Sr DevOps Engineer

Liferay, Inc.; Recife; Presencial; BRL 180.000 - 260.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Competitive benefits

Collaborative culture

Open-source leadership

Descripción de la vacante

Liferay is seeking a Cloud Platform/SRE specialist to help build and operate a scalable, secure cloud platform powering SaaS/PaaS for customers worldwide. You will work on Kubernetes-based infrastructure, automate release pipelines, and enhance observability across global systems.

You will mentor developers, collaborate with SRE and support teams, and advance security and reliability in a 24x7 production environment.

Formación

• BS in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent experience.
• Experience running and operating Kubernetes on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).
• Experience in writing Kubernetes artifacts using Helm.
• Experience in Continuous Delivery processes of Kubernetes applications with GitOps using ArgoCD.
• Solid experience with Docker and Terraform, Terragrunt and Atlantis.
• Strong experience running and maintaining a 24x7 production environment.
• Experience scripting in shell or Go.
• Experience operating large-scale distributed systems (cloud).
• Knowledge of Networking, VPN (IPSec with IKEv2).
• Strong communication and team player skills.
• Comfortable with Agile practices and Kanban.
• Experience with Jira and Confluence.
• Linux architecture and troubleshooting.
• OKR methodology experience.

Responsabilidades

• Define and drive the technology vision for our Cloud infrastructure.
• Promote DevOps culture and collaboration across teams.
• Conduct R&D on cloud infrastructure technologies (K8s operators, service mesh).
• Define and implement next versions of global Cloud architecture.
• Collaborate with Cloud SRE and support to build tooling, monitoring, and automation.
• Close security gaps mapped by InfoSec/SecOps.
• Evolve infrastructure management processes and tools.
• Support technical teams and enablement across domains.
• Architect and implement automated release processes.
• Monitor performance, security, and observability; improve alerts.
• Manage upgrades and patches in Cloud ecosystem.
• Provide troubleshooting for cloud environments and mentor developers.
• Create and maintain architectural and security documentation.

Conocimientos

Kubernetes

Linux/Unix

Networking

Docker

Terraform/Terragrunt/Atlantis

Helm

GitOps/ArgoCD

CI/CD

SRE/24x7 ops

Scripting (shell, Go)

Public cloud

Kanban/JIRA

Confluence

Educación

BS in Computer Science/Engineering

Herramientas

Kubernetes

Helm

ArgoCD

Docker

Terraform

Terragrunt

Atlantis

Git

Jenkins

Descripción del empleo

About Liferay

Liferay is a uniquely profitable B2B enterprise software company with 1,000+ fiery-eyed employees all across Europe, the Americas, the Middle East, Asia, and Africa. As a renowned provider of enterprise open source technologies, we have been recognized by Gartner for empowering businesses around the world to solve complex digital challenges. Liferay’s all-in-one platform unites Liferay DXP with our cloud platform capabilities, built-in analytics, and commerce functionality, reducing time to market and accelerating innovation. Our customer roster includes global companies such as Airbus, US Bank, Honda, and Desjardins.

But we don’t just make awesome software, we are also fueled by a greater-than-profit vision. By building a vibrant business, making technology useful, and investing in communities, we make it possible for people to reach their full potential to serve others. This commitment extends beyond our product; Liferay donates 10% of our profits to charities around the world. Oh, we’re also self-funded which gives us the freedom to work on whatever we think brings the most value to customers and communities in the long run!

About You and this Role

You're a problem-solver who thrives in a customer-centric environment. You don't just focus on operations—you love running real-world software and systems. You bring deep experience in distributed systems, Linux/Unix design, networking, and site reliability engineering. Proactive and communicative, you constantly look for ways to improve processes and take pride in delivering top-tier work. You’re passionate about DevOps culture, process automation, cloud tech, and container orchestration. You love empowering others by building tools that make deploying and scaling applications on our Cloud platform seamless, secure, and compliant.

