Senior Technical Consultant - Elastic Search
Date: 11 Apr 2025
Location: Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, AU, 2600
Company: Atturra
What you’ll be doing
As a Technical Consultant, you will provide technical expertise and hands-on support for the implementation, optimization, and maintenance of the Elastic platform. Your focus will be on strengthening the platform's health, stability, and security through activities such as detection rule development, machine learning optimization, troubleshooting, testing, and knowledge transfer. You will ensure the effective operation and ongoing improvement of the Elastic environment across search, observability, and security use cases.
Key Responsibilities:
• Deliver Elastic solutions to drive customer business value from our products
• Solution design, deployment, and integration of Elastic products and APIs, platform architecture, and capacity planning in mission-critical environments, in particular
• Configure and manage Elasticsearch clusters, including templates, indices, shards, and nodes.
• Monitor Elasticsearch performance metrics and optimize configurations for scalability and efficiency.
• Implement and maintain Logstash pipelines for data ingestion, transformation, and enrichment.
• Data modelling, query development, and optimisation, cluster tuning, and scaling with a focus on fast search and analytics at scale
• Set up and manage Kibana dashboards, visualizations, and alerts to provide actionable insights.
• Collaborate with the development and IT operations teams to troubleshoot and resolve issues related to Elastic Stack components.
• Ensure data integrity, security, and compliance with best practices and regulatory requirements.
• Develop and maintain documentation related to Elastic Stack configurations, processes, and procedures.
• Solving our customers’ most challenging data problems
What will make you successful in this role?
• Must have or be eligible for an Australian Security Clearance
• Must hold a current Elastic Certification
• Must have a minimum of two (2) years’ experience working as a consultant, working to deliver and execute on professional services engagements
• Must have two (2) unique customer case studies specific to completed Elastic consulting projects. Experience as a Software Engineer, System/Network Administrator, or DevOps Engineer
• Hands-on experience in on-prem systems and/or public/private cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, GCP, OpenStack
• Hands-on experience in Linux
• Good understanding of networking, security, containerization, serverless, DevOps in distributed system landscapes, and infrastructure automation knowledge.
• Experience utilising programming or scripting languages in a corporate environment like Python, JavaScript, Go or Chef/Puppet, etc.
• Understanding of databases
• Strong customer advocacy, relationship-building, and communications skills
• Excel at working directly with customers to gather, prioritise, plan, and execute solutions to customer business requirements as it relates to our technologies
• Understanding and passion for open-source technology and knowledge and proficiency in at least one programming language
• Hands-on experience with Elasticsearch and/or Lucene
• Knowledge of information retrieval and/or analytics domain
Why is this an exciting opportunity?
Atturra is one of the fastest growing ASX-listed advisory and IT solutions companies in Australia, giving you a strong foundation to fulfil your career ambitions.
We currently have 1100+ professionals working across Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and Hong Kong who are using innovation to lead the way.
This is your chance to make an impact. Come and join our talented and creative team of change makers to redefine the future through technology.
The Data & Integration business unit helps clients unlock the full potential of data by integrating systems and applications, enabling digital transformation through our comprehensive on-premises, hybrid, and cloud integration solutions. We specialise in Boomi, Smartsheet, and OpenText.
What our people say:
“We are working towards a very bright future.”
“It's a company with vision and a promising future.”
Why you’ll love working here
Culture of possibility
At Atturra we embrace innovation within our teams, fostering an environment of possibility and growth. We believe in creating a supportive and welcoming culture, where everyone is encouraged to achieve success through collaboration, continuous learning, and smart work practices.
A strong set of company values
Our culture is reflected by our employees who demonstrate camaraderie, innovation, dedication, respect and excellence in everything they do. These traits have become integral to the way we do business and are the values we strive for.
Valuable employee benefits
• Employee benefits, recognition, and wellbeing platform
• Career growth via succession planning, internal promotions, and mentorship opportunities
• Ongoing investment in professional development through industry and technology certifications, and study assistance
• Mental health support through our Employee Assistance Program
• Support for family and caring responsibilities, including paid parental leave
• Employee referral program, with monetary incentives offered
Commitment to supporting Australia’s veterans
Atturra is proud to be recognised as a Veteran Friendly Employer by the Department of Veterans Affairs’ Veteran Employment Commitment (VEC) and is committed to supporting Australia’s veteran community. We aim to enhance the employment experience for veterans by improving recruitment, support, retention, and leadership opportunities to ensure they have a meaningful and impactful career with us.
What our people say:
“Atturra has a great working environment and management are very supportive of their staff. We celebrate success and have fun while working hard.”
How to apply
Careers | Atturra
https://atturra.com/au-en/careers
Recruitment Agencies/Headhunters:
We got this covered. Our Talent Acquisition team is working on our hiring demands and will reach out should we need extra support. Atturra only accepts referrals from agencies on our official supplier list via Agency Portal. Agencies are required to go through our procurement process, have an approved fee agreement, and be invited to participate in hiring for a job opening by the Atturra Talent Acquisition team. Any profiles or referrals submitted outside of this process will be deemed invalid. We request that you do not contact Atturra employees outside of the Talent Acquisition team for any hiring-related queries. To become an official supplier, send an expression of interest via talentacquisition@atturra.com.
Atturra is committed to addressing the digital skills gap and advocating for diversity and inclusion. We encourage applications from all individuals, regardless of Veteran or service status, gender, LGBTQI+ identity, ethnicity, religion, physical ability, or age.