UK Central Government
Location
Hereford, Herefordshire | United Kingdom
Job description
This contract with our central government client is for a SIEM Engineer for 12 months. The role is located in Hereford and requires 100% of time onsite. A new technical role is available to provide direct engineering and administration of infrastructure monitoring to enhance the support of network and IT services. It is based on maintaining the enterprise’s Elasticsearch environments. Numerous Elasticsearch instances on separate systems parsing logs and ingesting through their pipelines to a central SIEM location to deliver data for security, IT Ops and availability. Utilising Kibana to visualise and enrich data and Logstash to ingest and forward data to a central air-gapped instance. Beyond this the identification of opportunities to create business value through Elasticsearch is crucial. This spans the abilities to expand the collection infrastructure, ingest disparate data and enhance visualisation to provide insight and boost the efficiency of technical support. As the technical expert within the team, involvement in developing requirements ahead of monitoring and visualisation enhancement work will be encouraged. They are investing in Elasticsearch training for their people and, as the senior monitoring engineer, the role will involve mentoring those of lesser experienced to compliment this. The role is part of a support team of 30 operational staff, server engineers and network engineers and will be required to interact with middle management to receive direction, offer technical advice and explain the status of relevant issues and incidents. Requirements
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