Senior DevOps Engineer – Elastic Stack & Kafka

Job description

We’re looking for aSenior DevOps Engineer to own the engineering and operation of production Elastic Stack and Kafka platforms. You’ll design and maintain ingestion pipelines, manage Elasticsearch environments, automate Linux operations, and support live systems across virtual and physical infrastructure. The role requires hands-on engineering, scripting, automation, troubleshooting, and ownership of production outcomes.

ABOUT THE JOB

• Design, deploy, configure, and maintain production Elastic Stack environments.
• Manage Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, Elastic Agent, Beats, and related platform components.
• Build and maintain ingestion pipelines, including 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.
• Administer and troubleshoot RHEL and Ubuntu servers.
• Investigate indexing failures, ingestion delays, data gaps, cluster issues, performance degradation, and service failures.
• Write automation and operational tooling using Python or Bash.
• Create and maintain Ansible playbooks, roles, and configuration procedures.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for platform configuration, code, and infrastructure changes.
• Support production environments across virtualised and physical infrastructure.
• Lead incident investigation, root-cause analysis, corrective actions, and technical documentation.
• Work with infrastructure, application, security, and operations teams on platform changes and production support.

ABOUT YOU

• 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 discipline.
• At least 4-5 years of direct, hands-on experience designing, deploying, and supporting Elastic Stack platforms in production.
• Strong production experience with Elastic Stack ingestion, indexing, cluster administration, monitoring, and analytics.
• Strong hands-on experience with Kafka in production environments.
• Proficient Linux administration skills across RHEL and/or Ubuntu.
• At least 2 years of scripting or programming experience using Python or Bash.
• Experience with Ansible or a comparable automation and configuration management tool.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and version-controlled infrastructure or configuration.
• Experience supporting live production systems and resolving complex technical incidents.
• Experience working with both virtualised and physical infrastructure.
• Ability to work independently, manage competing priorities, and take ownership of technical outcomes.

WHY AMARIS?

• An international community bringing together 110+ different nationalities
• An environment where trust has a central place: 70% of our key leaders started their careers at the first level of responsibilities
• A robust training system with our internal Academy and 250+ available modules
• A vibrant workplace that frequently gathers for internal events (afterworks, team buildings, etc.)

Amaris Consulting is proud to be an equal-opportunity workplace. We are committed to promoting diversity within the workforce and creating an inclusive working environment. For this purpose, we welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of gender, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, beliefs, age, marital status, disability, or other characteristics.

Who are we?

Amaris Consulting is an independent technology consulting firm providing guidance and solutions to businesses. With more than 1,000 clients across the globe, we have been rolling out solutions in major projects for over a decade – this is made possible by an international team of 7,600 people spread across 5 continents and more than 60 countries. Our solutions focus on four different Business Lines: Information System & Digital, Telecom, Life Sciences and Engineering. We’re focused on building and nurturing a top talent community where all our team members can achieve their full potential. Amaris is your steppingstone to cross rivers of change, meet challenges and achieve all your projects with success.

At Amaris, we strive to provide our candidates with the best possible recruitment experience. We like to get to know our candidates, challenge them, and be able to give them proper feedback as quickly as possible. Here's what our recruitment process looks like:

Brief Call: Our process typically begins with a brief virtual/phone conversation to get to know you! The objective? Learn about you, understand your motivations, and make sure we have the right job for you!

Interviews (the average number of interviews is 3 - the number may vary depending on the level of seniority required for the position). During the interviews, you will meet people from our team: your line manager of course, but also other people related to your future role. We will talk in depth about you, your experience, and skills, but also about the position and what will be expected of you. Of course, you will also get to know Amaris: our culture, our roots, our teams, and your career opportunities!

Case study: Depending on the position, we may ask you to take a test. This could be a role play, a technical assessment, a problem-solving scenario, etc.

As you know, every person is different and so is every role in a company. That is why we have to adapt accordingly, and the process may differ slightly at times. However, please know that we always put ourselves in the candidate's shoes to ensure they have the best possible experience. We look forward to meeting you!