Remote Elastic Stack & Observability Platform Lead

Bridge351

Lisboa

Hybrid

EUR 70,000 - 90,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

bridge351 is seeking a Senior Elasticsearch & Observability Engineer to design, build and evolve the Elastic Stack powering observability across Mainframe, Open Systems and Container platforms. You will mentor teams, drive adoption, and collaborate with Product Owners to shape roadmaps.

You will own platform performance, log retention policies and secure access, while staying current with vendor updates and industry trends.

Qualifications

University degree or equivalent technical field.
5–10 years of hands-on observability and production support experience.
Strong Elastic Stack (Beats, Elastic Agents, Logstash, Elasticsearch, Kibana) and OpenTelemetry knowledge.
Solid grasp of logs, metrics, traces, dashboards and alerts.
Experience with CI/CD tools and automation frameworks.
Docker and Kubernetes proficiency; REST APIs and system integration.

Responsibilities

Design, build, maintain and extend the Elastic Stack for observability across multi-platform landscape.
Drive observability practices and design solutions for diverse platforms.
Own platform performance, indexing efficiency, data lifecycle and access control.
Track vendor updates and evolve the platform with market trends.
Collaborate with development, architecture and ops teams to CI/CD integration.
Establish governance for monitoring and coding standards.