Murali Krishna MV
Observability Engineering Lead | Specialist In ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana & Logstash)
Hyderabad
Summary
Observability Engineering Lead with 11 years of experience in designing, scaling, and operating enterprise-grade log management platforms across large, complex infrastructures.
Deep expertise in Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) and OpenSearch , with proven ownership of large-scale clusters supporting high-volume ingestion, indexing and search workloads.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
Work History
Lead Systems Engineer
Société Générale
01.2021 - Current
- Lead the Observability team from Bengaluru, owning an ELK-based (Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana) logging platform that supports multi-region workloads.
- Manage 250+ Logstash instances and 1,000+ pipelines for distributed ingestion across global environments.
- Handling enterprise-scale log pipelines ingesting data from 80K+ Beat agents (Filebeat & Winlogbeat) , network infrastructure via syslog, Windows Domain Controllers and Workstations through GPO-enforced log collection, and AIX systems using Syslog agents, ensuring reliable, high-throughput log management.
- Designed and maintained Kibana dashboards to monitor log collection health, pipeline performance, and BAU operational activities.
- Built Grafana dashboards to provide real-time visibility into core infrastructure metrics and platform health.
- Performed Elasticsearch to OpenSearch migration to eliminate licensing costs by adopting an open-source platform, resulting in the decommissioning of 10 Elasticsearch nodes and annual savings of ~€50K
- Running Elastic Agent & Elastic Fleet POC for centralized config, security, and rollout strategy.
- Basic hands-on exposure to cloud environments, including Azure and AWS, in support of observability and log management use cases.
- Working knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes fundamentals, with strong learning agility and readiness to adopt container technologies.
- Mentor engineers, oversee BAU activities, collaborate with Infra, Security, and DevOps for reliability improvements.
Associate Consultant
Virtusa
07.2018 - 01.2021
- Delivered ELK deployments for log analytics and monitoring use cases across telecom workloads.
• Built log ingestion pipelines and dashboards to improve operational visibility and incident handling.
• Worked directly with client teams to define log onboarding requirements and dashboard expectations.
• Contributed to alerting and visualization improvements for BAU and L2/L3 operations.
• Conducted knowledge-sharing sessions to uplift team competency in ELK and monitoring tools.
• Provided operational support, troubleshooting, and performance tuning for ELK stack components.
Application Development Analyst
Accenture
03.2015 - 06.2018
- Developed Shell & Perl automation scripts for operational workloads in retail domain.
- Owned validation, monitoring, and job execution workflows.
Education
B.Tech - Electronic Engineering
NRI Institute of Technology
Guntur05-2014
Skills
ELK Stack - Elasticsearch , Logstash , Kibana
OpenSearch , OpenSearch Dashboards
Monitoring & Dashboards: Kibana Grafana Zabbix
Pipelines & Infra: Kafka Apache Airflow HAProxy
OS: Linux Windows AIX (syslog ingestion)
Agents: Elastic Agent Filebeat Winlogbeat Syslog WEC/GPO
Logstash Pipelines & configuration management
ELK Platform Engineering
Cross-Functional Collaboration
Incident Operations
Mentoring & BAU Leadership
Basic knowledge on Microsoft Azure and AWS
Basics in Docker & Kubernetes (K8s)
Timeline
Lead Systems Engineer
Société Générale
01.2021 - Current
Associate Consultant
Virtusa
07.2018 - 01.2021
Application Development Analyst
Accenture
03.2015 - 06.2018
B.Tech - Electronic Engineering
NRI Institute of Technology