Senior DevOps / ELK Engineer

act digital; Lisboa; Hybrid; EUR 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

act digital seeks a Senior DevOps and Elastic Observability Engineer to design, evolve and support monitoring solutions across mainframe, open systems and container environments. The role is based in Lisbon with a hybrid schedule (2 on-site days per week) and full-time employment.

You will design, build and extend the Elastic Stack, drive observability practices, improve performance and lead incident management and post-incident reviews while coordinating with multiple teams and stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 5–10 years IT experience with focus on observability and production support.
• Hands-on with Elastic Stack: Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, Beats or Elastic Agents.
• Knowledge of logs, metrics, traces, OpenTelemetry, dashboards and alerting.
• Experience with Linux and Windows fundamentals; CI/CD tools (Git, Jenkins, Bitbucket, UCD, Ansible) and automated testing.
• Docker, Kubernetes, REST APIs, security controls and access management.
• Strong incident management, stakeholder communication and cross-team coordination.
• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering or comparable field; Elasticsearch certification and Azure knowledge are a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, maintain and extend the Elastic Stack and associated components.
• Drive observability practices for applications across mainframe, open systems and container platforms.
• Improve platform performance, indexing efficiency, log retention and data lifecycle.
• Establish monitoring standards and CI/CD integration with teams.
• Coach teams on observability adoption and contribute to roadmaps.
• Lead production troubleshooting, incident response and root-cause analysis.

Skills

Elastic Observability

Kubernetes

Docker

CI/CD

Incident management

Cross-team coordination

Azure knowledge

Education

Bachelor degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Elasticsearch certification

Tools

Elastic Stack

Git

Jenkins

Bitbucket

UCD / UrbanCode Deploy

Ansible

OpenTelemetry

REST APIs

Job description

We are seeking a Senior DevOps and Elastic Observability Engineer to design, evolve and support monitoring solutions across complex mainframe, open systems and container environments.

Location: Lisbon, Portugal (hybrid, 2 days per week on site)

Employment: Full-time

Responsibilities

• Design, build, maintain and extend the Elastic Stack, including Beats, Elastic Agents, Logstash, Elasticsearch and Kibana.
• Drive observability practices for applications across mainframe, open systems and container platforms.
• Improve platform performance, indexing efficiency, log retention, data lifecycle and secure access.
• Establish monitoring standards and CI/CD integration with development, architecture and operations teams.
• Coach teams on observability adoption and contribute to roadmaps and platform improvements.
• Lead production troubleshooting, incident response, release execution and root-cause analysis.

Required skills and experience

• 5–10 years of IT experience with a strong focus on observability and production support.
• Hands-on experience with the Elastic Stack: Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, Beats or Elastic Agents.
• Knowledge of logs, metrics, traces, OpenTelemetry, dashboards and alerting.
• Experience with Linux and Windows fundamentals, CI/CD tools such as Git, Jenkins, Bitbucket, UCD or Ansible, and automated testing.
• Docker, Kubernetes, REST APIs, security controls and access management.
• Strong incident management, stakeholder communication and cross-team coordination skills.
• A degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a comparable field. Elasticsearch certification and Azure knowledge are an advantage.

This full-time role is based in Lisbon, with a hybrid schedule of 2 on-site days per week.