Elastic Stack Engineer

Remote, South Africa

Job Description: Elastic Stack Engineer

(Search & Observability)

Role Overview

As an Elastic / Observability & Security Platform Engineer, you will lead the design,

implementation, monitoring and continuous improvement of our Elastic-based observability and security stack. You will take ownership of detection rules, watchers, ML-models, health monitoring of data streams, alerting frameworks, and tracking of data pipeline latency/integration times. You will work closely with data engineers, security operations, platform engineering, and business-units to ensure robust real-time monitoring, anomaly detection, alerting, and data integration observability.

Key Responsibilities

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Architect, deploy, configure and optimise the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana,

Beats, Logstash, Elastic Machine Learning, Elastic Watcher/Alerting).

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Develop and maintain JSON-based configuration files, logic and pipelines for

detection rules, watchers and alerting states.

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Design, build and operationalise machine-learning jobs within Elastic ML (e.g.,

anomaly detection, forecasting, classification) for observability/security use-cases.

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Monitor, maintain and improve the health and...