Elastic Stack Engineer (Kafka & Linux)

Job Title: Elastic Stack Engineer

Location:

Singapore

Contract Duration:

12 Months (Extendable)

Start Date:

ASAP

Experience Required:

4+ years of relevant hands-on experience

Role Overview

We are looking for an experienced

Elastic Stack / DevOps Engineer

to manage, maintain, automate, and support a large-scale production platform environment.

This is a highly hands-on technical role requiring strong experience in the

Elastic Stack, Kafka, Linux administration, scripting, and automation

. The successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring the reliability, performance, scalability, and operational stability of the platform.

This role is

not suitable for SOC Analysts or monitoring-focused professionals

, as the primary focus is on platform engineering, automation, coding, and production support.

Key Responsibilities

Manage and support production-grade Elastic Stack environments, including ingestion, indexing, monitoring, analytics, and platform maintenance.

Design, develop, and implement automation solutions to improve platform reliability, operational efficiency, and scalability.

Provide hands-on administration and troubleshooting support across Linux environments, including RHEL and Ubuntu.

Manage and support Kafka environments and associated integrations.

Develop and maintain scripts and automation solutions using Python and/or Bash.

Build and maintain automation and orchestration workflows using Ansible or equivalent tools.

Support and enhance CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.

Perform production support, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and issue resolution across complex infrastructure environments.

Work across both virtual and physical infrastructure environments.

Identify opportunities to improve automation, platform stability, monitoring capabilities, and operational processes.

Take ownership of technical issues and work independently to manage priorities and deliver solutions.

Required Technical Skills

Candidates must have strong production experience across the following technologies:

Elastic Stack - Mandatory

Elasticsearch

Logstash / data ingestion

Kibana

Indexing and analytics

Monitoring and production support

Kafka - Strong hands-on experience

Linux Administration

RHEL

Ubuntu

Programming / Scripting

Python and/or Bash

Minimum 2 years of hands-on scripting or programming experience

Automation and DevOps

Ansible or equivalent automation/orchestration tools

CI/CD pipelines

Infrastructure and platform automation

Proven experience supporting and troubleshooting

production environments

, including both virtual and physical infrastructure.

Experience Requirements

Minimum

7 years of total professional experience

.

At least

4-5 years of hands-on experience

managing, designing, deploying, and supporting large-scale Elastic Stack environments.

Strong experience working in production environments with responsibility for platform stability and operational support.

Candidates should be comfortable working autonomously and taking ownership of technical deliverables.

Preferred Skills

Experience within the

banking or financial services sector

would be advantageous but is not mandatory.

Experience working within large-scale enterprise infrastructure environments.

Exposure to complex, highly available, and business-critical platforms.