Senior DevOps Engineer — GCP, Kubernetes, SRE

Devopsroles; Lisboa; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Aghanim in Lisbon, Portugal, seeks a Senior/Principal DevOps to own our cloud-only platform. Our services run on GCP, fronted by Cloudflare, with observability in Datadog and CI/CD via GitHub Actions. You will ensure SLA/SLO targets, scale rapidly, and optimize for cost as we grow to 10-50× traffic.

This hands-on role offers ownership, autonomy, and the chance to shape platform reliability, security posture, and developer experience across a growing global team.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering roles.
• Proven experience operating production SaaS infrastructure with SLA/SLO ownership.
• Strong expertise in GCP, Kubernetes (GKE), and Terraform IaC.
• Experience with Cloudflare, observability platforms (Datadog or similar), and modern CI/CD practices.
• Strong automation and scripting skills with a reliability-first mindset.
• Experience designing and operating scalable, high-availability distributed systems.
• Familiarity with SOC 2 / PCI-DSS audits and security architecture requirements.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve production infrastructure on GCP and Cloudflare.
• Ensure platform availability, performance, and reliability against SLA/SLO targets.
• Design and operate systems capable of handling rapid traffic spikes and high-load scenarios.
• Drive capacity planning, autoscaling, bottleneck removal, and resilience improvements.
• Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform (and Terragrunt where applicable).
• Own Kubernetes operations on GKE, including upgrades, scaling, and operational hardening.
• Maintain platform tooling, deployment infrastructure, and operational standards.
• Build and improve observability using Datadog, including monitoring, logging, and APM.
• Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and long-term reliability improvements.
• Reduce operational noise and improve detection of critical system issues.
• Operate core security tooling and coordinate remediation efforts across teams.
• Improve deployment reliability and developer experience through CI/CD automation and platform guardrails.
• Own infrastructure cost visibility, optimization, and FinOps initiatives.

Skills

GCP

Kubernetes

Terraform

Terragrunt

Cloudflare

Datadog

CI/CD

Scripting

SOC 2/PCI-DSS

Security architecture

Tools

GKE

Job description

Aghanim in Lisbon, Portugal, seeks a Senior/Principal DevOps to own our cloud-only platform. Our services run on GCP, fronted by Cloudflare, with observability in Datadog and CI/CD via GitHub Actions. You will ensure SLA/SLO targets, scale rapidly, and optimize for cost as we grow to 10-50× traffic.

This hands-on role offers ownership, autonomy, and the chance to shape platform reliability, security posture, and developer experience across a growing global team.