Senior DevOps Engineer, Observability (Elastic Stack)

Role description and responsibilities This is a Senior Elasticsearch & Observability Engineer role focused on designing, building, maintaining, and extending the Elasticsearch Stack to drive observability practices across complex environments (Mainframe, Open Systems, and Container platforms). Day-to-day work combines technical execution, platform optimization, cross-team collaboration, continuous delivery governance, and coaching to drive observability adoption. What You'll Do Design, build, maintain, support, 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; Ensure platform performance, indexing efficiency, log retention policies, data lifecycle management, and secure access control; Follow vendor updates, new feature releases, and market trends to continuously evolve the observability platform; Work closely with development teams, architects, and operations teams to ensure seamless integration of observability and CI/CD knowledge; Establish best practices and governance for application monitoring and compliance with coding standards/guidelines; Coach and mentor team members, driving the adoption of new observability solutions across the organization; Collaborate with stakeholders to analyze needs, estimate effort for new features, co-create value-driven roadmaps, and report progress to Product Owners/Management