Middleware Operations Engineer - Redis

Senior Middleware Operations Engineer — Redis Platform Imagine working at a company where your growth is supported every day, even from a distance. Where you are more than just a number: you are part of a constantly expanding team. We are more than 2,430 Primers around the world, and we want one more: YOU. We are looking for a Senior Middleware Operations Engineer to join a challenging technology project, operating and industrializing Redis services for current and future application needs in a critical production environment. 🎯 Your role - Operate Redis platforms across development, simulation, user acceptance testing and production environments. - Manage health checks, configuration, lifecycle activities, patching and recovery. - Design, deploy and support highly available Redis Sentinel services. - Contribute to the evaluation of Redis Cluster and enterprise options according to capacity, resilience, security and support needs. - Own monitoring for quorum, replication, synchronization, failover, memory, persistence, disk usage, latency and connections. - Provide L2/L3 incident response, root-cause analysis and remediation. - Automate installation, configuration, validation and recurring tasks using Ansible, Docker/container tooling, Git and scripts. - Apply security controls covering TLS, authentication, ACLs, key-prefix namespaces, secrets and certificates. - Prepare changes, rollback plans, implementation evidence, runbooks and audit-ready documentation, presenting changes to CAB/PVC when required. - Coordinate architecture standardization, onboarding and migration activities with the relevant teams. 🔎 What we are looking for - 3+ years of experience in middleware, platform, SRE or production operations in critical environments. - Expert-level Redis administration skills covering Sentinel, replication, failover and recovery. - Strong expertise in Redis performance, memory, persistence, disk and capacity troubleshooting. - Strong Linux and Docker/container administration skills. - Practical experience with TLS, authentication, ACLs, certificates and secure connectivity. - Experience with monitoring and observability for Redis availability and health. - Practical automation experience with Ansible, Git and Shell or Python. - Strong incident, problem management and service restoration experience in critical RUN environments. - Experience preparing controlled changes, rollback plans and implementation evidence. - Ability to work autonomously in L2/L3 support, communicate service impact and coordinate escalations. - Strong operational documentation and handover practices. - English at C1 level. ⭐ Nice to have - French at A1+ level. 📍 Opportunity details Location: Portugal — Lisbon Experience: 3+ years of relevant experience. Working model: Hybrid Working hours: 09:00–18:00. On-call: Required. Salary Package & Benefits: €1,200 to €2,000 (salary base) + Food Allowance + Flex Benefits 🚀 What we offer At PrimeIT, we want you to keep growing beyond your current project. You will have access to Prime Academy, our internal mobility programme Prime Mobility and Prime Health, alongside continuous support from our team. All of this within an international organization, with projects across different sectors and opportunities for technological and professional growth! Want to be part of this challenge? Send me your CV and get to know PrimeIT.