Summary
Position: Cloud Engineer
Type: Contract (Inside IR35)
Duration: 6 Months
Location: Edinburgh/Glasgow
Hybrid: (2 Days / Week On-Site)
We're looking for an experienced Senior Cloud Engineer with specialist ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) expertise to join Social Security Scotland on a 6-month contract. This role is ideal for Cloud Engineers with a strong public sector track record who want to make a real impact on secure, large-scale services.
You'll play a key part in enhancing the organisation's Logging, Monitoring, and Alerting (LMA) capability, working on the design, maintenance, and optimisation of Elastic stacks and clusters. The role requires hands-on experience with data ingestion pipelines, performance tuning, and building effective visualisations from large data sets.
Key Skills & Experience:
1. 2+ years as an ELK SME (Elastic, Logstash, Kibana)
2. Proven experience designing, managing, and tuning large Elastic clusters
3. St...