Senior DevOps / ELK Engineer

IRIUM Portugal; Lisboa; Híbrido; EUR 26 000 - 30 000; Tempo integral

Vantagens oferecidas por esta oferta de emprego

Medical insurance

Flexible pay

Resumo da oferta

IRIUM Portugal in Lisbon is seeking a Senior DevOps / ELK Engineer to design, implement and evolve the Elastic Stack for observability across Mainframe, Open Systems and Container platforms.

You will lead incident response, RCA, and release readiness while coaching teams to adopt new observability practices, collaborate with product owners, and ensure secure access and governance.

Hybrid work in Lisbon with competitive pay and benefits.

Qualificações

• 5-10 years hands-on IT experience with observability and production support.
• Proven Agile delivery and incident/release management.
• OS & Infrastructure knowledge: Linux/Windows; Mainframe knowledge a plus.

Responsabilidades

• Design, build, maintain and extend the Elastic Stack for observability.
• Drive observability across Mainframe, Open Systems and Container platforms.
• Ensure performance, log retention, data lifecycle, and secure access.
• Collaborate with development, architects and operations to integrate observability and CI/CD.
• Establish governance for monitoring and coding standards.
• Coach and mentor teams to adopt observability solutions.
• Lead RCA, incident handling and release execution.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to define roadmaps and report progress.

Conhecimentos

Observability

Incident management

Agile delivery

Stakeholder comms

On-call support

Cross-team coordination

Formação académica

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Ferramentas

Elastic Stack

Bitbucket

Git

Jenkins

Ansible

Kubernetes

REST API

Azure knowledge

Descrição da oferta de emprego

At IRIUM we want you to always chase your dreams. Here, prepare yourself to conquer your goals, while enjoying the journey.

We are currently looking for: Senior DevOps / ELK Engineer

Requirements

A Senior DevOps / ELK Engineer role focused 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.

Qualifications

• 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 the 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).

Location

Lisbon - Hybrid

Range Salarial

€2,300–€2,700 gross monthly salary

Note

Includes all components: Fixed, Variable, Meal Allowance, Remote Work, and Benefits.

What do we offer

An innovative and growing company, with a lot of opportunities for professional development.

Retribution according to your experience and performance. Access to flexible pay and medical insurance as a social benefit.

Unlimited access to technological training in free mode.

IRIUM is a company with dynamic and proactive professionals. Our values are responsibility and commitment to work quality. This is the spirit we are looking for at IRIUM, whatever your age is. If you recognize yourself in this, this is your company!

We can build the future together. Let’s talk!

At IRIUM we defend a world without stereotypes or limitations and we believe in equality for all, principles that we subscribe to in our Equality Plan and Code of Ethics, guaranteeing equal treatment and opportunities regardless of any personal, physical or social condition.