Senior Elasticsearch & Observability Engineer (Elasticsearch)

Location: Lisbon, Portugal — hybrid; CET alignment required. Remote opportunities are also mentioned. You must hold a valid work permit or EU/Schengen nationality to work legally in Portugal.

Company

hirify.global is a technology company delivering tailored solutions across Cloud, Cybersecurity, Data, and Advanced Development in Europe.

What you will do

• Design, build, maintain, and extend the Elastic Stack, including Beats, Elastic Agents, Logstash, Elasticsearch, and Kibana.
• Drive observability solutions across Mainframe, Open Systems, and Container platforms.
• Own platform performance, indexing efficiency, log retention, data lifecycle management, secure access control, and compliance practices.
• Integrate observability into CI/CD with development, architecture, and operations teams.
• Coach team members, establish governance, track platform evolution, and support adoption of new solutions.
• Lead stakeholder estimation and roadmaps, production troubleshooting, root cause analysis, P1/P2 incidents, and release execution.

Requirements

• University degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a comparable technical field.
• 5–10 years of hands-on IT experience focused on observability and production support.
• Strong hands-on expertise with Beats, Elastic Agents, Logstash, Elasticsearch, Kibana, and OpenTelemetry standards.
• Knowledge of logs, metrics, traces, golden signals, log analysis, dashboards, and alerting.
• Hands-on experience with Bitbucket, Git, Jenkins, UCD, Ansible, CI/CD, and automated testing frameworks.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, REST APIs, system integration, Linux, and Windows fundamentals.
• Proven Agile delivery, incident management, release management, cross-team coordination, stakeholder communication, and effort estimation experience.
• Understanding of authentication, RBAC, access management, and audit compliance.
• Professional English at C1 level, spoken and written, is mandatory.
• Valid work permit or EU/Schengen nationality is required to work legally in Portugal.

Nice to have

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

Culture & Benefits

• Professional, dynamic, and collaborative workplace culture.
• Remote work opportunities and international career exposure.
• Projects and representation across Portugal, Belgium, Luxembourg, Denmark, the Netherlands, Singapore, and the United States.
• Available for on-call support and scheduled overtime when required.
• Tech Visa support is available for candidates outside the European Union.
• Health and life insurance may be provided.