PHays Italy, part of the multinational Hays group, a company listed on the London Stock Exchange, which offers consulting services in the Information Technology sector with the aim of contributing to the success and technological progress of individuals and companies, is looking for a /ppbr/ppbSystem Engineer /b(bfull remote /b– Italy-based) /ppbr/ppto operate evolve the company’s bLog Management /b platforms. The environment underpins business‑critical regulated workloads, including blegal /b/bjustice log streams /b application observability; must remain resilient, secure performant at scale. Field: national provider of bcloud /b,b hosting /b,b domain registration /b,b data center /bb trust services /b(includingb certified email /b/bPEC /b) /ppbr/ppbKey Responsibilities /b /pulliOperate maintain the bELK /b/ bKafka /b‑based log ingestion search stack, ensuring bhigh availability /b, scaling fine‑tuning (topics, partitions, shards, indices, ILM, retention) /liliProactively bmonitor capacity /b bperformance /b; analyze bmonthly reports /b btrends /b to bforecast growth /b bprevent incidents /b /liliEngineer optimize bLogstash /b pipelines, bGrok /b patterns parsing/transport paths; reprocess failed events reduce parsing failure rates /liliImplement bpatch management /b, address end‑of‑life scenarios apply bsecurity fixes /b according to guidelines provided by the Security function /liliCollaborate with bapplication owners /b, bLegal /b/bCompliance /b other bBusiness Lines /b to align ingestion contracts, bAPI /b usage monitoring /liliContribute to delivery bacceptance testing /bb handover /b, updating technical documentation run books (bJIRA /b used for ticketing / workflow) /liliMaintain bobservability dashboards /b bmetrics /b (bGrafana /b/bElastic /b) improve balerting fidelity /b /li /ulpbr/ppbRequirements /b /pulliSolid hands‑on experience administering bELK /b ecosystems at scale, including bKafka /b/ bZookeeper /b, bLogstash /b, bElasticsearch /b cluster sizing tuning /liliStrong bLinux /b systems administration (bUbuntu /b, bCentOS /b/bRHEL /b, bDebian /b) in clustered HA environments; working knowledge of bMicrosoft Windows Server 2012–2019 /b as needed /liliIaC: bAnsible /b (roles, inventories, AWX) bTerraform /b for provisioning drift control /liliCI/CD versioning: bGitLab /b /liliFamiliarity with bITIL /b processes (Incident/Change/Service Request) ticketing via bJIRA /b /liliClear technical writing for run books operational documentation /li /ulpbr/ppLocation: completely bfull remote /b– Italy-based /ppbr/ppbFreelancers /bare highly welcomed too /ppbr/ppCandidates of bany gender identity /b, after reviewing the mandatory privacy notice available at are kindly requested to submit their CV in bPDF /bformat, quoting the reference number (Ref. b--- /b). Hays Solutions S.r.l. Sole Shareholder Company. Subject to the management and coordination of Hays /p