Junior Observability Engineer: Elastic Stack & Monitoring

act digital; Lisboa; On-site; EUR 25,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

act digital is seeking a Junior Elasticsearch & Observability Engineer to join our team, supporting deployment, maintenance, and evolution of enterprise observability solutions across mainframe, open systems, and container platforms. You will work closely with experienced engineers to gain hands-on experience with the Elastic Stack and modern observability practices.

The role focuses on platform stability, monitoring, and onboarding initiatives, with opportunities to contribute to CI/CD,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent technical experience.
• Up to 2 years in IT operations, monitoring, or observability.
• English C1 mandatory; French/Dutch a plus.
• Foundational Linux/Windows and CLI knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Support Elastic Stack administration, maintenance, and enhancement.
• Execute operational procedures and health checks across environments.
• Assist onboarding of application services to the observability platform.
• Configure dashboards, log pipelines, monitoring, and alerting.
• Participate in releases and incident resolution under seniors.
• Contribute to coding standards, governance, and CI/CD practices.
• Document operational activities and platform updates.
• Collaborate with team members and stakeholders with progress updates.

Skills

Observability concepts

English proficiency (C1)

CI/CD basics

Linux/Windows basics

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or related field

Tools

Elastic Stack

Git

OpenTelemetry

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

act digital is seeking a Junior Elasticsearch & Observability Engineer to join our team, supporting deployment, maintenance, and evolution of enterprise observability solutions across mainframe, open systems, and container platforms. You will work closely with experienced engineers to gain hands-on experience with the Elastic Stack and modern observability practices.

The role focuses on platform stability, monitoring, and onboarding initiatives, with opportunities to contribute to CI/CD,