Middleware Operations Engineer - Redis

PrimeIT; Lisboa; Hybrid; EUR 13,000 - 22,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Food Allowance

Flex Benefits

Prime Academy

Prime Mobility

Prime Health

Job summary

PrimeIT is seeking a Senior Middleware Operations Engineer to operate and industrialize Redis services across development, testing and production in a hybrid Lisbon environment. You will own monitoring, incident response and automation using Ansible, Git, and scripting.

The ideal candidate has 3+ years in middleware or SRE, expert Redis administration (Sentinel, replication, failover), Linux and Docker experience, TLS and security, plus strong documentation and collaboration with CAB/PVC

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in middleware, platform, SRE or production operations in critical environments.
• Expert-level Redis administration skills covering Sentinel, replication, failover and recovery.
• Strong expertise in Redis performance, memory, persistence, disk and capacity troubleshooting.
• Strong Linux and Docker/container administration skills.
• Practical experience with TLS, authentication, ACLs, certificates and secure connectivity.
• Experience with monitoring and observability for Redis availability and health.
• Practical automation experience with Ansible, Git and Shell or Python.
• Strong incident, problem management and service restoration experience in critical RUN environments.
• Experience preparing controlled changes, rollback plans and implementation evidence.
• Ability to work autonomously in L2/L3 support, communicate service impact and coordinate escalations.
• Strong operational documentation and handover practices.
• English at C1 level.

Responsibilities

• Operate Redis platforms across development, simulation, UAT and production environments.
• Manage health checks, configuration, lifecycle activities, patching and recovery.
• Design, deploy and support highly available Redis Sentinel services.
• Contribute to evaluating Redis Cluster and options for capacity, resilience and security.
• Own monitoring for quorum, replication, failover, memory, persistence, disk usage, latency and connections.
• Provide L2/L3 incident response, root-cause analysis and remediation.
• Automate installation, configuration, validation and recurring tasks using Ansible, Docker/container tooling, Git and scripts.
• Apply security controls covering TLS, authentication, ACLs, key-prefix namespaces, secrets and certificates.
• Prepare changes, rollback plans, implementation evidence, runbooks and audit-ready documentation.
• Coordinate architecture standardization, onboarding and migration activities with relevant teams.

Skills

Redis Sentinel & Replication

Linux Administration

Docker/Containerization

TLS & Certificates

Monitoring & Observability

Ansible Automation

Git & Scripting

Incident & Problem Management

Change Management & Rollback

L2/L3 Support Autonomy

Job description

Senior Middleware Operations Engineer — Redis Platform

Imagine working at a company where your growth is supported every day, even from a distance. Where you are more than just a number: you are part of a constantly expanding team. We are more than 2,430 Primers around the world, and we want one more: YOU.

We are looking for a Senior Middleware Operations Engineer to join a challenging technology project, operating and industrializing Redis services for current and future application needs in a critical production environment.

• Operate Redis platforms across development, simulation, user acceptance testing and production environments.
• Manage health checks, configuration, lifecycle activities, patching and recovery.
• Design, deploy and support highly available Redis Sentinel services.
• Contribute to the evaluation of Redis Cluster and enterprise options according to capacity, resilience, security and support needs.
• Own monitoring for quorum, replication, synchronization, failover, memory, persistence, disk usage, latency and connections.
• Provide L2/L3 incident response, root-cause analysis and remediation.
• Automate installation, configuration, validation and recurring tasks using Ansible, Docker/container tooling, Git and scripts.
• Apply security controls covering TLS, authentication, ACLs, key-prefix namespaces, secrets and certificates.
• Prepare changes, rollback plans, implementation evidence, runbooks and audit-ready documentation, presenting changes to CAB/PVC when required.
• Coordinate architecture standardization, onboarding and migration activities with the relevant teams.

What we are looking for

• 3+ years of experience in middleware, platform, SRE or production operations in critical environments.
• Expert-level Redis administration skills covering Sentinel, replication, failover and recovery.
• Strong expertise in Redis performance, memory, persistence, disk and capacity troubleshooting.
• Strong Linux and Docker/container administration skills.
• Practical experience with TLS, authentication, ACLs, certificates and secure connectivity.
• Experience with monitoring and observability for Redis availability and health.
• Practical automation experience with Ansible, Git and Shell or Python.
• Strong incident, problem management and service restoration experience in critical RUN environments.
• Experience preparing controlled changes, rollback plans and implementation evidence.
• Ability to work autonomously in L2/L3 support, communicate service impact and coordinate escalations.
• Strong operational documentation and handover practices.
• English at C1 level.

Nice to have

• French at A1+ level.

Opportunity details

Location: Portugal — Lisbon

Experience: 3+ years of relevant experience.

Working model: Hybrid

Working hours: 09:00–18:00.

On-call: Required.

Salary Package & Benefits: €1,200 to €2,000 (salary base) + Food Allowance + Flex Benefits

What we offer

At PrimeIT, we want you to keep growing beyond your current project.

You will have access to Prime Academy, our internal mobility programme Prime Mobility and Prime Health, alongside continuous support from our team.

All of this within an international organization, with projects across different sectors and opportunities for technological and professional growth!