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September 2, 2026

Senior Infrastructure / DevOps Engineer

Senior • On-site

Lisbon, Portugal

This role is critical to the stability, reliability and continuous improvement of technology platforms, including mission-critical production systems. It combines infrastructure administration, DevOps practices, automation and continuous operations, with mandatory participation in a 24x7 on-call rotation (L2 support).

Key Responsibilities

On-Premises Infrastructure (Core Focus)

  • Operate, maintain and evolve on-premises infrastructure, ensuring stability, performance and high availability.
  • Administer virtualization environments based on Proxmox (KVM), including clusters, capacity planning and HA.
  • Manage storage systems (SAN/NAS), including performance, redundancy, backup and recovery.
  • Perform Linux systems administration, including hardening, patching, security and best practices.
  • Work with networking concepts such as IP networking, VLANs, basic routing and firewalls.

DevOps & Automation

  • Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration using Ansible and Infrastructure as Code principles.
  • Build, maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines.
  • Collaborate closely with development teams to improve deployment, reliability and troubleshooting processes.
  • Reduce manual operational tasks through automation and standardization.

Cloud Operations (Growth & Consolidation Phase)

  • Operate and support public cloud environments (AWS, Azure), primarily using IaaS services.
  • Work in hybrid environments (on-prem + cloud), ensuring integration, security and operational consistency.
  • Apply cloud best practices related to cost management, security and reliability.
  • Operate and support Kubernetes workloads, with a focus on day-to-day operations, networking, storage and troubleshooting.

Reliability, Operations & On-Call

  • Ensure high levels of availability, reliability and operational excellence.
  • Participate actively in a 24x7 on-call rotation (L2 support) for production systems.
  • Respond to incidents, perform root cause analysis and define corrective and preventive actions.
  • Implement and maintain solutions (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana) for monitoring, logging and metrics.

Collaboration & Documentation

  • Work closely with engineering and product teams in a multidisciplinary environment.
  • Create and maintain clear and practical documentation (runbooks, operational guides, handbooks).
  • Support onboarding and promote operational and infrastructure best practices.

Key Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience in infrastructure, systems, DevOps or similar roles.
  • Strong, hands-on experience with on-premises environments.
  • Solid experience with Proxmox (KVM).
  • Strong knowledge of Linux systems administration.
  • Proven experience using Ansible in production environments.
  • Good understanding of networking fundamentals (IP, routing, firewalls, VLANs).
  • Strong understanding of storage concepts and high-availability architectures.
  • Experience with CI/CD tools (GitLab CI, Jenkins or equivalent).
  • Experience with monitoring and observability stacks.
  • Scripting skills (Bash, Python or similar).
  • Experience with database administration (e.g. PostgreSQL, Oracle).
  • Hands-on experience with container technologies such as Docker.
  • Functional knowledge of Kubernetes, with an operational focus.
  • Experience with public cloud platforms (AWS and/or Azure).

Profile & Mindset

  • Strong operational mindset and sense of ownership.
  • Comfortable working with critical production systems.
  • Able to work autonomously and make technical decisions.
  • Clear interest in growing cloud skills, grounded in strong traditional infrastructure experience.
  • Practical, resilient and solution-oriented approach.
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills.
  • Professional proficiency in English (written and spoken).

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