Overview
About Business Unit:
A consolidated team of database technology professionals, we deliver expert insights across all major database engines and Big Data solutions to support Epsilon products and platforms. The team has a one-of-a-kind alignment that combines a horizontal organizational structure with vertically aligned sub-groups dedicated to our clients. By adhering to consistent standards and methodologies, the team ensures operational excellence and has close ties with product teams at Oracle, IBM, Cloudera, Amazon and Microsoft.
Overview:
We are seeking an
experienced ELK Stack Administrator to manage, maintain, and optimize our
Elasticsearch clusters in production environments.
The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in
Elasticsearch, Kibana, and Logstash administration, along with solid experience in
Linux systems, automation tools, and monitoring/observability platforms.
This role focuses on
cluster administration, deployment, performance tuning, scaling, and monitoring, rather than application development.
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Responsibilities
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Install, configure, and administer
Elasticsearch, Kibana, and Logstash (ELK Stack) in production environments.
- Manage
Elasticsearch clusters, including:
- Index lifecycle management
- Shard allocation and optimization
- Replication management
- Backups and restores
- Perform
cluster scaling, performance tuning, and troubleshooting.
- Configure and maintain
Logstash pipelines and data ingestion workflows.
- Create and maintain
Kibana dashboards and monitoring visualizations.
- Implement and support
Observability, Monitoring, and SIEM use cases.
- Manage
security configurations, including:
- Roles and users
- TLS encryption
- RBAC policies
- Perform
stack upgrades, patching, and regular health checks.
- Collaborate with
DevOps, Infrastructure, and Monitoring teams.
- Ensure
high availability and disaster recovery readiness.
Use
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation tools to manage deployments and configurations.
Qualifications
Required Skills:
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5+ years of hands-on experience administering
Elasticsearch, Kibana, and Logstash.
- Strong understanding of:
- Elasticsearch
cluster architecture
- Index management and
shard optimization
- Query performance tuning
- Snapshot and restore processes
- Experience with
Linux system administration (RHEL / Ubuntu).
- Experience with
Infrastructure as Code and automation tools:
- Experience with
version control systems:
- Knowledge of
Monitoring and Observability concepts.
- Experience handling
production incidents and troubleshooting.
- Basic
scripting skills (Shell or Python preferred).
- Understanding of
SIEM and APM concepts.
Good to Have:
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Experience with
Elastic Stack X-Pack features.
- Experience integrating
ELK with cloud platforms (AWS / Azure / GCP).
- Knowledge of
Elastic concepts and Beats, such as:
- Filebeat
- Metricbeat
- Elastic Serverless forwarder
- APM servers
- Elastic Agent
- Elastic Fleet architecture
- Exposure to
containerized environments:
Additional Information
Epsilon is a global data, technology and services company that powers the marketing and advertising ecosystem. For decades, we've provided marketers from the world's leading brands the data, technology and services they need to engage consumers with 1 View, 1 Vision and 1 Voice. 1 View of their universe of potential buyers. 1 Vision for engaging each individual. And 1 Voice to harmonize engagement across paid, owned and earned channels.
Epsilon's comprehensive portfolio of capabilities across our suite of digital media, messaging and loyalty solutions bridge the divide between marketing and advertising technology. We process 400+ billion consumer actions each day using advanced AI and hold many patents of proprietary technology, including real-time modeling languages and consumer privacy advancements. Thanks to the work of every employee, Epsilon has been consistently recognized as industry-leading by Forrester, Adweek and the MRC. Epsilon is a global company with more than 9,000 employees around the world.
Our pillars aren't just words. They're how we show up every day.
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People centricity: We focus on employee well-being in an environment where colleagues truly care about each other.
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Collaboration: We work together, support one another, and collectively achieve goals.
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Growth: There are endless opportunities for growth through learning, development and career advancement.
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Innovation: We drive progress through cutting-edge solutions and forward-thinking approaches.
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Flexibility: We've created a balance between work and personal life, and we encourage adaptability to solve problems creatively.
Our values guide us to create value for our clients, our people and consumers.
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Act with integrity
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Work together to win together
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Innovate with purpose
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Respect all voices
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Empower with accountability
These pillars and values are our foundation-shaping our culture, guiding our decisions, and uniting us in common purpose.
Epsilon is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Epsilon is committed to promoting diversity, inclusion, and equal employment opportunities by using reasonable efforts to attract, recruit, engage and retain qualified individuals of all ethnicities and backgrounds, including, but not limited to, women, people of color, LGBTQ individuals, people with disabilities and any other underrepresented groups, traits or characteristics.
