ELK Senior Consultant

TL;DR

ELK Senior Consultant: Building and managing ELK stack for observability and monitoring with an accent on log ingestion pipelines, Elasticsearch indexing/storage, Kibana dashboards, and alerting. Focus on defining onboarding strategies, creating platform scripts, end-to-end monitoring contributions, and deployments in Azure using Terraform and Puppet.

Hybrid, Lisbon, Portugal

Company

Based in Portugal, hirify.global is your specialized IT consulting partner with 18 years of experience driven by an experienced senior team helping clients in a fast-moving market.

What you will do

• Build log ingestion pipelines using Logstash/Filebeat, index and store data in Elasticsearch, create dashboards in Kibana, and set up alerting.
• Contribute to observability and monitoring strategies, including OpenTelemetry.
• Define onboarding strategies, create platform onboarding scripts, and estimate/break down delivery tasks.
• Handle hands-on ops, configuration, administration of ELK stack with Linux support.
• Deploy in Azure environments using Terraform, Puppet, and Git.

Requirements

• 5–6 years experience required
• Strong ELK expertise (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) with hands-on ops, configuration, administration, and Linux support
• Experience building log ingestion pipelines (Logstash/Filebeat), indexing/storage in Elasticsearch, dashboards in Kibana, and alerting
• Knowledge of observability and monitoring (including OpenTelemetry) and contribution to end-to-end monitoring strategy/studies
• Experience in Azure environments with Terraform, Puppet, and Git for deployments
• Ability to define onboarding strategies, create platform onboarding scripts, and estimate and break down delivery tasks

Culture & Benefits

• No-term full-time contract
• Health Insurance
• 22 days of paid vacation + 4 extra days annually (Carnival, Christmas Eve, New Year's Eve, Birthday)
• Meal Allowance on card (Coverflex)
• Referral Bonus, special discounts and flex options
• Training annual budget, great team-oriented culture, chance to grow in a dynamically growing international company with challenging projects