ELK Stack Lead

ELK Stack Team Lead

Required Experience

• 5+ years of hands-on experience with ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) in large-scale, multi-client environments.

• Minimum 2+ years of experience as Team Lead / Technical Lead managing ELK implementations.

• Experience leading and mentoring a team of engineers (task allocation, technical guidance, performance monitoring).

• Proven expertise onboarding and normalizing logs from a wide range of infrastructure devices (network, storage, server).

• Deep understanding of log formats (syslog, SNMP, vendor-specific), device management protocols, and log forwarding best practices.

• Experience designing and optimizing Logstash pipelines for high-throughput environments.

• Strong scripting skills for automation (Shell, Python).

• Familiarity with ITSM integration (ServiceNow), including automated alert-to-incident workflows.

• Proficient in version control using Git.

• Experience with security and compliance requirements for infrastructure log management.

• Ability to coordinate with stakeholders (Network, Security, Infrastructure teams) and drive project delivery.

Technical Skills

• Infrastructure Devices
• Network (Cisco, Juniper, etc.), Storage (EMC, NetApp, HPE), Servers (Linux, Windows, VMware)
• Log Management
• Logstash pipeline design, syslog/SNMP integration, log parsing and enrichment
• ELK Stack
• Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Elastic Agents, Beats
• Automation
• Shell scripting, Python, configuration management tools
• Integration
• ServiceNow, ITSM platforms, API-based automation
• Monitoring
• Custom dashboards, alerting, health checks