Platform Reliability Engineer (Kubernetes/Linux) - Hybrid Porto (3 days/week office)

HumanIT Digital Consulting; Porto; Hybrid; EUR 55,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

HumanIT Digital Consulting is seeking a Senior Platform Reliability Engineer to join their Porto-based team on a hybrid model. You will own reliability of Kubernetes/Linux production platforms, improve observability, and participate in incident response across large-scale systems.

The role requires 5+ years in SRE/DevOps, strong Linux, Kubernetes, scripting in Python or Go, and experience with distributed systems and data stores.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience in SRE/DevOps/Platform Engineering or Backend Engineering.
• Strong Linux fundamentals and command-line proficiency.
• Hands-on production experience with Kubernetes covering workloads, networking, RBAC, observability and troubleshooting.
• Scripting in Python or Go.
• Solid grasp of distributed systems incl. APIs, messaging, caching, latency, throughput and failure modes.
• Production experience with at least one major datastore and understanding data impact on reliability.
• Networking and security fundamentals incl. TCP/IP, HTTP, DNS, TLS, firewalls, reverse proxies and identity.
• Experience designing observability (metrics, logs, tracing, alerting).
• Experience contributing to incident response and blameless postmortems.
• Experience working with operations or support teams.
• English B2 (Upper Intermediate) or higher.

Skills

SRE Experience

Linux fundamentals

Kubernetes

Python scripting

Go scripting

Distributed systems

Observability

Incident response

DevOps

English (B2)

Team collaboration

Datastore experience

Job description

Platform Reliability Engineer (Kubernetes/Linux) - Hybrid Porto (3 days/week office)

Job Openings Platform Reliability Engineer (Kubernetes/Linux) - Hybrid Porto (3 days/week office)

About the job Platform Reliability Engineer (Kubernetes/Linux) - Hybrid Porto (3 days/week office)

Platform Reliability Engineer (Kubernetes/Linux) - Hybrid Porto (3 days/week office)

ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY

We are looking for a Senior Platform Reliability Engineer to join a leading European telecommunications operator. You will help keep large-scale, business-critical production platforms reliable, observable and secure. This is a hands-on role with real ownership: you will work across infrastructure, distributed systems and operations, and shape how reliability is engineered, measured and improved.

PROJECT & CONTEXT

• Industry: Telecommunications, with high-traffic, high-availability production systems at scale
• Focus: Reliability of Kubernetes-based platforms, observability, incident response and automation
• Team setup: Close collaboration with engineering, operations and support teams. You will build tools and documentation that operations and support teams use day to day
• Work model: Hybrid, 2 days per week at the Porto office
• Location: Candidates must be based in Porto (any nationality)
• Language: English B2 (Upper Intermediate) minimum, for daily communication in an international environment

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR (Required)

• 5+ years of professional experience in SRE, DevOps, Platform Engineering or Backend Engineering, including time operating production systems at scale
• Strong Linux fundamentals and confidence on the command line
• Hands-on production experience with Kubernetes, covering workloads, networking, RBAC, observability and troubleshooting
• Scripting and automation in Python, Go or a similar language
• Solid grasp of distributed systems, including APIs, messaging, caching, latency, throughput and failure modes
• Production experience with at least one major datastore, and an understanding of how data affects reliability
• Networking and security fundamentals, including TCP/IP, HTTP, DNS, TLS, firewalls, reverse proxies and identity
• Experience designing useful observability (metrics, logs, tracing, alerting)
• Experience contributing to incident response and blameless postmortems
• Experience working alongside operations or support teams
• English B2 (Upper Intermediate) or higher

NICE TO HAVE (Preferred)

• Background in telecommunications or other high-availability, high-traffic environments
• Experience defining SLIs/SLOs and error budgets
• Experience building internal tooling and runbooks that improve on-call and support efficiency
• Exposure to infrastructure-as-code and GitOps practices