Elastic Engineer

2 weeks ago

Sibiu, Sibiu, Romania NTT DATA Romania SA Full time 30,000 - 90,000 per year

Who we are

We are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to design, build, and operate scalable, secure, and highly available infrastructure for our cloud and on-prem environments. The ideal candidate has deep experience with Linux, logging and observability (the ELK Stack), configuration management (Ansible), container orchestration (Kubernetes), infrastructure as code (Terraform), virtualization, and monitoring tools such as Grafana and Prometheus. This role will partner with development teams, platform engineers, and SREs to improve deployment velocity, reliability, and operational excellence.

What you'll be doing

  • Architect, implement, and maintain infrastructure using Terraform and other IaC patterns.
  • Build and run configuration management and automation using Ansible.
  • Design, deploy, and operate Kubernetes clusters (including cluster lifecycle, upgrades, networking, and storage).
  • Maintain and improve logging and observability with the ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash/Beats, Kibana) and integrate with Prometheus/Grafana dashboards and alerting.
  • Operate and optimize Linux servers across cloud and on-prem environments (RHEL/CentOS/Ubuntu).
  • Design and manage virtualization platforms (e.g., VMware, KVM, or similar), including VM lifecycle, templates, and networking.
  • Implement CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation (Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, or similar).
  • Define and implement monitoring, alerting, and SLO/SLI workflows.
  • Implement secure secrets management and authentication patterns (Vault, AWS KMS, Kubernetes Secrets best practices).
  • Implement backup, DR plans, and capacity planning.
  • Troubleshoot production issues, lead post-incident reviews, and drive continuous improvement.

What you'll bring along

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
  • Minimum 5+ years in infrastructure/DevOps or related roles
  • Deep experience with Linux administration and troubleshooting.
  • Proven hands-on experience with the ELK Stack (deployment, scaling, index management, Kibana dashboards).
  • Sble (playbooks, roles, inventories).
  • Operational experience with Kubernetes (strong automation experience with Ansicluster setup, Helm charts/operators, networking CNI, RBAC).
  • Infrastructure as code experience using Terraform (modules, state backends, CI integration).
  • Experience with virtualization technologies (e.g., VMware, KVM, or Hyper-V).
  • Monitoring and observability experience with Prometheus (alerting rules, exporters) and Grafana (dashboards, alerts).
  • Familiarity with container tooling (Docker, container registries) and orchestration patterns.
  • Solid scripting skills (Bash, Python, or Go).
  • Experience with CI/CD systems and Git-based workflows.
  • Excellent command of both spoken and written English