Cloud Engineer

Quick Facts

• Role: Cloud Engineer

• Work model: Hybrid (2x per week) in Lisbon (Pq das Nações)

Description

Build and maintain cloud infrastructure to support reliable application operations, automate software delivery, and improve platform capabilities. You will own infrastructure changes from planning through deployment and ongoing support, working closely with development teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable, reliable, and secure platform infrastructure

• Implement and manage CI/CD pipelines to automate software delivery

• Collaborate with development, QA, and operations teams to streamline workflows and improve productivity

• Monitor and optimize system performance to ensure high availability and reliability

• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation

• Implement and manage container orchestration platforms (Kubernetes or Docker Swarm)

• Apply security best practices across all platform components

• Troubleshoot and resolve issues in development, test, and production environments

• Stay current with industry trends and improve platform capabilities

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

• 3+ years of hands-on experience in similar cloud/platform responsibilities

• Fluent English (C1) (mandatory)

• Fluent French (nice to have)

• Ownership and clear technical communication

• Practical cloud experience on GCP or AWS (compute, networking, IAM, storage)

• Experience with Git and CI/CD automation (GitHub Actions or equivalent), including rollback procedures

• Experience with Terraform (reusable modules and infrastructure change management via version control/CI/CD)

• Experience building and maintaining Docker images and deploying to Kubernetes (troubleshoot workloads, configuration, networking)

• Linux administration with Bash or Python scripting for automation and issue diagnosis

• Monitoring/observability setup (metrics, logs, dashboards, actionable alerts) and incident investigation

• Security knowledge including least-privilege access, secrets management, encryption, and KMS

• Familiarity with Jira and Confluence for tracking work and maintaining documentation

• Experience working in Agile and/or DevOps teams (Scrum practices)

Benefits

Hybrid work (2x per week) in Lisbon (Pq das Nações).