DevOps/ Site Reliability Engineer Lisboa

DevOps/ Site Reliability Engineer
Lisboa
Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

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Manager Recruitment Portugal @ Gapstars | Hiring in Lisbon, Portugal!

About Gapstars

Gapstars is a Netherlands-based software development services provider that builds remote, agile teams in Sri Lanka and Portugal for innovative tech companies. Today, we are home to 220+ Tech
Stars and innovative minds, turning scalable software into performance products that shape the future. Our partners are highly ambitious tech companies that are looking to conquer their respective markets.

About the Client

We're looking for talent to strengthen our team of software engineers with site reliability practices on our AWS and Vercel cloud platforms. As a site reliability engineer, you'll work together with the software engineers to ensure that the software applications run fast and reliably while maintaining observability and alerting.

Hard Skills

Proven experience deploying and managing applications on AWS, including:

• Auto-scaling and load balancing
• Deployment via EC2, Fargate, ECS, and/or Elastic Beanstalk
• Infrastructure configuration using Terraform (Ia
  C) for services such as IAM, RDS, Open
  Search, and Elasti
  Cache
• Familiarity with AWS security best practices, including OWASP, AWS Well-Architected Framework, and vulnerability scanning
• Cost and performance tuning of cloud services (preferred)

Experience deploying and running applications on Vercel (preferred)

Implementation of observability tools across the tech stack:

• Application Performance Monitoring (APM) tools like New Relic or App
  Signal
• Log collection and dashboarding using tools like Cloud
  Watch
• Structured logging practices, such as using lograge (preferred)

Experience facilitating CI/CD pipelines, including:

• Building and deploying Docker containers
• Configuration and management of Git
  Lab CI pipelines (preferred)
• Experience with online schema migrations (preferred)

Establishing and maintaining processes for incident handling and prevention:

• Configuration of alerting systems
• Managing
  - call rotations and rulesets
• Conducting
  - mortems and following up on mitigation actions

Hands-on experience implementing fixes to improve performance and reliability in applications (preferred)

A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a relevant field, or equivalent practical experience

We value not just technical ability, but also the mindset and approach to collaboration and responsibility. The ideal candidate:

• Prioritizes user experience and treats system reliability as a core part of the product.
• Understands that reliability isn’t separate from the user experience—it’s essential to it.
• Handles sensitive information with integrity and maintains strict confidentiality.
• Takes ownership of the existing architecture and works to improve it incrementally, rather than rebuilding from scratch.
• Collaborates closely with other engineers and actively supports their growth.

"Gapstars is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate based on race, national origin, gender, disability, or age. Your personal information collected during the application process is handled following our privacy policy and used exclusively for recruitment and hiring purposes only"

Seniority level

• Entry level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

• IT Services and IT Consulting

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