Hybrid SRE Engineer — Kubernetes, Observability & Cloud

Wafx; Porto; Hybrid; EUR 40,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Wafx is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer in Porto, offering a hybrid work arrangement with 2 days in the office. The role targets mid-level professionals with strong SRE foundations and hands-on experience in cloud-native platforms, production operations, and automation.

You will work across incident response, monitoring, and CI/CD pipelines, collaborating with Development, Infrastructure, and Security teams to ensure service reliability and compliance with agile workflows.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 4 years of professional experience in SRE, Systems Engineering, Operations, DevOps, or Production Support roles.
• Experience working in production and operational environments, including on-call support.
• Strong incident response and troubleshooting skills in high-availability systems.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, including Development, Infrastructure, and Security.
• Experience following structured incident, problem, and change management processes.
• Comfortable working in Agile and Kanban environments.

Responsibilities

• Maintain availability, performance, and reliability of customer-facing services.
• Respond to incidents with structured runbooks and post-incident reviews.
• Collaborate with Development, Infrastructure, and Security teams.
• Implement automation and observability to reduce toil.

Skills

GitHub Actions

Infrastructure as Code

Linux systems

Networking basics

Observability

Security scanning

SRE principles

Job description

Wafx is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer in Porto, offering a hybrid work arrangement with 2 days in the office. The role targets mid-level professionals with strong SRE foundations and hands-on experience in cloud-native platforms, production operations, and automation.

You will work across incident response, monitoring, and CI/CD pipelines, collaborating with Development, Infrastructure, and Security teams to ensure service reliability and compliance with agile workflows.