Senior Observability Platform Engineer - Elastic Search (Contract)

Responsibilities
Design, implement, and operate scalable Elastic Stack (ELK) solutions for logs, metrics, traces, and events.
Own end-to-end log ingestion pipelines using Beats, Logstash, Elastic Agent, and custom integrations.
Perform log parsing, filtering, cleanup, normalization, and enrichment using Grok, conditionals, processors, ingest pipelines, and ECS standards.
Define and implement ingestion best practices for performance and reliability.
Configure and maintain Kibana dashboards, visualizations, Lens, and Canvas for operational and business observability use cases.
Experience using Elastic Observability/SIEM and Elastic APM to instrument applications, collect and correlate logs, metrics, and traces, perform performance analysis, and visualize service dependencies.
Create and manage Elastic Machine Learning jobs (anomaly detection using multi metrics, forecasting) and interpret outcomes to generate insights and alerts.
Integrate Elasticsearch with other...