SIEM Engineer (Elastic)

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Watford, UK
8 days ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
5 years minimum
Compensation
£90,000.0
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Active Directory Linux Elasticsearch Intrusion Detection and Prevention JSON Lightweight Directory Access Protocols (LDAP) Windows Servers Performance Tuning Public Key Infrastructure Windows PowerShell Logstash Security Information and Event Management
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YAML Transport Layer Security Data Ingestion Software Troubleshooting Kibana Restful APIs Splunk Vmware

Job description

As an Elastic Stack SME, you will design, implement, optimise and manage enterprise Elastic Stack platforms across a secure on-premises estate. You will take technical ownership of Elasticsearch clusters, Logstash, Kibana, Beats, Elastic Agent and Fleet, while delivering solutions across SIEM, observability, threat detection and high-volume data ingestion.

You will design highly available and resilient platforms, optimise cluster performance, implement security controls and automation, and provide senior-level technical support. You will also produce HLDs, LLDs, SOPs, build guides, DR plans and operational documentation.

Requirements

  • 5+ years administering enterprise on-premises Elastic Stack environments
  • Strong Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, Beats, Elastic Agent and Fleet experience
  • Elastic Security (SIEM) and Elastic Observability
  • Experience supporting large, highly available Elasticsearch clusters
  • Splunk experience
  • Linux and Windows Server
  • PowerShell, REST APIs, JSON and YAML
  • TLS, LDAP, Active Directory and PKI
  • Strong troubleshooting, performance optimisation and automation skills
  • Experience with VMware and enterprise networking

Benefits & conditions

  • Car allowance
  • 25 days holiday + bank holidays and your birthday off
  • Matched contributory pension up to 6%
  • Single private medical cover
  • 4 x life insurance
  • 3% flexible benefit allowance

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