DevOps / ELK Engineer

We are looking for a Junior Elasticsearch & Observability Engineer to join our team and support the deployment, maintenance, and evolution of enterprise observability solutions across diverse environments, including Mainframe, Open Systems, and Container Platforms .

In this role, you will work closely with experienced engineers, gaining hands-on experience with the Elastic Stack and modern observability practices while contributing to platform stability, monitoring, and application onboarding initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the administration, maintenance, and enhancement of the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, Beats, and Elastic Agents).
• Execute operational procedures and runbooks for platform monitoring, health checks, routine maintenance, and alert validation across development, testing, and production environments.
• Assist application teams with onboarding and integrating their services into the observability platform.
• Configure and maintain dashboards, log collection pipelines, monitoring, and alerting solutions.
• Participate in software releases and incident resolution activities under the guidance of senior engineers.
• Contribute to the adoption of coding standards, governance processes, and CI/CD best practices.
• Maintain accurate documentation of operational activities, platform updates, and issue resolutions.
• Collaborate effectively with team members and stakeholders, providing regular updates on progress and activities.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical field (or equivalent practical experience).
• Up to 2 years of experience in IT operations, system administration, monitoring, or observability-related environments.
• Basic understanding of Agile methodologies and ITIL/incident management processes is considered an advantage.
• Foundational knowledge of Linux and/or Windows operating systems, including command-line usage, file systems, and system performance metrics (CPU, memory, and storage).
• Professional proficiency in English (C1 level), both written and spoken, is mandatory.
• French and/or Dutch language skills are a plus.

Technical Skills

• Understanding of core observability concepts, including logs, metrics, traces, and the Four Golden Signals .
• Knowledge of or strong interest in learning the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, Beats, Elastic Agents) and OpenTelemetry .
• Familiarity with version control systems such as Git and basic CI/CD concepts.
• Exposure to container technologies ( Docker , Kubernetes ) and REST APIs is advantageous.
• Basic understanding of IT security principles, including authentication and access management.
• Experience with collaboration and ticketing tools such as Jira, Confluence, ServiceNow, and Microsoft Office .