DevOps & Platform Engineer: AWS, Kafka & CI/CD

Decskill; Portugal; On-site; EUR 40,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Decskill, an IT consulting company with 10+ years in the market, is growing and seeking talented DevOps/Platform/Data professionals. Based in Portugal, Decskill combines local culture with global reach, offering international context and long-term career opportunities.

You’ll work with 800+ professionals across Lisbon, Porto, and Madrid, collaborating with Development and Operations teams on impactful technology initiatives. We value curiosity, commitment, and real impact.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, Cloud Engineering or Data Engineering environments.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS, particularly EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, IAM and CloudWatch.
• Good programming/scripting skills in Python and/or Bash/Zsh, particularly for automation and infrastructure tooling.
• Experience developing automation scripts involving REST APIs, CLI tools, file processing and data transformation.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, using GitLab CI, Jenkins, GitHub Actions or similar tools.
• Strong knowledge of Git, including branching workflows, merge requests and CI/CD integration.
• Basic knowledge or practical experience with Apache Kafka or event-streaming platforms, including topics, producers and consumers.
• Experience supporting and troubleshooting cloud/platform environments.
• Good understanding of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and cloud automation.
• Good communication skills and ability to collaborate with both Development and Operations teams.

Skills

DevOps

Platform Engineering

Cloud Engineering

Data Engineering

Communication skills

Team collaboration

Automation mindset

Tools

AWS

Python

Bash

REST APIs

CI/CD

Git

Kafka

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform

Kubernetes

SQL

JSON/XML

Snowflake

AWS Lambda

ECS/Fargate

Job description

Decskill, an IT consulting company with 10+ years in the market, is growing and seeking talented DevOps/Platform/Data professionals. Based in Portugal, Decskill combines local culture with global reach, offering international context and long-term career opportunities.

You’ll work with 800+ professionals across Lisbon, Porto, and Madrid, collaborating with Development and Operations teams on impactful technology initiatives. We value curiosity, commitment, and real impact.