Senior Observability Engineer & Platform Lead (Hybrid)

Accenture PLC; Lisboa; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Life Insurance and Pension Plan

Free medical services at the office

Wellness programs

Employee Share Purchase Plan

Personalized training platforms (Udemy

Pluralsight Platforms

Flex-ability program

Special banking conditions

Hybrid working model

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a Senior Observability & Platform Engineer in Lisbon, Portugal, to design, build, and evolve observability solutions across Mainframe, Open Systems, and Container platforms. You will lead monitoring strategy, automation, and cross-team collaboration to improve reliability and observability maturity.

You will work with Elastic Stack, OpenTelemetry, and CI/CD tools, mentoring peers and driving value-driven roadmaps in a hybrid environment.

Qualifications

• University degree in Computer Science, Engineering or comparable technical field.
• 5-10 years of hands-on experience in IT environments with observability, platform engineering, DevOps practices, and production support.
• Proven track record in Agile delivery models and incident/release management.
• Cross-team coordination, stakeholder communication, and effort estimation.
• OS & Infrastructure knowledge: Linux and Windows fundamentals; Mainframe knowledge is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, maintain, support, and evolve observability solutions and platforms using Elastic Stack and OpenTelemetry.
• Drive observability practices and implement monitoring, logging, and tracing across platforms.
• Ensure performance, data quality, retention policies, lifecycle management and secure access control.
• Collaborate with development, architecture, and operations teams to embed observability and DevOps practices.
• Lead production troubleshooting, RCA, incident handling, and release execution.
• Coach and mentor team members to promote observability culture.

Education

University degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

Elastic Stack

OpenTelemetry

CI/CD tools

Bitbucket, Git, Jenkins

Docker, Kubernetes

Job description

Accenture is seeking a Senior Observability & Platform Engineer in Lisbon, Portugal, to design, build, and evolve observability solutions across Mainframe, Open Systems, and Container platforms. You will lead monitoring strategy, automation, and cross-team collaboration to improve reliability and observability maturity.

You will work with Elastic Stack, OpenTelemetry, and CI/CD tools, mentoring peers and driving value-driven roadmaps in a hybrid environment.