DevOps Engineer – AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Portugal.

📋 Description

• Oversee and enhance production infrastructure hosted on AWS

• Provide support for AWS services such as ECS/EKS, EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, CloudWatch, and VPC

• Create and sustain CI/CD pipelines utilizing GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or similar tools

• Manage containerized workloads utilizing Docker and Kubernetes or AWS ECS

• Design and uphold Infrastructure as Code through Terraform, AWS CDK, or CloudFormation

• Offer support for production PostgreSQL and/or MySQL databases

• Enhance monitoring, logging, alerting, and overall system observability

• Diagnose infrastructure, deployment, and production reliability challenges

• Automate operational tasks through scripting

• Collaborate with developers on deployment, infrastructure, and release processes

• Recognize opportunities to enhance infrastructure reliability, scalability, and cost-effectiveness

⛳️ Requirements

• Minimum of 3 years of professional experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, Cloud Engineering, or SRE

• Solid hands-on experience with AWS, including ECS/EKS, EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, CloudWatch, and VPC

• Proficient scripting skills in Bash

• Professional experience with at least one of Python 3.x or TypeScript 5.x

• Experience in building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, preferably with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or comparable platforms

• Strong expertise in Docker

• Familiarity with Kubernetes and/or AWS ECS for production environments

• Experience in Infrastructure as Code using Terraform 1.x, AWS CDK, or CloudFormation

• Background in managing production databases such as PostgreSQL and/or MySQL

• Experience with monitoring, logging, and observability tools such as AWS CloudWatch, Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, or Sentry

• Proficient with Git and collaborative software development practices

• Ability to work autonomously and take ownership of infrastructure-related responsibilities

• Comfortable in a dynamic startup setting with minimal bureaucracy and significant autonomy

• Required to have English C1 or equivalent professional fluency

• Must reside in Europe and be able to work effectively within European working hours

• Availability for around 20 hours per week, with some flexibility to adjust hours based on project demands

• Open to a temporary engagement anticipated to last approximately 3–5 months

🏝️ Benefits

• Part-time temporary engagement lasting approximately 3–5 months

• Flexible working hours, with around 20 hours per week and the potential to adjust hours based on project needs

• Fully remote position available within Europe