Senior DevOps Engineer – Kubernetes, GitOps

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

📋 Description

• Design, operate, and enhance production-grade Kubernetes platforms.

• Create and sustain Kubernetes workloads, manifests, Helm charts, Kustomize overlays, and deployment strategies.

• Implement and facilitate GitOps workflows utilizing Flux, Argo CD, or comparable tools.

• Optimize CI/CD pipelines to ensure reliable, repeatable, and secure application delivery.

• Collaborate with engineering teams to diagnose production issues across Kubernetes, networking, compute, storage, and application layers.

• Develop automation for infrastructure provisioning, deployment, monitoring, and incident response.

• Oversee cloud infrastructure operations across AWS, GCP, Windows, or hybrid environments.

• Manage Kubernetes networking, ingress, service mesh, DNS, TLS, secrets, and workload identity patterns.

• Champion Infrastructure as Code standards using Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation, or similar tools.

• Work alongside security teams to enhance container, cluster, secrets, and supply-chain security.

• Guide engineers on Kubernetes, DevOps, GitOps, and best practices for production operations.

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive hands-on experience with Kubernetes in production environments.

• In-depth knowledge of Kubernetes, including deployments, services, ingress, config maps, secrets, RBAC, network policies, probes, HPA, and storage.

• Strong experience in GitOps with Flux or Argo CD.

• Proven CI/CD experience using platforms such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, CircleCI, or similar.

• Familiarity with Helm and/or Kustomize.

• Solid Linux systems, networking, and troubleshooting skills.

• Experience with cloud infrastructure, ideally AWS, encompassing EKS, IAM, VPC, Route 53, ALB/NLB, S3, RDS, or CloudWatch.

• Experience in Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or similar tools.

• Proficient scripting skills in languages such as Bash, Python, Go, or similar.

• Experience with observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Datadog, New Relic, Better Stack, or comparable.

• Capability to troubleshoot complex production challenges across application, infrastructure, and networking layers.

• Excellent written communication skills, particularly for creating runbooks, architecture documentation, and operational guides.

• Preferred: Experience with Service Mesh, Secrets Management, Platform Engineering, multi-region architectures, High Availability and Disaster Recovery solutions, Microservices and Distributed Systems, Incident Management and Postmortem best practices, as well as SRE practices and SLO-based operations.

🏝️ Benefits

• A culture that emphasizes relentless performance.

• Competitive salary and benefits package.

• Health insurance coverage.

• Relocation assistance program.

• Flexibility for remote work / Work From Anywhere culture.

• Opportunities for professional development.

• Access to certification programs.

• Mentorship and talent development initiatives.

• Opportunities for internal mobility.

• Internship programs available.

• Engaging projects for leading global clients.

• An inclusive and supportive workplace environment.

• Emphasis on open communication.

• Regular team-building social events.

• Commitment to sustainable business practices focused on IT education, community empowerment, fair operating practices, environmental sustainability, and gender equality.