Junior Observability Engineer - Site Reliability Engineer

La Redoute; Viseu; Hybrid; EUR 35,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working hours

Remote work options

Modern observability technologies

Technical ownership

Job summary

La Redoute seeks a Junior Site Reliability Engineer with strong observability expertise to join our team in Leiria, Portugal. You will help build and scale our new observability stack, focusing on performance, reliability, and cost efficiency.

You will work with Grafana Stack components and OpenTelemetry, contributing to automation and a platform mindset. Fluency in English is required, and a passion for ownership and proactive problem-solving is essential.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience as an SRE/Observability Engineer or equivalent.
• Hands-on with OpenTelemetry or similar instrumentation tools.
• Knowledge of Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, and ArgoCD; Java development experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain observability solutions across metrics, logs, traces, and RUM.
• Build reliable alerting and monitoring pipelines based on SLOs/SLAs.
• Ensure health of observability data flows from instrumentation to dashboards.
• Collaborate with development and operations to embed observability by design.
• Promote best practices and standards for observability across the organization.
• Support modernization of legacy monitoring and alerting; optimize observability costs.

Skills

SRE experience

OpenTelemetry

Kubernetes

Helm

Terraform

ArgoCD

Java

Observability

English

Tools

Grafana Cloud

Tempo

Loki

Mimir

Alloy

OpenTelemetry

Zabbix

Job description

Do you want a job that matches your ambition and your lifestyle? Read on to discover the profile we're looking for! From its beginnings as a wool mill, La Redoute is a French brand that has forged unique relationships with its customers for the past 180 years – yesterday through its catalogue, today on the web. We are a mainly digital player, selling fashion as well as home decoration.

About the Role

We are looking for a Junior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with strong expertise in Observability Engineering to join our team at La Redoute. This role is pivotal to ensuring the reliability, visibility, and performance of our platforms and services. The ideal candidate will have hands‑on experience with the Grafana Stack (Tempo, Loki, Mimir, Alloy), knowledge in Java development, a strong SRE mindset, and a passion for automation, scalability, and ownership. You'll be joining a motivated, cross‑functional team responsible for implementing and scaling our new observability stack that is being built to be a platform for observability for the whole company. Your contributions will directly impact system performance, user experience, and operational cost efficiency.

Responsibilities

Design, implement, and maintain observability solutions covering metrics, logs, traces, and RUM. Work with tools such as Grafana Cloud, Tempo, Loki, Mimir, Alloy, OpenTelemetry, and Zabbix. Build reliable alerting and monitoring pipelines based on SLOs/SLAs, focusing on low‑maintenance automation. Ensure the health and integrity of observability data flows from instrumentation to dashboards. Collaborate with development and operations teams to embed observability by design into the software lifecycle. Define and promote best practices and standards for observability across the organization. Support the modernization of observability by replacing and evolving legacy monitoring and alerting solutions. Monitor observability‑related costs and contribute to FinOps efforts by identifying optimisation opportunities.

Requirements

Must‑have: 3+ years of experience as an SRE, Observability Engineer, or equivalent role. Practical experience with OpenTelemetry, or similar instrumentation tools. Knowledge in Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, and ArgoCD. Experience designing and managing telemetry pipelines (metrics/logs/traces), exporters, and sidecars. Expertise in performance monitoring, alerting, dashboarding, and root cause analysis. Knowledge in Java development and applications instrumentation Product‑oriented mindset with a bias for automation and a "you build it, you run it" culture Fluency in English. Nice‑to‑have: Knowledge of APM and distributed tracing solutions. Experience with FinOps practices applied to observability. Experience with Cloud environments (Azure preferred) Contributions to open‑source observability tools.

What We Offer

High‑impact role in a leading e‑commerce company undergoing digital transformation. Collaborative team and technical ownership. Flexible working hours and remote work options. Opportunity to work with modern observability technologies. Influence in architectural decisions and long‑term platform strategy.

Location

Junior Observability Engineer - Site Reliability Engineer Leiria, Portuguese Republic, PT