The Company: Pacific Gas & Electric (https://www.pge.com/)

Job Title: IT Product Specialist, Expert

Department: Information Technology

Work Type: Remote/Hybrid (~2x/week on-site depending on location)

Position Summary

We are seeking an experienced ELK Architect/Elastic Search Architect to join our team. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in ELK administration, data ingestion, and enrichment from various sources, as well as designing and implementing efficient log shipping processes. This role will involve collaborating with development and operations teams to enhance logging capabilities and ensure seamless integration between various Elastic Stack components.

Job Responsibilities:

• Design and implement efficient log shipping and data ingestion processes.
• Collaborate with development and operations teams to enhance logging capabilities.
• Implement and configure components of the Elastic Stack, including Filebeat, Metricsbeat, Winlogbeat, Logstash, and Kibana.
• Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for Elastic Stack configurations and processes.
• Advance Kibana dashboards and visualizations modeling and deployment.
• Create and manage Elasticsearch Clusters on premise, including configuration parameters, indexing, search, and query performance tuning, RBAC security governance, and administration.
• Hands-on scripting & programming in Python, Ansible, bash, data parsing (regex), etc.
• Experience with Security Hardening & Vulnerability/Compliance, OS patching, SSL/SSO/LDAP.
• Understanding of HA design, cross-site replication, local and global load balancers, etc.
• Data ingestion & enrichment from various sources, webhooks, and REST APIs with JSON/YAML/XML payloads & testing using POSTMAN, etc.
• CI/CD - Deployment pipeline experience (Ansible, GIT).
• Strong knowledge of performance monitoring, metrics, capacity planning, and management.
• Ability to apply a systematic & creative approach to solve problems, out-of-the-box thinking with a sense of ownership and focus.
• Experience with application onboarding - capturing requirements, understanding data sources, architecture diagrams, application relationships, etc.
• Influencing other teams and engineering groups in adopting logging best practices.
• Effective communication skills with the ability to articulate technical details to different audiences.
• Familiarity with Confluence and JIRA.

• Strong expertise in ELK Administration, encompassing extensive experience.
• Demonstrated proficiency in data ingestion and enrichment from diverse sources, including webhooks and REST APIs, managing JSON/YAML/XML payloads, and conducting testing using tools like POSTMAN.
• Proven ability to design and deploy efficient log shipping and data ingestion processes, ensuring optimal performance and reliability.

• Proficiency with Grafana.
• Familiarity with Open Telemetry Monitoring and logging solutions.
• Experience working with Prometheus.
• Knowledge of Splunk Administration.