Senior Platform DevOps Engineer (m/f)

BERD - Bridge Engineering Research & Design; Matosinhos; Presencial; EUR 85 000 - 125 000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

BERD is a leading team in bridge construction tech, seeking a Senior Platform DevOps Engineer to own infrastructure, deployment, reliability, security and observability for a SaaS platform. The role combines software engineering with deep experience in Linux, cloud and container technologies in a senior, hands-on capacity.

You’ll work across AWS, bare-metal, Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker, and PostgreSQL environments to ensure high availability, performance and security.

Qualificações

• Strong Linux and production systems experience.
• Strong hands-on AWS | Hetzner experience.
• Strong Terraform experience.
• Strong Docker and containerisation experience.
• Strong PostgreSQL knowledge.
• Experience with PgBouncer and database connection pooling.
• Experience managing both bare-metal and cloud servers.
• Strong server performance tuning experience.
• Good understanding of Angular applications and build environments.
• Experience troubleshooting application code and runtime behaviour.
• Experience with CI/CD and deployment automation.
• Experience with monitoring and observability.
• Strong security awareness.
• Strong troubleshooting and root-cause analysis skills.
• Ability to work independently and take technical ownership.

Responsabilidades

• Manage Linux production servers.
• Operate both bare-metal and cloud infrastructure.
• Design, deploy, and manage infrastructure on AWS.
• Deploy, manage, scale, and troubleshoot Kubernetes (K8s).
• Build and maintain infrastructure using Terraform.
• Manage Docker and containerised environments.
• Maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
• Configure and optimise PostgreSQL and PgBouncer.
• Support and troubleshoot Baffle Shield database encryption environments.
• Troubleshoot frontend and build issues involving Angular and TypeScript.
• Manage NGINX, DNS, SSL/TLS, firewalls, VPNs, routing, and reverse proxies.
• Perform server and infrastructure performance tuning.
• Troubleshoot application and runtime performance.
• Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability.
• Improve infrastructure security and access control.
• Investigate production incidents and perform root-cause analysis.
• Manage backups, recovery, capacity planning, and infrastructure scaling.
• Automate repetitive operational and deployment processes.

Conhecimentos

Linux production

AWS

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

PgBouncer

Security

Observability

CI/CD

Performance tuning

Angular

Node.js

Networking

Ferramentas

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

AWS

PostgreSQL

PgBouncer

NGINX

Python

Descrição da oferta de emprego

BERD is one of the TOP 3 World Leaders in the field of bridge construction methods and solutions. Born in 2006, as a spin-off of the Faculty of Engineering of Porto University, BERD already participated in the construction of more than 20 bridges and viaducts in 5 continents. In 2016 BERD launched a new Business Unit, the Modular Bridge Solutions, that already supplied more than 150 Modular Bridges. Always focused on innovation, BERD is also working on a new R&D disruptive project.

JOB DESCRIPTION

We are looking for an experienced Senior Platform DevOps Engineer expertise to take technical ownership of the infrastructure, deployment, reliability, security, observability, and operational performance of our SaaS platform.

This is a senior, hands-on engineering role.

The successful candidate will have a strong software engineering background combined with deep experience in Linux, cloud infrastructure, bare-metal servers, AWS, networking, security, databases, containers, automation, Terraform, and Kubernetes.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Manage and troubleshoot Linux production servers
• Operate both bare-metal and cloud infrastructure
• Design, deploy, and manage infrastructure on AWS
• Deploy, manage, scale, and troubleshoot Kubernetes (K8s)
• Build and maintain infrastructure using Terraform
• Manage Docker and containerised environments
• Maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation
• Configure and optimise PostgreSQL and PgBouncer
• Support and troubleshoot Baffle Shield database encryption environments
• Troubleshoot frontend and build issues involving Angular and TypeScript
• Manage NGINX, DNS, SSL/TLS, firewalls, VPNs, routing, and reverse proxies
• Perform server and infrastructure performance tuning
• Troubleshoot application and runtime performance
• Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability
• Improve infrastructure security and access control
• Investigate production incidents and perform root-cause analysis
• Manage backups, recovery, capacity planning, and infrastructure scaling
• Automate repetitive operational and deployment processes

PERFORMANCE ENGINEERING

A significant part of this role involves production performance optimisation.

You should be comfortable analysing and tuning:

• CPU and memory utilisation
• Disk I/O and filesystem performance
• Network latency, throughput, and connections
• PgBouncer connection pooling
• Node.js memory, heap, runtime behaviour, and concurrency
• NGINX performance
• Kubernetes CPU, memory, scaling, and cluster capacity
• AWS compute, storage, networking, and service performance
• High-core-count and high-memory production servers
• Application and API performance

You should be able to determine whether a performance issue originates from the application, runtime, operating system, database, encryption layer, storage, network, cloud platform, container platform, or underlying infrastructure.

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE

• Strong Linux and production systems experience
• Strong hands-on AWS | HETZNER experience
• Strong hands-on Terraform experience
• Strong Docker and containerisation experience
• Strong PostgreSQL knowledge
• Experience with PgBouncer and database connection pooling
• Experience managing both bare-metal and cloud servers
• Strong server performance tuning experience
• Good understanding of Angular applications and build environments
• Experience troubleshooting application code and runtime behaviour
• Experience with CI/CD and deployment automation
• Experience with monitoring and observability
• Strong security awareness
• Strong troubleshooting and root-cause analysis skills
• Ability to work independently and take technical ownership

Experience with database encryption, proxy, or data security technologies would be highly valuable.

TECHNOLOGY STACK

Infrastructure & DevOps: Linux / Ubuntu, bare-metal servers, AWS, cloud servers, Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker, Hetzner Cloud & dedicated servers, PM2, NGINX, Cloudflare, GitHub,

Data & Security: PostgreSQL, PgBouncer, Baffle Shield, database proxies, encrypted database environments

Data & Automation: Kestra, Airflow, Superset, Python

THE ENGINEER WE’RE LOOKING FOR

We are looking for someone who enjoys solving real production problems and is comfortable moving between application code and infrastructure.

If an API becomes slow, a PostgreSQL connection pool is exhausted, an encrypted database connection is failing, a Kubernetes workload becomes unstable, a Node.js process consumes excessive memory, an Angular build fails, an AWS resource is misconfigured, a deployment breaks, or a server starts dropping connections, you should be comfortable investigating the problem across the entire stack until the root cause is understood and resolved.

We value engineers who focus on permanent fixes, reliability, performance, security, and automation, rather than temporary workarounds.

WHAT WE’RE OFFERING

We offer competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits, and opportunities for professional growth in a supportive and innovative work environment.