Senior Elastic Stack & Observability Engineer - Hybrid (Lisbon)

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

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.