Site Reliability Engineer - Porto - 14/10/26

Wafx; Porto; Hybrid; EUR 40,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Wafx is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer in Porto, offering a hybrid work arrangement with 2 days in the office. The role targets mid-level professionals with strong SRE foundations and hands-on experience in cloud-native platforms, production operations, and automation.

You will work across incident response, monitoring, and CI/CD pipelines, collaborating with Development, Infrastructure, and Security teams to ensure service reliability and compliance with agile workflows.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 4 years of professional experience in SRE, Systems Engineering, Operations, DevOps, or Production Support roles.
• Experience working in production and operational environments, including on-call support.
• Strong incident response and troubleshooting skills in high-availability systems.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, including Development, Infrastructure, and Security.
• Experience following structured incident, problem, and change management processes.
• Comfortable working in Agile and Kanban environments.

Responsibilities

• Maintain availability, performance, and reliability of customer-facing services.
• Respond to incidents with structured runbooks and post-incident reviews.
• Collaborate with Development, Infrastructure, and Security teams.
• Implement automation and observability to reduce toil.

Skills

GitHub Actions

Infrastructure as Code

Linux systems

Networking basics

Observability

Security scanning

SRE principles

Job description

Site Reliability Engineer - Porto - 14/10/26

Country

PT Portugal

Location

Porto - Hybrid (2x/week in the office)

Mid-level

Work type

Hybrid

Imediato

1 year

Laptop provided

Yes

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with extensive experience in cloud-native platforms, production operations, and reliability engineering. The role focuses on ensuring the availability, performance, reliability, and resilience of customer-facing services through automation, observability, and modern SRE practices.

Requirements and qualifications

Professional Experience

Minimum of 4 years of professional experience in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Systems Engineering, Operations, DevOps, or Production Support roles.

Functional Skills

Experience working in production and operational environments, including on-call support.

Strong incident response and troubleshooting skills in high-availability systems.

Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, including Development, Infrastructure, and Security.

Experience following structured incident, problem, and change management processes.

Comfortable working in Agile and Kanban environments.

Technical Skills

Strong understanding of Site Reliability Engineering principles and production operations.

Experience with Linux-based systems and system troubleshooting.

Experience with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.

Hands-on experience with monitoring, logging, and observability tools including OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, and Splunk.

Senior-level experience with CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions.

Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation tools such as Terraform and Ansible.

Knowledge of security scanning tools and DevOps best practices.

Solid understanding of networking fundamentals and distributed systems.

Certifications

Preferred certifications include:

AWS Professional Certifications

Google Cloud Professional Certifications

DevOps Certifications

Required skills

• GitHub Actions · required
• Infrastructure as Code · required
• Linux-based systems · required
• Networking fundamentals · required
• Observability · required
• security scanning tools · required
• Site Reliability Engineering principles · required