Senior DevOps Engineer - Remote (Portugal) with Kubernetes

Southend Pharmacy; Portugal; Remote; EUR 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid time off

EOR contract

quarterly bonuses

Job summary

The Senior DevOps Engineer will play a key role in scaling and securing Allia Health Group’s cloud infrastructure and operations. Reporting to the Principal Cloud & Security Ops Engineer, this role focuses on automation, observability, and operational resilience across production systems.

The successful candidate will ensure high availability, performance, and security of services, while mentoring engineers and promoting modern DevOps practices.

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science, Cloud Computing or related field.
• 4–7 years in DevOps/InfraOps or cloud engineering roles.
• Strong experience with Google Cloud (AWS/Azure acceptable).
• Hands-on expertise with Kubernetes, Docker, and container orchestration.
• Proficiency with IaC tools (Terraform, Ansible, or equivalents).
• Experience managing CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or equivalents).
• Strong background in observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack).
• Familiarity with networking fundamentals, load balancing, and secure configurations
• Hands-on experience with incident response and system troubleshooting.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and manage CI/CD pipelines with integrated security controls.
• Build and maintain infrastructure using Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Ansible, or equivalents).
• Oversee containerized environments with Kubernetes and Docker in production.
• Implement observability tools for monitoring, alerting, and logging.
• Optimize cloud infrastructure for scalability, performance, and cost efficiency.
• Automate repetitive operational tasks to improve reliability and reduce downtime.
• Collaborate with development teams to embed DevOps best practices across the stack.
• Participate in on-call rotations and incident response to ensure operational continuity.

Skills

Google Cloud

Kubernetes

Docker

CI/CD pipelines

Observability tools

IaC

Networking basics

Incident response

Education

BSc or MSc in Computer Science/Cloud Computing

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK stack

Load balancing

Job description

The Senior DevOps Engineer will play a key role in scaling and securing Allia Health Group’s cloud infrastructure and operations. Reporting to the Principal Cloud & Security Ops Engineer, this role focuses on automation, observability, and operational resilience across production systems.

The successful candidate will ensure high availability, performance, and security of services, while mentoring engineers and promoting modern DevOps practices.