Junior ELK Engineer

At Accenture Digital Core, we help clients continuously innovate at speed and at scale, combining deep industry expertise with cutting-edge technology to deliver meaningful transformation. You will bring innovation, intelligence and experience together to shape robust, secure and scalable digital solutions.

This is a junior Elasticsearch & Observability Engineer role focused on supporting, maintaining, and assisting in the deployment of the Elasticsearch Stack and observability solutions across multi-platform environments (Mainframe, Open Systems, and Container platforms). This role operates as a structured executor within the team, performing routine operational tasks, platform health checks, basic troubleshooting, and supporting application onboarding under guidance.

What You'll Do

• Assist in maintaining, supporting, and extending Elastic Stack components (Beats, Elastic Agents, Logstash, Elasticsearch, Kibana);

• Execute predefined procedures and runbooks for platform health monitoring, routine maintenance, and alert checks across non-production and production environments;

• Support application teams during onboarding onto the observability platform;

• Assist in configuring basic monitoring, dashboards, log collection, and alerting;

• Participate in routine release execution and incident handling under the guidance of senior team members;

• Follow established coding standards, governance, and CI/CD practices;

• Document operational activities, updates, and ticket resolutions accurately;

• Collaborate closely with team members and communicate progress clearly within the team and with stakeholders.

What You'll Need

Qualifications

• University degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a comparable technical field (or equivalent initial experience);

• 0-2 years of hands-on experience or familiarity with IT environments, logging, and monitoring concepts;

• Basic understanding of Agile delivery principles and ITIL/incident management processes (is a plus);

• Foundational knowledge of Operating Systems: Linux and/or Windows basic commands, file systems, and core metrics (CPU, memory, storage).

Technical Skills

• Understanding of core Observability concepts (logs, metrics, traces, golden signals) — mandatory;

• Exposure to or willingness to learn the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, Beats, Elastic Agents) and OpenTelemetry;

• Basic knowledge of version control (Git) and CI/CD pipelines concepts;

• Basic understanding of Containers (Docker, Kubernetes) and APIs (REST) is a plus;

• Foundational awareness of IT Security principles (authentication, access management basics);

• Basic knowledge of collaboration and ticketing tools: Jira, Confluence, ServiceNow, MS Office.

Profile & Other Requirements

• Professional English C1 (spoken and written) — mandatory; French and/or Dutch is a plus;

• Strong team collaboration skills in distributed environments — mandatory;

• Continuous learning mindset and eagerness to grow technical expertise — mandatory;

• Structured problem-solving attitude, proactivity, and attention to detail;

• Ability to follow guidelines, ask clarifying questions, and escalate risks early;

• Willingness and availability for on-call support and scheduled overtime activities when required;

• Lisbon/Portugal-based — hybrid working model (CET alignment required).

Must own a valid work permit or EU/Schengen Space nationality to legally work in Portugal.

What We Offer

• Health insurance;

• Life Insurance and Pension Plan Programs;

• Free medical services at the office (Physician, Nutritionist, Psychologist);

• Wellness programs;

• Flexben Program (Support for Education, Kindergarten, Training, Technology, Health);

• Employee Share Purchase Plan;

• Personalized training paths and access to Udemy and Pluralsight Platforms;

• Flex-ability program (financial and flexible support for people with disabilities);

• Special banking conditions;

• Hybrid working model.

About Accenture Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us at www.accenture.com

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