestdigital.com
Job details:
Purpose Of Job
The ELK Engineer will support the onboarding of applications to the ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash,
Kibana) platform across multiple environments (AWS, Azure, and Rancher On-Prem).
This role focuses on onboarding applications logs into ELK including pre-requisite, agent installation,
log ingestion validation, Logstash filters, dashboard, alerts, troubleshooting, and working with
application teams to ensure a smooth ELK onboarding.
Academics
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent.
Job Knowledge, Skills & Experience
- Overall 2 to 5 years of experience working within a large enterprise consisting of large and
diverse teams.
- The candidate will work closely with senior ELK engineers, DevOps, infrastructure, cloud,
and security teams.
- Assist in onboarding applications to the ELK platform in UAT & PROD environments.
- Coordinate with application owners for collecting log sources, formats, endpoints, and
ingestion requirements.
- Support log agent installation (Filebeat, Elastic agents).
- Validate log ingestion, pipelines, mappings, and dashboards.
Essential Duties And Responsibilities
- Configure Beats and elastic agents for log forwarding.
- Validate connectivity (firewalls, DNS, ports, certificates).
- Check agents logs for errors.
- Identify ingestion failures, mapping issues, or pipeline errors.
- Configure logstash filters
- Creating of Kibana dashboards and alerts.
- Update SOPs, runbooks, and troubleshooting guides.
- Record common onboarding issues and resolutions.
Technical Skills
- Hands-on exp on ELK stack components (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana).
- Hands on exp on installing beat and elastic agents
- Good understanding of Linux commands.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS/Azure) – Good to have
- Basic networking (ports, protocols, connectivity testing).
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