Technical Consultant Job Opportunity
Are you a technical expert looking for a challenging role? We are seeking a Technical Consultant to provide technical expertise and hands-on support for the implementation, optimization, and maintenance of the Elastic platform.
Job Description:
We are looking for a skilled and experienced Technical Consultant to join our team. As a Technical Consultant, you will be responsible for providing technical expertise and hands-on support for the implementation, optimization, and maintenance of the Elastic platform. Your focus will be on strengthening the platform's health, stability, and security through activities such as detection rule development, machine learning optimization, troubleshooting, testing, and knowledge transfer.
Key Responsibilities:
* Deliver Elastic solutions to drive customer business value from our products
* Solution design, deployment, and integration of Elastic products and APIs, platform architecture, and capacity planning in mission-critical environments
* Configure and manage Elasticsearch clusters, including templates, indices, shards, and nodes
* Monitor Elasticsearch performance metrics and optimize configurations for scalability and efficiency
* Implement and maintain Logstash pipelines for data ingestion, transformation, and enrichment
* Data modelling, query development, and optimisation, cluster tuning, and scaling with a focus on fast search and analytics at scale
* Set up and manage Kibana dashboards, visualizations, and alerts to provide actionable insights
* Collaborate with the development and IT operations teams to troubleshoot and resolve issues related to Elastic Stack components
* Ensure data integrity, security, and compliance with best practices and regulatory requirements
* Develop and maintain documentation related to Elastic Stack configurations, processes, and procedures
* Solving our customers' most challenging data problems
Requirements:
To be successful in this role, you must have:
* Must have or be eligible for an Australian Security Clearance
* Must hold a current Elastic Certification
* Must have a minimum of two (2) years' experience working as a consultant, working to deliver and execute on professional services engagements
* Must have two (2) unique customer case studies specific to completed Elastic consulting projects. Experience as a Software Engineer, System/Network Administrator, or DevOps Engineer
* Hands-on experience in on-prem systems and/or public/private cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, GCP, OpenStack
* Hands-on experience in Linux
* Good understanding of networking, security, containerization, serverless, DevOps in distributed system landscapes, and infrastructure automation knowledge
* Experience utilising programming or scripting languages in a corporate environment like Python, JavaScript, Go or Chef/Puppet, etc.
* Understanding of databases
* Strong customer advocacy, relationship-building, and communications skills
* Excel at working directly with customers to gather, prioritise, plan, and execute solutions to customer business requirements as it relates to our technologies
* Understanding and passion for open-source technology and knowledge and proficiency in at least one programming language
* Hands-on experience with Elasticsearch and/or Lucene
* Knowledge of information retrieval and/or analytics domain
What we offer:
We offer a range of benefits, including:
* Employee benefits, recognition, and wellbeing platform
* Career growth via succession planning, internal promotions, and mentorship opportunities
* Ongoing investment in professional development through industry and technology certifications, and study assistance
* Mental health support through our Employee Assistance Program
* Support for family and caring responsibilities, including paid parental leave
* Employee referral program, with monetary incentives offered
Join our team:
At our company, we are committed to supporting Australia's veteran community and creating a welcoming culture for all employees.
How to apply:
Submit your application, including your resume and a cover letter outlining your relevant experience and qualifications.