DevOps Engineer

Kaidon.ai; Lisboa; Hybrid; EUR 39,000 - 54,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Founding role

Hybrid work

Modern stack

Job summary

Kaidon.ai, a technology-focused consultancy, searches for a DevOps Engineer to join Lisbon-based operations in a hybrid setup. You’ll shape platform strategy, own deployment pipelines, and influence technical direction as the first infra engineer in Portugal.

You’ll collaborate with product and engineering teams, drive modernization with a modern stack (AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, GitHub Actions, GitOps), and help scale high-traffic AI-enabled products.

Qualifications

• Experience as DevOps or SRE in production environments.
• Strong automation and IaC skills.
• Experience with AWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD tooling.
• Professional English proficiency.

Responsibilities

• Coach and train dev teams in cloud architecture and IaC.
• Build resilient, scalable, secure, and cost-efficient infra.
• Maintain and improve deployment pipelines and processes.
• Design solutions meeting functional and technical needs; drive major technical decisions.
• Keep up with emerging tools and apply them to challenges.

Skills

DevOps experience

SRE experience

Strong communication

Collaborative

Continuous learner

Security mindset

English proficiency

Tools

AWS

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Kubernetes

Helm

GitOps

Job description

I am partnered with an innovative technology focussed consultancy as they are on the hunt for DevOps Engineers. They're partnering with a client to deliver generative AI experiences at scale, solving the reliability, performance and cost challenges that come with it. Few engineers have done this in production. You’ll shape the patterns, own the platform, and grow with people who back you.

The Role

You’ll work on a Kubernetes-based AWS platform with industrialised CI/CD, serving high-traffic products. You’ll work alongside product and engineering teams, shaping how they build, ship and run software. You’ll have real influence over technical direction and the autonomy to act on it, and you won’t be tucked away as a ticket-taker. As the first infrastructure engineer in Portugal, you’ll be a founding voice in a growing local community.

Key Responsibilities

• Coach and train development teams in modern ways of working, including cloud architecture, Infrastructure as Code and 12-Factor App principles.
• Help teams build resilient, scalable, secure and cost-efficient infrastructure.
• Maintain and continuously improve our services, deployment pipelines and processes.
• Design and build solutions that meet the functional and technical needs of customer, product and technical projects.
• Take part in major technical decisions and bring forward innovative ideas to improve platform and project performance.
• Keep up with emerging tools and approaches, and apply them to everyday challenges.
• Help grow infrastructure knowledge and practice in Portugal.
• Highly experienced within a DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering role.
• Autonomy and seniority: you’re someone we can trust to run with problems without close supervision.
• Deep AWS expertise, especially managed services.
• Strong hands-on experience with GitHub Actions (CI/CD) and Terraform (IaC).
• Hands-on Kubernetes experience: packaging and deploying with Helm and GitOps, tuning resources, autoscaling, networking, and debugging workloads end to end.
• A security-by-default mindset, including IAM and least privilege.
• A solid grasp of software engineering practices and architectural patterns (e.g. CQRS, DDD, microservices).
• Experience with automated testing and deployment pipelines in a high-scale environment.
• Professional English.

You’re also

• A clear communicator who can adapt your message for technical and non-technical audiences.
• A natural collaborator who thrives in cross-functional teams and adapts quickly.
• A continuous learner, customer-focused and passionate about quality and innovation.
• AI-aware: you’re excited by AI-assisted tools that streamline workflows, automate tasks and help you write better code. If you’re averse to AI, this may not be the right fit.

What’s on Offer

• Rate: up to €250 per day (around €60k per year)
• Location: Lisbon, hybrid (2 days a week in the office)
• A founding role with real ownership and visibility, and the chance to shape our presence in Portugal.
• A high-scale, modern stack: AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, GitHub Actions and GitOps.