Consultant ( ICT Security Engineer)

Summary:

We are seeking a Consultant with experience in Observability/ Infrastructure/Platform Engineering / Security Engineer with strong ELK Stack, Kafka and Linux experience to manage, tune, and automate production-grade data pipelines for a cybersecurity logging platform. The role requires someone hands-on with Python/Bash scripting and infrastructure automation to ensure high-volume log ingestion, parsing, and cluster reliability.

Job Responsibilities:

• Build, configure, and optimize production ELK pipelines—including Logstash parsing (Grok/Regex), Elasticsearch cluster tuning, and Index Lifecycle Management (ILM).
• Manage high-volume Kafka brokers, topics, partitions, and event-streaming pipelines for real-time cybersecurity log ingestion.
• Provide hands-on Linux system administration (RHEL/Ubuntu) across virtual and physical environments to maintain high platform availability.
• Automate deployments, API integrations, and pipeline operations using Python, Bash, and Ansible/CI/CD tools.
• Lead L2/L3 troubleshooting, root cause analysis (RCA), snapshot/restore backups, and change management (MOPs) for the logging platform.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, or a related discipline
• Minimum 4-5 years of relevant experience in ELK. Over all experience not more than 7 years.
• Must have 4 years of experience focused on large scale Elastic Stack design, deployment and support
• Production grade experience with the Elastic stack – ingestion, indexing, monitoring and analytics is mandatory
• Strong hands on experience with Kafka is required
• Must have expertise in Linux administration (RHEL/Ubuntu)
• Mandatory to have scripting/programming experience in any one of languages like Python / Bash (minimum 2 years) or any similar languages
• Automation/orchestration – Ansible (or equivalent) and CI/CD pipelines is required
• Proven production support background; comfortable with both virtual and physical environments.
• Autonomous/Good command on these skills - Linux(OS), Programming / Coding (DevOps)
• Required to manage platform and code to maintain/automate.

Interested candidates may apply through the application system or send it to [email protected]. Shortlisted candidates will be notified.

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