RE: ELK Stack Engineer @ Sunrise, FL/Phoenix, AZ/Salt Lake City, UT (Onsite)
vidyasagar kotte
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Position: ELK Stack Engineer
Location: Sunrise, FL/Phoenix, AZ/Salt Lake City, UT (Onsite)
Duration: 12+ Months
Client: Amex
Exp: 12+ Year
Visa: H1B
Job Description:
Must: Skills: ELK Stack (Elastic Search, Logstash, Kibana), Python, Grafana, API, Splunk
1. Core Technical Skills
Key Skills (In order)
1. OpenSearch / ELK / Elasticsearch
2. Python
3. Grafana
4. Splunk
· Strong understanding of system availability, reliability, and performance metrics.
· Ability to interpret and work with time-series data, logs, and event-driven datasets.
· Familiarity with REST APIs, JSON data structures, and basic HTTP-based data retrieval.
2. Monitoring & Observability Tools Grafana
· Ability to build interactive dashboards, panels, and visualizations.
· Experience configuring data sources, variables, and templating.
· Understanding of Grafana's query editors (PromQL, OpenSearch DSL inside Grafana, etc.).
OpenSearch Dashboards
· Experience building dashboards, visualizations, and saved queries in OpenSearch.
· Ability to navigate OpenSearch indices, mappings, and data structures.
Splunk
· Proficiency with Splunk Search Processing Language (SPL).
· Ability to build dashboards and create drill-downs.
3. Data Querying & Analysis
· Ability to write OpenSearch Query DSL to retrieve, filter, and aggregate data.
· Ability to write complex Splunk SPL queries with pipes, stats, eval, regex, and time functions.
· Experience writing aggregations (e.g., terms, date histogram, sum, avg, percentiles).
· Ability to troubleshoot data anomalies, missing fields, or inconsistent indexing patterns.
4. Alerting & Threshold Monitoring
· Ability to create and configure alerts in:
· Grafana Alerting
· Splunk Alerts
· OpenSearch Alerting / Anomaly Detection
· Understanding of:
· Threshold-based alerting
· Time-windowed queries
· Notification channels (email, webhook, PagerDuty, Slack, etc.)
· Experience tuning alerts to avoid noise (e.g., use of cool-down periods, aggregation windows).
5. Bonus / Preferred Skills Python Development
· Ability to write Python scripts for data extraction, transformation, and automation.
· Familiarity with:
· requests for API calls
· OpenSearch or Elasticsearch libraries
· Working with JSON responses and pandas data frames
· Experience automating monitoring/reporting workflows.
Airflow
· Experience creating and maintaining Airflow DAGs.
· Understanding of Airflow components:
· Operators
· Tasks
· Scheduling
· Dependencies
· Ability to build pipelines that extract data from OpenSearch or other observability platforms.
6. Soft Skills & Work Practices
· Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.
· Ability to document dashboards, alert logic, and query definitions.
· Ability to collaborate with SRE, DevOps, and platform engineering teams.
Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with multiple tools and data sources.
Thanks & Regards
Vidyasagar K
Sr Technical Recruiter
Rohatech LLC.
2550 W Union Hills Dr, Suite 350, Phoenix, AZ 85027
Email - vsa...@rohatech.com
Mobile:- 602-666-8288
