Senior DevOps / ELK Engineer

emagine Group; Lisboa; Hybrid; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

emagine is seeking a Senior Elasticsearch & Observability Engineer to design, build, and extend the Elastic Stack to drive observability across complex environments including Mainframe, Open Systems, and Container platforms.

You will collaborate with development teams and operations, ensure performance and data lifecycle management, and lead incident management and release execution with a coaching mindset to spread best practices across the organization.

Qualifications

• University degree in Computer Science, Engineering or comparable technical field.
• 5-10 years of hands-on IT experience with observability and production support.
• Proven track record in Agile delivery models and incident/release management.
• Strong cross-team coordination and stakeholder communication.
• Linux and Windows fundamentals; Mainframe knowledge is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and extend the Elastic Stack for observability.
• Drive observability practices across Mainframe, Open Systems, and Container platforms.
• Ensure performance, log retention, data lifecycle, and secure access.
• Collaborate with development, architects and operations to integrate CI/CD and observability.
• Lead incident handling, RCA, and release execution.
• Coach and mentor team members on new observability solutions.

Skills

Elastic platform

Observability concepts

CI/CD tools

Container & Cloud

REST API integration

Security controls

Cross-team coordination

Professional English

Education

University degree in Computer Science, Engineering or comparable technical field

Tools

Bitbucket

Git

Jenkins

Ansible

Docker

Kubernetes

OpenTelemetry

Job description

A senior Elasticsearch & Observability Engineer role focuses 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.

What You’ll Do

• 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.

What You’ll Need

• 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;
• OS & Infrastructure knowledge: Linux and Windows fundamentals (processes, file systems, shell, key metrics); Mainframe knowledge is a plus.

Technical Skills

• 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;
• Elasticsearch certification and Microsoft Azure knowledge are a strong plus;
• Productivity Tools: Jira, Confluence, ServiceNow, MS Office.

Profile & Other Requirements

• Professional English C1 (spoken and written) - mandatory; French and/or Dutch is a plus;
• Strong collaboration & coaching skills - comfortable mentoring peers and interacting with technical and non-technical stakeholders;
• Proactive mindset with strong ownership, structured problem-solving, and continuous learning attitude;
• Experience in regulated environments (e.g., Financial Services) is a strong plus;
• Willingness and availability for on-call support and scheduled overtime activities when required;
• Must own a valid work permit or EU/Schengen Space nationality to legally work in Portugal;
• Portugal-based, specifically in Lisbon - hybrid working model (CET alignment required): 2x per week on-site in Oriente station.

Legal: Must own a valid work permit or EU/Schengen Space Nationality to legally work in Portugal.