Join us at an exciting stage to help build a scalable, secure, and high-performing cloud platform powered by Kubernetes. Supporting Liferay customer systems globally across SaaS and PaaS, our mission is to build the next-generation cloud-native infrastructure. As container platforms continue to explode in popularity, our team sits at the forefront of this transition. If you’re ready to help shape our hybrid container platform, apply today!

Key Objectives

• Help drive the technology vision for our Cloud infrastructure;
• Help strengthen the adoption of DevOps culture of collaboration through empowerment;
• Conduct R&D on Cloud infrastructure technologies (e.g. k8s operators, service mesh, etc.);
• Work on defining and implementing the next versions of our global Cloud architecture;
• Collaborate with our Cloud SRE and support teams in defining/implementing tooling, automating, monitoring, alerting, troubleshooting and similar code and processes;
• Close security gaps mapped by our InfoSec and SecOps teams;
• Evolve our internal processes and codebases of infrastructure management
  
  • This includes adopting new tools, methodologies or practices to reduce effort;
• Support technical teams in a collaborative, through enablement;
• Architect and implement release processes in an automated manner;
• Monitor system performance, security, and functionality
  
  • Evolve observability and alerting tools to reduce this effort;
• Manage upgrades and patches for systems in our Cloud ecosystem
• Help with tickets escalated via our Cloud Customer Care and Support teams;
• Create and maintain architectural, security and other documentation as needed for each system supported;
  
  • Brief documentation used in README files;
  • Deeper documentation with architectural detailing and decisions;
  • Technical diagrams
• Provide technical support to include troubleshooting user operating problems, application problems, system configuration issues and malfunctions, and network operating problems in our Cloud environments;
• Mentor aspiring developers on the team, sharing knowledge and best practices.

Required Qualifications

• BS in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent experience;
• Experience running and operating Kubernetes on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE);
• Experience in writing Kubernetes artifacts using Helm;
• Experience in Continuous Delivery processes of Kubernetes applications with GitOps practices using ArgoCD;
• Solid experience with Docker and Terraform, Terragrunt and Atlantis;
• Strong experience running and maintaining a 24x7 production environment;
• Experience scripting in one of the languages used by system engineers (shell, golang, etc).;
• Experience operating large-scale distributed systems (preferably running on public cloud);
• Knowledge of Networking, VPN (IPSec with IKEv2), and experience identifying and solving network issues;
• Strong communication and team player skills;
• Comfortable with Agile practices for delivering iterative solutions to the business;
• Experience with Kanban methodology and JIRA;
• Build and maintain a solid knowledge base usable by different teams, technical and otherwise;
• Experience using Confluence;
• Solid knowledge in Linux architecture and troubleshooting;
• Experience working with Objective Key Results (OKRs) methodology;
• Strong feedback skills;
• Both receiving and providing feedback in 1:1 meetings.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with at least one of the following managed Kubernetes services:
  • Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
  • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
  • Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
  • RedHat OpenShift Kubernetes Service (ROKS)
• Experience in automating development processes and environments;
• Experience implementing full CI/CD pipelines;
• Experience with Kubernetes-based projects, like cert-manager, service meshes (istio.io or linkerd.io), storage solutions;
• Experience with Linux, MySQL, Nginx, Tomcat, Git, Jenkins;
• Any of the following certifications is a plus:
  
  • Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect;
  • Google Cloud Certified Professional DevOps Engineer;
  • Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Security Engineer;
  • Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Network Engineer.

What We Offer

• Salary package w/ competitive benefits according to qualifications and experience
  Opportunities to take responsibility, grow professionally, and Stay Nerdy
• A positive and collaborative work culture
• Working at a leading open-source company

Equal Opportunities Employer - Statement

Liferay is committed to the equal treatment of all candidates, customers and employees and to fostering a culture of dignity at work. Our operating procedure provides for equal opportunities in recruitment and employment with the aim to eliminate discrimination against any job applicant or employee on the basis of race, age, sexual orientation, gender, religion or beliefs, marital or civil partnerships status, family or dependency status, disability, pregnancy and maternity or membership of a traveling community.