Senior DevOps Engineer (Elastic Stack & Kafka)

Location: Singapore

Company

hirify.global is an independent technology consulting firm providing technology guidance and solutions to businesses through a global team across more than 60 countries.

What you will do

• Design, deploy, configure, and maintain production Elastic Stack environments, including Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, Elastic Agent, and Beats.
• Build and maintain ingestion pipelines covering parsing, routing, enrichment, indexing, mappings, retention, and data lifecycle policies.
• Manage Elasticsearch cluster health, shard allocation, replicas, storage, capacity, performance, and recovery procedures.
• Operate Kafka environments, including topics, partitions, consumer groups, retention, throughput, consumer lag, and failure recovery.
• Automate Linux operations with Python or Bash, Ansible playbooks, and CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and configuration changes.
• Investigate production incidents, perform root-cause analysis, implement corrective actions, and collaborate with infrastructure, application, security, and operations teams.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• 7+ years of professional experience in platform engineering, DevOps, systems engineering, infrastructure, or a related field.
• At least 4–5 years of hands-on production experience with Elastic Stack platforms, including ingestion, indexing, cluster administration, monitoring, and analytics.
• Strong hands-on production experience with Kafka and Linux administration across RHEL and/or Ubuntu.
• At least 2 years of scripting or programming experience with Python or Bash, plus experience with Ansible or a comparable automation tool.
• Experience with CI/CD, version-controlled infrastructure or configuration, live production systems, complex technical incidents, and virtualised and physical infrastructure.

Culture & Benefits

• International community representing more than 110 nationalities.
• Internal Academy with more than 250 training modules.
• Regular internal events, including afterworks and team-building activities.
• Opportunities to lead social and environmental impact projects through the WeCare Together program.
• Inclusive, equal-opportunity working environment.

Hiring process

• Brief virtual or phone call.
• Approximately three interviews, varying by seniority.
• Potential case study, technical assessment, role play, or problem-solving exercise.