Senior DevOps Engineer - Remote (Portugal) | AWS & Kubernetes

Lively; United States; Remote; USD 89,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Medical, dental, vision coverage

HSA and FSA

401k plan

Flexible vacation

Parental leave

Job summary

Lively is a remote-first company with a Seattle/startup vibe, seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer. You will own AWS infrastructure and Kubernetes operations, implement Terraform and GitOps pipelines, and drive observability, security, and disaster‑recovery initiatives across US and Europe.

The role requires collaboration with cross‑functional teams and strong English communication. Applicants must be legally authorized to work in Portugal.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in DevOps, SRE or platform engineering roles.
• Strong AWS experience (VPC, IAM, EKS, RDS, EC2, S3).
• Production experience with Terraform, Kubernetes, Helm and ArgoCD (or similar GitOps tooling).
• CI/CD with GitHub Actions or equivalent.
• Solid Linux and scripting skills (Bash, plus Python, TypeScript or Go).
• Experience with monitoring, alerting and incident response.
• Security‑first mindset; fintech, healthcare or PCI experience is a plus.
• Excellent written and spoken English; overlap US time zones.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and operate AWS infrastructure with Terraform across accounts and environments.
• Operate and upgrade production EKS clusters; manage workloads with Helm and ArgoCD (GitOps).
• Improve GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines and self-hosted runner fleet.
• Own observability (Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, OpenTelemetry) and participate in on-call rotation.
• Drive security and compliance work: vulnerability remediation, runtime security, access controls and PCI/SOC 2 evidence.
• Lead resilience initiatives such as multi-region disaster recovery and data replication.
• Partner with engineering, data and security teams to ship fast and safe.
• Write clear docs and runbooks, and mentor others on infrastructure best practices.

Skills

AWS

Terraform

Kubernetes

ArgoCD

GitHub Actions

Linux scripting

Monitoring

Security

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Helm

ArgoCD

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

Grafana

GitHub Actions

Job description

Lively is a remote-first company with a Seattle/startup vibe, seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer. You will own AWS infrastructure and Kubernetes operations, implement Terraform and GitOps pipelines, and drive observability, security, and disaster‑recovery initiatives across US and Europe.

The role requires collaboration with cross‑functional teams and strong English communication. Applicants must be legally authorized to work in Portugal.