Elasticsearch & Observability Engineer — Hybrid Lisbon

Kwan; Lisboa; Hybrid; EUR 45,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation package

Visa sponsorship

Competitive salary & benefits

Job summary

KWAN in Lisbon is seeking an Elastic Stack Observability Engineer (Junior or Senior) to design, build and operate observability across mainframe, open systems and containers in a hybrid model (2x per week in the office).

You will collaborate with development, architecture and operations teams to embed observability, define standards, and lead production troubleshooting, incidents and releases while keeping up with Elastic releases.

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field.
• Hands-on experience with Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Beats, Elastic Agents) and OpenTelemetry.
• Strong observability knowledge: logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, alerts.
• Experience with CI/CD tools: Git, Bitbucket, Jenkins, Ansible.
• Knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, and REST APIs.
• Linux and Windows fundamentals; Mainframe knowledge a plus.
• Experience in Agile environments and incident/release management.
• Professional English (C1); French or Dutch a plus.
• Availability for on-call support.
• Nice to have Elasticsearch certification, Microsoft Azure, and regulated industries experience.

Responsibilities

• Build, evolve and support an Elastic Stack platform powering observability across environments.
• Design observability solutions for various applications with performance and data lifecycle focus.
• Partner with development, architecture and operations to embed observability into delivery lifecycles.
• Define best practices for monitoring and help teams adopt observability solutions.
• Lead production troubleshooting, root cause analysis, incidents and releases.
• Coordinate with stakeholders to estimate features, shape the roadmap, report progress.
• Keep up with Elastic releases and market trends to evolve the platform.

Skills

Observability concepts

CI/CD practices

Incident & release management

English proficiency (C1)

On-call readiness

Agile methodologies

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

Elastic Stack

OpenTelemetry

Git

Bitbucket

Jenkins

Ansible

Docker

Kubernetes

REST APIs

Job description

KWAN in Lisbon is seeking an Elastic Stack Observability Engineer (Junior or Senior) to design, build and operate observability across mainframe, open systems and containers in a hybrid model (2x per week in the office).

You will collaborate with development, architecture and operations teams to embed observability, define standards, and lead production troubleshooting, incidents and releases while keeping up with Elastic releases.