Senior DevOps and Elastic Observability Engineer

Quick Facts

• Role: Senior DevOps and Elastic Observability Engineer
• Focus: Designing and extending the Elastic Stack for observability across complex environments

Description

Design, build, maintain, and extend the Elastic Stack (Beats, Elastic Agents, Logstash, Elasticsearch, Kibana) to enable observability practices across mainframe, open systems, and container platforms. Own performance, indexing efficiency, log retention, data lifecycle management, and secure access control, while continuously evolving the platform based on vendor updates and market trends. Lead production troubleshooting, root cause analysis, incident handling (P1/P2), and release execution; coach teams to adopt new observability solutions.

Responsibilities

• Build and extend the Elastic Stack components
• Design observability solutions for applications on Mainframe, Open Systems, and Containers
• Manage platform performance, indexing efficiency, retention, data lifecycle, and access control
• Stay current with Elastic vendor updates and new features
• Collaborate with development, architecture, and operations teams to integrate observability with CI/CD
• Define best practices and governance for monitoring, coding standards, and compliance
• Mentor team members and drive adoption of observability solutions
• Analyze needs, estimate effort, co-create roadmaps, and report progress to Product Owners/Management
• Lead incident troubleshooting and RCA; handle P1/P2 incidents and execute releases

Requirements

• University degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or comparable technical field
• 5–10 years hands-on experience in observability and production support
• Proven experience in Agile delivery and incident/release management
• Strong cross-team coordination, stakeholder communication, and effort estimation skills
• Linux and Windows fundamentals (processes, file systems, shell, key metrics); Mainframe knowledge is a plus
• Professional English C1 (spoken and written)
• Willingness to provide on-call support and scheduled overtime when required
• Must have a valid work permit or EU/Schengen nationality to work in Portugal

Benefits

• Hybrid working model in Lisbon (Oriente station): 2 days per week on-site (CET alignment required)