Junior Elastic Stack & Observability Engineer

Accenture Portugal; Lisboa; Hybrid; EUR 26,000 - 38,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Pension plan

Hybrid working model

Training platforms access

Job summary

Accenture Portugal is hiring a junior Elasticsearch & Observability Engineer to support and deploy the Elastic Stack across multi-platform environments. The role includes routine operational tasks, health checks, basic troubleshooting, and assisting in onboarding applications to the observability platform.

You will work under guidance, with a focus on learning Elastic Stack components, basic monitoring, and incident handling while adhering to CI/CD practices and security standards.

Qualifications

• University degree in CS/Engineering or equivalent.
• 0–2 years in IT environments, logging, and monitoring.
• Basic understanding of Agile and ITIL/incident processes.
• Foundational OS knowledge (Linux/Windows) and core metrics.

Responsibilities

• Assist in maintaining Elastic Stack components (Beats, Elastic Agents, Logstash, Elasticsearch, Kibana).
• Run predefined procedures for platform health monitoring and alert checks.
• Support onboarding of applications onto the observability platform.
• Configure basic monitoring, dashboards, log collection, and alerting.
• Participate in routine releases and incident handling under guidance.
• Follow CI/CD governance and coding standards.
• Document operational activities and ticket resolutions accurately.
• Collaborate with team and stakeholders, communicating progress.

Skills

Observability concepts

Team collaboration

English proficiency

Willingness to learn

Education

University degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

Elasticsearch

Kibana

Logstash

Beats/Elastic Agents

OpenTelemetry

Git

CI/CD

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Accenture Portugal is hiring a junior Elasticsearch & Observability Engineer to support and deploy the Elastic Stack across multi-platform environments. The role includes routine operational tasks, health checks, basic troubleshooting, and assisting in onboarding applications to the observability platform.

You will work under guidance, with a focus on learning Elastic Stack components, basic monitoring, and incident handling while adhering to CI/CD practices and security standards.