Job details:

• Full-time
• Hybrid in Lisbon office
• Start date: 01/10/2026
• Duration: 6 months + extensions

A senior Elasticsearch & Observability Engineer role focus on designing, building, maintaining, and extending the Elastic Stack to drive observability practices across complex environments (Mainframe, Open Systems, and Container platforms). Day-to-day work combines technical execution, platform optimization, cross-team collaboration, continuous delivery governance, and coaching to drive observability adoption.

Scope:

• Design, build, maintain, support, and extend the Elastic Stack (Beats, Elastic Agents, Logstash, Elasticsearch, Kibana);
• Drive Observability practices and design solutions for applications hosted on Mainframe, Open Systems, and Container platforms;
• Ensure platform performance, indexing efficiency, log retention policies, data lifecycle management, and secure access control;
• Follow vendor updates, new feature releases, and market trends to continuously evolve the observability platform;
• Work closely with development teams, architects, and operations teams to ensure the seamless integration of observability and CI/CD knowledge.
• Establish best practices and governance for application monitoring, and compliance with coding standards/guidelines;
• Coach and mentor team members, driving the adoption of new observability solutions across the organization;
• Collaborate with stakeholders to analyze needs, estimate effort for new features, co-create value-driven roadmaps, and report progress to Product Owners/Management;
• Lead production troubleshooting, root cause analysis (RCA), incident handling (P1/P2), and release execution.

Requirements:

• University degree in Computer Science, Engineering or comparable technical field;
• 5-10 years of hands-on experience in IT environments with focus on observability and production support;
• Proven track record in Agile delivery models and incident/release management;
• Solid experience in cross-team coordination, stakeholder communication, and effort estimation;
• Strong hands-on expertise with Elastic platform (Beats, Elastic Agents, Logstash, Elasticsearch, Kibana, OpenTelemetry standards);
• Observability core concepts: logs, metrics, traces, golden signals, log analysis, dashboard creation, and alerting configuration;
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools (Bitbucket, Git, Jenkins, UCD, Ansible) and automated testing frameworks;
• Container & Cloud technologies: Docker & Kubernetes; APIs and system integration (REST API fundamentals);
• Basic understanding of security controls: authentication, RBAC, access management, and audit compliance;
• Productivity Tools: Jira, Confluence, ServiceNow, MS Office;
• Willingness and availability for on-call support and scheduled overtime activities when required;
• English C1 (spoken and written)
• Availability to work in a hybrid model (Lisbon office).

Nice to have:

• OS & Infrastructure knowledge: Linux and Windows fundamentals (processes, file systems, shell, key metrics); Mainframe knowledge is a plus.
• Elasticsearch certification and Microsoft Azure knowledge are a strong plus.
• Experience in regulated environments (e.g., Financial Services) is a strong plus;
• French and/or Dutch plus.

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