Devops Engineer
Location: Porto/ Portugal (Hybrid/Remote)
About ACD/Labs:
For over three decades, ACD/Labs has been supporting the scientific R&D community with software built by fellow scientists along with a team of more than 200 dedicated and passionate people, including Ph
D-level scientists and specialists in informatics and a wide range of chemical disciplines. Our mission is to empower scientists in their research, accelerate innovation, and help achieve faster results.
Role Overview
As a Dev
Ops Engineer at ACD/Labs, you will be part of a growing team responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining automation solutions across the software lifecycle. Your work will focus on deployment automation,
-
- code, secure configuration management, and enabling Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) practices for both
- premise and
- based software products.
You will work closely with the Dev
Ops Architect/Team Lead and
- functional teams to help transform how ACD/Labs develops, installs, and delivers its products — with an initial focus on distributed heterogeneous systems and cloud infrastructure, eventual involvement in secure SDLC, and Dev
Ops modernization
- wide.
Responsibilities
Promote the adoption of Dev
Ops principles across Development, Information Technology and Professional Services teams
Create and maintain modular automated CI/CD pipelines for build, test, deployment and release
Implement systems to automate and standardize package management processes for desktop products and
- party modules.
Develop and maintain configurations to securely manage distributed
- premise and cloud (AWS/EKS) environments using
-
- code tools such as Ansible and Terraform
Develop scripts and tools to support automated lifecycle management of distributed environments running under both Windows and Linux (using Bash, Python and Windows Powershell), including cases where the target environments are
- gapped or have no/limited outbound Internet access
Implement and maintain container platforms using Kubernetes (on-premises and in the cloud, e. g. AWS EKS)
Ensure that appropriate tooling is used for managing secrets in CI/CD processes
Collaborate with developers and with the IT team to integrate build/test tools, automate verification processes, and improve release velocity
Ensure that security measures, compliance, and best practices laid down by the Director of IT and/or the Cybersecurity Analyst are respected and actively followed
Collaborate with Development to ensure
- hosted environments are scalable, resilient, and auditable.
Ensure that environments managed through automation support
- tenancy, observability, and configuration isolation.
Select and configure monitoring solutions and custom dashboards for system and application health, which identify both system bottlenecks and production issues
Actively troubleshoot any issues that arise during testing and production
Management of Dev
Ops tooling, including existing tools such as Git
Hub, Git
Lab, SVN, Kubernetes Clusters, Jenkins and Nexus
Participate in the incremental development of an internal Developer Platform
Maintain clear technical documentation for automated tools, deployment procedures, and operational workflows.
Provide onboarding and ongoing support for consumers of solutions developed by the Dev
Ops team
Participate in code reviews and
- functional technical discussions
Collaboration
The Dev
Ops Engineer will work closely with
Professional Services (implementation and support)
R&D teams (developers, testers, architects)
Security & Compliance
Internal IT and Customer Engineering teams
Qualifications and skills
Essential
3+ years of experience in a Dev
Ops, build/release, or
- focused engineering role.
Use of Git for source control
Familiarity with a range of CI/CD tools such as Jenkins/Team
City/Azure Dev
Ops, Git
Hub Actions, Git
Lab CI, Octopus Deploy
Understanding of environment configuration and basic networking concepts.
Hands-on experience with at least one scripting language (Power
Shell, Bash, Python, etc. )
Knowledge of containerization (e. g. Docker, Docker Compose, Kubernetes)
Experience of managing cloud infrastructure with one of the major providers (AWS, Azure or GCP)
Experience automating deployments in Windows and/or Linux environments
A love of
- solving
A commitment to widening your skills base in response to the needs of the business
Effective communication with development, operations, and security teams.
Ability to advocate for security best practices in a Dev
Ops culture.
Willingness and ability to document processes clearly
Desirable
Experience working in regulated or
- sensitive environments (e. g. pharma, biotech).
Management of
- premises Kubernetes and AWS EKS clusters
Familiarity with package management tools such as Nexus/Artifactory
Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform, Ansible and Cloud
Formation
Git
Ops tools for Kubernetes such as Flux/Argo
CD
Secrets management in CI/CD pipelines using Vault or similar
API security knowledge (e. g. , OAuth, JWT, API gateways, rate limiting)
Exposure to Mongo
DB, Postgre
SQL, Keycloak, Active
MQ, or Tomcat is a plus.
To apply for this position, submit your resume and cover letter on our career page at
Inclusion and Equal Opportunity Employment
At ACD/Labs, we embrace diversity and inclusion for innovation and growth. We are committed to building inclusive teams and an equitable workplace for our employees to bring their true selves to work. We are taking actions to tackle issues of inequity and systemic bias to support our diverse talent, clients, and communities.
We also strive to provide an accessible candidate experience for our prospective employees with different abilities. Please let us know if you need any accommodations during the recruitment process.
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- know about our career opportunities at ACD/Labs by joining our
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