Senior DevOps / ELK Engineer
First seen by Alion on Oct 9, 2026.
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We are looking for a Senior DevOps / ELK Engineer ?to join a hybrid project in? Lisbon.
Salary range: 42.250€ - 51.700€ annual gross.
Profile:
- Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or technical equivalent;
- 5 to 10 years of hands-on experience in IT environments focusing on observability and production support;
- Deep expertise in the Elastic Stack (Beats, Elastic Agents, Logstash, Elasticsearch, Kibana) and OpenTelemetry standards;
- Solid background in logs, metrics, traces, golden signals, alerting configuration, and dashboard creation;
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, Bitbucket, Git, UCD, Ansible) and containers (Docker, Kubernetes);
- Operating system proficiency: Linux and Windows (fundamentals, shell, metrics);
- Familiarity with RBAC, access management, REST APIs, and basic security controls;
- Elastic certifications and Microsoft Azure experience are a strong plus;
- Professional English C1 (mandatory); French or Dutch is a plus;
- EU/Schengen nationality or valid legal work permit for Portugal (Lisbon hybrid model, CET aligned).
Responsibilities:
- Design, build, optimize, and maintain the Elastic Stack across Mainframe, Open Systems, and Container platforms;
- Drive observability standards, managing indexing efficiency, log retention policies, data lifecycle, and security controls;
- Integrate observability solutions into CI/CD pipelines in collaboration with development and operations teams;
- Establish application monitoring governance, coding guidelines, and best practices across the organization;
- Lead production troubleshooting, root cause analysis (RCA), P1/P2 incident handling, and release execution;
- Coach and mentor team members to accelerate adoption of new observability solutions;
- Collaborate with Product Owners to estimate effort, design value-driven roadmaps, and report project progress.
We offer:
- Health insurance;
- Free online training through the Udemy platform;
- On-site and remote training at Olisipo's Learning Center;
- Free certifications (after passing the exam);
- Discounts at Olisipo Partners (in the areas of health and well-being, fitness, travel, among others);
- Free psychological consultations;
- Possibility of a salary advance, without commissions.
If you have the right profile, send us your CV??through our website www.olisipo.pt or to [email protected]??and learn more about this opportunity!