Senior Elastic Observability DevOps Engineer - Hybrid

act digital; Lisboa; Hybrid; EUR 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

act digital in Lisbon seeks a Senior DevOps and Elastic Observability Engineer to design, evolve and support monitoring across mainframe, open systems and container environments. You will implement the Elastic Stack and drive observability across platforms to ensure reliability and performance.

The role requires 5-10 years in IT with hands-on Elastic Stack, Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD tools. You will mentor teams, establish standards, and lead incident response.

Qualifications

• 5-10 years IT experience with observability focus.
• Hands-on Elastic Stack: Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, Beats or Elastic Agents.
• Knowledge of logs, metrics, traces, OpenTelemetry, dashboards and alerting.
• Experience with Linux and Windows fundamentals and CI/CD tools (Git, Jenkins, Bitbucket, UCD, Ansible).
• Docker, Kubernetes, REST APIs, security controls and access management.
• Strong incident management and cross-team coordination.
• Elasticsearch certification and Azure knowledge are an advantage.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, maintain and extend the Elastic Stack (Beats, Elastic Agents, Logstash, Elasticsearch, 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.

Skills

Observability

Production support

Incident management

CI/CD

Docker

Kubernetes

Linux/Windows

OpenTelemetry

Dashboards

Access management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

Elastic Stack

Elasticsearch

Kibana

Logstash

Beats

Elastic Agents

Job description

act digital in Lisbon seeks a Senior DevOps and Elastic Observability Engineer to design, evolve and support monitoring across mainframe, open systems and container environments. You will implement the Elastic Stack and drive observability across platforms to ensure reliability and performance.

The role requires 5-10 years in IT with hands-on Elastic Stack, Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD tools. You will mentor teams, establish standards, and lead incident response.