Senior Elasticsearch & Observability Engineer

Location: Lisbon, Portugal — hybrid (CET alignment required)

About the role

We are looking for a Senior Elasticsearch & Observability Engineer to design, build and evolve the Elastic Stack that underpins observability across a complex, multi-platform landscape — Mainframe, Open Systems and Container platforms. The role combines deep technical execution with platform optimisation, cross-team collaboration and coaching, and you will be a reference point for observability adoption across the organisation.

What you'll do

• Design, build, maintain 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
• Own platform performance, indexing efficiency, log retention policies, data lifecycle management and secure access control
• Track vendor updates, new releases and market trends to continuously evolve the platform
• Work closely with development, architecture and operations teams to integrate observability into CI/CD practices
• Establish best practices and governance for application monitoring and compliance with coding standards
• Coach and mentor team members and drive adoption of new observability solutions
• Work with stakeholders to analyse needs, estimate effort, co-create roadmaps and report progress to Product Owners and management
• Lead production troubleshooting, root cause analysis, P1/P2 incident handling and release execution

What you'll need

• University degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a comparable technical field
• 5–10 years of hands-on experience in IT environments, with a focus on observability and production support
• Strong hands-on expertise across the Elastic platform (Beats, Elastic Agents, Logstash, Elasticsearch, Kibana) and OpenTelemetry standards
• Solid command of observability fundamentals: logs, metrics, traces, golden signals, log analysis, dashboard creation and alerting configuration
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD tooling (Bitbucket, Git, Jenkins, UCD, Ansible) and automated testing frameworks
• Docker and Kubernetes; REST API fundamentals and system integration
• Linux and Windows fundamentals: processes, file systems, shell, key metrics
• Proven track record in Agile delivery and incident/release management
• Experience in cross-team coordination, stakeholder communication and effort estimation
• Understanding of security controls: authentication, RBAC, access management and audit compliance
• Professional English at C1 level, spoken and written (mandatory)

Strong plus

• Elasticsearch certification
• Microsoft Azure knowledge
• Mainframe exposure
• Experience in regulated environments, particularly Financial Services
• French and/or Dutch

Who you are

• A strong collaborator and coach, comfortable mentoring peers and engaging both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Proactive, with strong ownership and a structured approach to problem solving
• Committed to continuous learning
• Available for on-call support and scheduled overtime when required

Legal requirement: you must hold a valid work permit or EU/Schengen nationality to work legally in Portugal.

What can you expect from us?

Mind-blowing workplace culture. You will be integrated in a professional, dynamic and collaborative team.

100% Remote opportunities

We want you to have the flexibility to work where you feel most comfortable and productive.

International Career

• You can expect professional growth and to be connect with the world.
• We are represented in Portugal, Belgium, Luxembourg, and Denmark.
• And with projects in many other countries: Netherlands, Luxembourg, Singapore and in the United States of America (and a lot more is coming…)

Extra Benefits & Perks

If you wish to work with us and you are outside European Union (good news…) we are a Tech Visa Company, We will help!

As a plus, we provide Health and Life Insurance.