ELK Administrator

  • Australia
  • Melbourne
  • Permanent
  • AU$120000 - AU$130000 per annum

ELK Administrator

Location: Melbourne or Sydney
Salary: $120,000 – $130,000 including super
Security Clearance: Active Baseline required

We are looking for an experienced ELK Administrator / Elastic Stack Engineer to support and enhance enterprise-scale monitoring, logging and observability environments.

This is a hands-on technical role focused on maintaining the stability, performance and security of Elastic Stack platforms, while supporting upgrades, troubleshooting and ongoing improvements.

Key Responsibilities

  • Administer and maintain enterprise ELK environments across production and non-production systems.
  • Support Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Beats and associated integrations.
  • Design and implement monitoring, logging and observability solutions.
  • Lead or support platform upgrades, migrations and enhancements.
  • Troubleshoot performance, availability and technical issues.
  • Develop scalable alerting, reporting and monitoring capabilities.
  • Work closely with engineering, operations and platform teams.
  • Provide support across BAU environments, including incident resolution and after-hours activities where required.

About You

  • Strong hands-on experience as an ELK Administrator, Elastic Stack Engineer or similar.
  • Recent enterprise experience with Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana.
  • Experience with ELK installations, configuration, upgrades and migrations.
  • Strong knowledge of monitoring, alerting, performance tuning and troubleshooting.
  • Experience developing observability and logging solutions.
  • Comfortable supporting enterprise production environments.
  • Australian Citizen with an active Baseline security clearance.

This would suit someone who enjoys working in complex enterprise environments and wants a hands-on role across ELK administration, observability and platform improvement.

Apply now or contact Luther Borgas at luther.borgas@outbacktalent.com

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