Senior DevOps / ELK Engineer
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Summary
Senior DevOps / Elastic Observability Engineer in Lisbon (hybrid, 2 on-site days/week) who designs, maintains and extends Elastic Stack monitoring (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, Beats/Elastic Agents) across mainframe, open systems and container platforms, plus CI/CD integration, incident response and team coaching.
We are seeking a Senior DevOps and Elastic Observability Engineer to design, evolve and support monitoring solutions across complex mainframe, open systems and container environments.
Location: Lisbon, Portugal (hybrid, 2 days per week on site) Employment: Full-time
Responsibilities
- Design, build, maintain and extend the Elastic Stack, including Beats, Elastic Agents, Logstash, Elasticsearch and Kibana.
- Drive observability practices for applications across mainframe, open systems and container platforms.
- Improve platform performance, indexing efficiency, log retention, data lifecycle and secure access.
- Establish monitoring standards and CI/CD integration with development, architecture and operations teams.
- Coach teams on observability adoption and contribute to roadmaps and platform improvements.
- Lead production troubleshooting, incident response, release execution and root-cause analysis.
Required skills and experience
- 5-10 years of IT experience with a strong focus on observability and production support.
- Hands-on experience with the Elastic Stack: Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, Beats or Elastic Agents.
- Knowledge of logs, metrics, traces, OpenTelemetry, dashboards and alerting.
- Experience with Linux and Windows fundamentals, CI/CD tools such as Git, Jenkins, Bitbucket, UCD or Ansible, and automated testing.
- Docker, Kubernetes, REST APIs, security controls and access management.
- Strong incident management, stakeholder communication and cross-team coordination skills.
- A degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a comparable field. Elasticsearch certification and Azure knowledge are an advantage.
This full-time role is based in Lisbon, with a hybrid schedule of 2 on-site days per week.