Founding DevOps Engineer - AWS, Kubernetes, GitOps (Lisbon)

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

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.