Senior Cloud & DevOps Engineer (AWS / Kubernetes)

A Job? Or a Lifetime Experience? Start Yours Here! Our mission is to be a meaningful part of our people's careers. As we grow, so does our determination to offer the best experience to our employees and clients — and that’s exactly what drives us. We are a Portuguese technology consulting company with offices in Lisbon, Porto and Óbidos, and representations in Brazil and Tunisia. We have over 14 years of market expertise, and today we are a universe of around 500 people working on-site, remotely or in hybrid mode in projects across 20+ countries. We believe that great people make successful companies, and that’s why we stand for the appreciation, recognition and growth of our professionals. We don’t want to be just another line on your CV — we want you to live a Lifetime Experience with us. We invest in training and certifications that confirm your real progression, in promoting a healthy work-life balance, and in offering benefits that impact your personal life and career. #welcometoyourfuture What we’re looking for: - Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field. - 5 years of experience in IT infrastructure, Cloud and DevOps, with hands-on AWS in production environments. - Expert, hands-on knowledge of Kubernetes, including deploying, operating, upgrading and troubleshooting clusters in production. - Strong experience with AWS EKS and broad exposure to AWS services (VPC, IAM, EC2, RDS, S3, Load Balancers, Route 53, CloudWatch). - Solid networking knowledge in cloud environments: VPC design, routing, security groups, VPN, Transit Gateway or Direct Connect. - Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and CI/CD pipelines, preferably with GitLab. - Experience with containerization and microservices architectures (Docker, Helm, GitOps tools such as ArgoCD or Flux). - Security knowledge of Linux and Windows systems and supporting infrastructure. - Experience with database management and scalability (MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, MongoDB). - Experience with monitoring, troubleshooting and root-cause analysis in development, test and production environments. - Fluent English. - Availability to work in a hybrid model, with 1 to 2 days per week at the client’s office in Porto. Being Affinity • #Affinity – Creating close and empathetic relationships with colleagues, clients and candidates (and not just with technologies, languages and platforms). Team spirit and good vibes; • #Ambition – Wanting to do more and better. A drive to exceed expectations and evolve personally and professionally; • #Action – Energy to make things happen. Showing proactiveness and initiative; • #Learning – Willingness to grow individually and collectively and to become an expert in the tech market; • #Assertiveness – Transparent and honest communication, always with constructive feedback. Your #LifetimeExperience • Taking part in national and international projects in a company based on personal relationships, simplicity and efficiency, with a disruptive approach to the tech market; • Accessing a career and training plan tailored to your performance and interests; • Being part of a welcoming, trustworthy, respectful and informal environment; • Joining our Affinity Communities (sports, tech, hobbies, etc.) and actively participating in social and environmental responsibility projects; • Taking advantage of a range of benefits, partnerships, discounts, events and internal dynamics. Beyond your professional satisfaction, we want to offer you memorable moments of leisure and connection, worthy of an Affinity experience. Join the Experience! Send us your application and take the opportunity to get to know us and follow along at: https://www.instagram.com/affinityportugal/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/2701281/admin/ https://twitter.com/WithAffinity