Platform Support Engineer - Elastic Stack - £700 per day - 6 months

Hawksworth is now recruiting for a Platform Support Engineer (Elastic Stack) for an inside IR35 Contract paying up to £700 per day for a 6 months assignment.

Please double check you have the right level of experience and qualifications by reading the full overview of this opportunity below.

This is a London based role, x3 days in the office, x2 days from home.

The successful engineer with join a team that provides application platform support to the ENET environment, the dedicated environment used to support electronic trading systems.

Required skills & Experience:

• Expert-level knowledge of the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Beats), with proven experience in architecting, deploying, and managing ELK infrastructure across distributed, high-performance environments.
• Strong understanding of index lifecycle management (ILM), shard optimization, and cluster health monitoring to support low latency applications.
• Practical and working knowledge of IP networking and data flow within distributed systems.
• Experience integrating ELK with packet capture/analysis tools to enhance observability of real-time systems.
• Hands-on expertise in data pipeline creation, ingestion strategies, and performance tuning of Logstash and Beats for scalable telemetry.
• Knowledge of Corvil and/or Pico tools is highly beneficial but not essential, particularly for ingesting network telemetry into Elasticsearch.
• Scripting proficiency in Python and/or PowerShell to automate ELK deployment, monitoring, and alerting pipelines.

If you have the above experience please apply now for a quick response!

Thank you.