Junior DevOps / ELK Engineer

Equação IT is a company focused on boosting technology and solid solutions through our expert consultants leading a high perspective and adding value to our customers with the purpose of providing optimization and business growth to our partners.

A junior Elasticsearch & Observability Engineer role focused on supporting, maintaining, and assisting in the deployment of the Elastic 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.

Key Responsibilities:

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.


Requirements:

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


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

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.

Duration: Long Term Contract.
Location: Lisbon
Work model: hybrid with at least 2 days at the office